Bantu.Lab

creative collective • black spatial futurisms • space • architecture • urbanism 2020 GPS Projects "Gqom Spatial Narratives" Podcast out now 👇🏾

[Bantu.Lab @bantu_lab]

Introducing "Ikhon' Into ekhalayo" podcast series where we investigate Gqom music culture through the lense of Black space, Architecture & Urbanism. Episode 01 introduces who and what BantuLab is and reflects on the work we did in Umlazi

Episode 01 link 🔗https://t.co/QfvPFdYdKr

[Bantu.Lab @bantu_lab]

We’re proud to finally share the report of our Gqom Spatial Invegistation, supported by @goethejoburg
Click the link in our bio to access the report which includes the interactive mapping and soundscaping we did in Umlazi, Durban 2020

[Bantu.Lab @bantu_lab]

@logosMLW Thank you 🙏🏾

[Logos Open Culture @logosMLW]

This is cool.

[Bantu.Lab @bantu_lab]

We have a new podcast out with @GumsHeartbeat who shared his experiences of the gqom culture in Durban. He took us through his perspective of the evolution of gqom through fashion, memory and space.

[Bantu.Lab @bantu_lab]

@dj_cndo reflecting on a time when she came back from groove on Sunday morning and rode in the same taxi with her aunt, who’d just knocked off from a night shift.

Listen here for more of her story https://t.co/t0xcQbgOSa

[ogoegbunam @_ogoegbunam_]

Five min into this event and one of FEW Black female full professors in the UK (at University of Oxford) was already talking about how her research ideas have been stolen, she's been plagiarized, her knowledge contributions erased, and all has impacted her career development.

[Bantu.Lab @bantu_lab]

🚨🚨🚨Our second episode of Ikhon' into ekhalayo Podcast is up featuring the legendary DJ CNDO.

We spoke about the challenges of being a women in accessing space and resources, how she navigated it and built her career in spite of it all
Link to episode https://t.co/PLIJrJTy6I

[Bantu.Lab @bantu_lab]

@MsNyamburah I’m not sure. @sacsc2020 will the sessions be recorded?

[Bantu.Lab @bantu_lab]

BantuLab is presenting this Friday 4 September at the #SACSC2020 on the panel “Navigating African Cities: Gender, Identity and Mobility”

Our paper looks at the intersection of identity, taxis and women’s participation in the economy of gqom

[Bantu.Lab @bantu_lab]

@_ogoegbunam_ Thanks for sharing 🙌🏾

[ogoegbunam @_ogoegbunam_]

@bantu_lab thought of your group when reading this piece just now (thinking about histories of laboratories in Africa): Shadreck Chirikure, "The Metalworker, the Potter, and the Pre-European African" Laboratoryhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zbf7WMpLs8DMUvobAcmWvesVmk5tCyy5/view

[Bantu.Lab @bantu_lab]

@twitter how do we pin someone else’s tweet? 🥺

[alchemist @ZaziCooks]

I’m perpetually intrigued by how young black creatives pay forward their passion and know-how back into the community. I’ve never been an architecture or urban planning enthusiast but the @bantu_lab podcast I listened to today has-no cap-moved me! Yhuu you guys have a fan in me👐🏾

[Bantu.Lab @bantu_lab]

@Phume_gee BantuLab is the future ✊🏾 and the future is multidisciplinary. Welcome to the family. Thank you so much for listening 😭❤️

[alchemist @ZaziCooks]

I’m perpetually intrigued by how young black creatives pay forward their passion and know-how back into the community. I’ve never been an architecture or urban planning enthusiast but the @bantu_lab podcast I listened to today has-no cap-moved me! Yhuu you guys have a fan in me👐🏾

[Bantu.Lab @bantu_lab]

We cant wait to share the next episode of the Khon’intekhalayo series featuring a trailblazing woman in the Durban house scene 🙌🏾

[Bantu.Lab @bantu_lab]

“There’s nothing about what I’m doing to get paid that is giving me the skills to go and contribute to where I’m from. And where I’m from needs my help”

Khon’Intekhalayo Podcast👇🏾

https://t.co/tt9uMlwOl7

[Bantu.Lab @bantu_lab]

“I don’t see myself in these books, I don’t see myself in the person teaching me; I don’t see myself in the curriculum. And in the work I do after”

When is the right time to pick up the conversation of decolonising education ? 👀

Part 2 of Khon’intekhalayo
link in bio

[Bantu.Lab @bantu_lab]

26 June 2019 en route to the studio of gqom originator @djLusiman. We named our podcast series “Khon’intekhayo” to reflect our mission to locate the sound and how gqom spatialises itself.
Listen here to reflections on the process of the design exchange

https://t.co/pce0RiBFY2…

[Bantu.Lab @bantu_lab]

@_ogoegbunam_ Thank you so much for the love sis. There are so many more stories to tell and new palaces to explore in this way. The decolonization agenda is clear and alive ✊🏾✨