Ruth-Anne N.A.S. Richardson is a practising Ghanaian architect and principal of StudioRED in Accra. The studio focuses on the processes of research, experimentation (of concepts and methods) and design within architectural place-making. She is a researcher and academic tutor, working with architecture students - of Central University, Accra and the KNUST, Kumasi – and with academic / public events at the AFI. As an architect, she identifies with the notion that architecture carries a civic responsibility to enhance our experiences and shape our individual and collective memories of place.

Nana is a Ghanaian born architect, researcher and writer. She is a co-founder of Studio NYALI, an architecture, design and research practice based in London. She teaches at Architecture Association and Kingston School of Art in London and has lectured widely in the U.K. and abroad including as a critic at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Studio NYALI completed the ArchiAfrika Pavilion at the European Cultural Centre’s Time Space Existence exhibition for the 17th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice. She is currently working on The Course of Empire: A Compound House Typology with a book to be published in 2023.

Sarah has worked as an architectural researcher and designer. She has collaborated with many research and design institutions and practices, most recently through her multidisciplinary design firm spaceKIOSK; as an educator within GSA Unit 18 at the Graduate School of Architecture in Johannesburg (GSA); and as research-illustrator within the Archive of Forgetfulness. She holds a Master’s degree in Architecture from the University of the Witwatersrand. She joins the AFI as an Associate, working remotely from Johannesburg.

Isaac’s work questions cultural separation through architectural reimagination. His work examines narratives of liminality, negotiation and hybridity, drawing on the adjacent fields of cultural, critical and race studies and bringing those narratives into architecture. He is interested in ‘Black’ identities beyond conventional narrow racial binaries and definitions, and in how such identities may find expression in new (digital) forms, visualisations and spatialities.

Nzinga Biegueng Mboup is a Senegalese-Cameroonian architect who has been in Dakar for the last five years. After graduating from the University of Pretoria she worked for two years in Johannesburg, before continuing with a Master’s in Architecture at the University of Westminster in London. She then spent three years working at the renowned office of Sir David Adjaye. In 2018, she created WOROFILA, an architectural practice specialized in construction using earth and organically sourced materials, with the aim of promoting an architecture that is durable and in harmony with the climate. She has also been leading two research projects called HABITER DAKAR and DAKARMORPHOSE.

Sarah is an architect and design researcher from South Africa. She holds a Master’s degree in Architecture from the Graduate School of Architecture in Johannesburg. She has worked for some of the most interesting and promising emerging architecture practices, including Local Studio, UrbanWorks and Counterspace. At the AFI, she performs the role of social media specialist, as well as being part of the research team.

Olasumbo is a vibrant creative who sees life as a canvas and an institution. She believes in exploring and redefining the context of creativity. She works as a Research Facilitator with a multidisciplinary firm; African Contemporary Institute of Design (ACID). She is an alumna of the Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg. Having trained in Nigeria, South Africa and the Netherlands (@ihserasmusuni), Olasumbo is passionate about interstitials and in-betweens of informality, social justice and surveillance. Olasumbo also volunteers as a Project Manager at Slum Art Foundation (@slumart1) where she mentor's children alongside other art enthusiasts between ages 6-17 using art.