How can creativity be a vehicle to activate new dimensions of spatial experience, and thereby of reality?
The practitioners contributing to this inquiry have explored a range of mediums – including (as shown on this page) performance, sonic intervention, architectural insertions and deletions – to reshape how people occupy, interact and identify with space.
The image above is of Megumi Matsubara and Otieno Kota collaborating on STRA | 2011, a project that roused unexpected narratives of urban landscape in the Kibera district of Nairobi. An artist and also a practicing architect, Matsubara works across a range of mediums to create spatial compositions that reveal new facets of specific environmental conditions, heightening awareness and enabling new forms of participation. (photo by Anthony Wachira, courtesy of Megumi Matsubara)
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ADDITIONAL PRACTITIONERS AND APPROACHES CONTRIBUTING TO THIS INQUIRY INCLUDE:
Megumi Matsubara and Nástio Mosquito | MEGUMI MATSUBARA & NASTIO MOSQUITO | 2013
(photo by Kenshu Shintsubo, courtesy of Megumi Matsubara)
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Karmen Franinovic | KONTACT | 2003
(photo courtesy of Karmen Franinovic)
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Corporación Cultural Amereida | CIUDAD ABIERTA (OPEN CITY) | 1973 to present
