Through a public performance reading, Dr Ngumi will explore the nostalgia for villages of home, belonging, security, purpose and community in the seeming sprawl and multipurposeness of African urban spaces. Using Nairobi and Johannesburg as examples, she will explore the adaptability of these intangible desires into the structures and logistics of contemporary African urban design.
Dr Njoki Ngumi is a Kenyan gypsy general practitioner, storyteller and member of the Nest Collective – where she is one of 12 thinkers, makers and believers living and working in Nairobi creating multidisciplinary work that explores their modern identities, reimagining their pasts and remixing their futures. She is also Head of Learning and Development for HEVA - Africa’s first creative economy catalyst fund, which invests in the transformative social and economic potential of the creative economy in the East African region.
This event is part of a creative exchange between Kirsten Doermann and Solam Mkhabela (University of the Witwatersrand , School of Architecture and Planning) and Nairobi-based storyteller, Dr Njoki Ngumi (The Nest Collective). The exchange will feed into the “African Mobilities” exhibition project. The “African Mobilities” exhibition is a collaboration between Architekturmuseum der TU München and the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and is curated by Dr. Mpho Matsipa (Wits City Institute). This initiative is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation. The project was developed with the support of the Goethe-Institut which will also aid the exhibition's planned tour on the African continent.
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