Urban+/Heritage Talk 08: Killian Ó Dochartaigh

Freetown’s growth follows the coast and devours its sand — a heritage of extraction inherited from the colonial experiments that once mapped the city through segregation and disease control. Today, its shifting shorelines feed a speculative urbanism built on what the sea yields and erases. At John Obey beach, where tides, labour, and longing converge, sand becomes both livelihood and loss, the measure of a city remaking itself grain by grain. Through voices of miners, migrants, and returnees, this talk reflects on what it means to inherit a city that consumes its own ground — its coast, its memory, its future.

*Cover Image: Sand mining along coastal Freetown. Image by Nike Duff and Killian Ó Dochartaigh, 2022

Programme:

12 - 1pm: Urbanism+/Heritage Talk with Dr Killian Ó Dochartaigh - "Inheriting the Coast: Sand, Drift and the Making of Free Town" (School of Arts Library)

2pm - 3pm: A curator's talk with Dr Killian Ó Dochartaigh and Ed Lawrenson (RIBA), https://www.riba.org/explore/exhibitions/hill-station/

4 - 5.30pm: Flim Screening of "Hill Station" and panel discussion with Ed Lawrenson and Killian Ó Dochartaigh (School of Arts Library)

THIS IS A HYBRID EVENT. Directions for in-person participation and the Zoom Link for online participation are in the registration confirmation email.

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