Huda Tayob

South Africa

Architect/Researcher
 
Huda Tayob is a South African architect, theorist and architectural historian. Her research focuses on minor, migrant and subaltern architectures. She is co-curator of the open access curriculum Racespacearchitecture.org, and lead curator of the digital platform the Archive of Forgetfulness. She exhibited at the 18th International architecture exhibition in Venice (2023), with a project titled Index of Edges, which traces watery archives, methods and stories of migrant architectures along east African coastal edges, from Cape Town, South Africa to Port Said, Egypt. She is currently working on a manuscript project titled 'Opaque Architectures:Black Markets as Infrastructures of Care' - a project which draws out trans-national sites established by African migrants, as sites of possibility.
 
Opaque Architectures is a research and writing project which draws together the everyday life of architectures and urban environments, with postcolonial, decolonial and subaltern studies literature and Black studies frameworks to ask how we might reconsider sites and spaces inhabited by marginalised African populations. At Vila Sul, I would like to extend and develop the theoretical framework for this writing project, by engaging with a range of global south scholars to ask what a ‘sustainable urbanism’ might look like when foregrounding marginalised and migrant populations, amidst forced displacement increasing linked to climate crises and ongoing high levels of urban violence? How might we develop practices and theories for understanding overlooked urban processes? How do ‘black urbanisms’ speak to the fungible and fugitive practices of making an urban life, across the globe, within and beyond the south?
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Grantee under the "Rethinking the South - Repensando Sul" program from the KfW Foundation. Instagram: