RESEARCH

AFO’s interests transect the following research and practice based concerns:

1. Interrogating and communicating architectural, spatial and material genealogies of conflict.

2. Understanding, communicating and acting upon problematic and/or productive ecological interactions between the man-made and natural environments.

3. Locating and promoting architectures of self determination.

4. Cultivating architecture as a more legible, accessible public service using appropriate technologies, communication, dissemination, pedagogical and public engagement strategies.



PUBLICATIONS

I am currently transforming my PhD by Design Thesis into an architectural monograph and exhibition. Below is a list of selected publications.






︎ ‘The revolution will not be agronomised: exhuming architectures of ecocidal and genocidal repair’, presented at AHRA International Conference, 2023

︎ ‘Liberias’ Open-door; enframing the geographical imaginaries of extraction’, presented at The Coloniality of Infrastructure Eurafrican Legacies Conference, University of Basel, 2021

︎ ‘Indigenous easements: inhabiting the urbanising vision of Rwanda Nouveau’ presented at Racial Infrastructures conference, Edinburgh University, 2021

︎ ‘Re-rendering Rwandan Urbanism’,
presented at Conflicted, Narratives, Future Trajectories symposium at the Cambridge School of Architecture, 2019



︎ ‘Indigenous Perspectives: The Post-Conflict Landscapes of Rwanda’, in Footprint’, Delft Architecture Theory Journal on Conflict, Space and Architecture’ , Eds. M Schoonderbeek and Malkit Shoshan, 2017

︎ ‘Drone Ranger: Complexity and contradiction in Rwanda’, The Architectural Review, December, 2016

︎ ‘Extreme Citizenship: Reconceptualizing Dwelling within the Landscapes of Rwanda.” in Lobby, Eds. R Ramos, M Araguez, S Giamarelos, L Narvaez, M S Rammohan, and J Taylor-Foster, Bartlett School of Architecture, 2015

︎ ‘Journey with Maps A Cultural Emergency Project in Freetown, Sierra Leone’ MAS Context, ‘Legacy’, 2014

︎’Footnotes on Kimisagara’, Volume, No.40
‘Architecture of Peace Reloaded’.
Eds. B Cormier, 2014

︎’A view from Freetown’, The Architectural Review, April 2014

︎ ‘Rwanda Nouveau: Remodelling a Nation’, The Architectural Review, June 2014

︎ ‘Strengthening Kigali’s Re-development Through Weak Urbanism’, SLUM Lab, ETH Zurich D-ARCH Journal, 2014

︎‘Empire of Good Practice; Legacies of Neo-Colonialism in East African Architecture.’ In Afritecture: Building Social Change. Eds. Andres Lepik, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2013

︎ ‘Territories of Practice, Kimisagara Community Center, Rwanda,’ in MAS Context, Boundary, 2013

︎ ‘Remaking the city’, Cityscapes, African Centre for Cities, Issue No. 3, 2012

︎ ‘City within the White Lines’ in Critical Reflections on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship & Space, Peter Alegi eds. Michigan Press.

︎ ‘The Re-feudalization of public space’, Architectural Association of Ireland Journal, Building Material No. 19, 2009


EXHIBITIONS


2023


︎ ‘The Earth is a Tree Full of Poems Like Mushrooms of the Air’, USA
2022

︎ Pravo Ljudski Human rights Film Festival, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

2019

︎‘The Collective City’ at Seoul Architecture and Urbanism Biennale

2018

︎ Cork Film Festival, Ireland

︎ ‘Swamp Pavillion’ at Venice Architecture Biennale

︎ Cinema Du Reel, International Film Festival, France

2016

︎
Mediations Art & Design Agency and Participation in Public Space, Royal College of Art

2014/15

︎ ‘Adhocracy’, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens

︎ AAI Awards, Irish Architectural Archive, Dublin

︎ ‘See You in The Hague by Stroom, Netherlands

2011/12

︎ ‘The Architecture of Peace’, w/Archis, Rwanda

︎ ‘The Good Cause: the Architecture of Peace’ exhibition’ CCA, Canada

2009

︎ ‘Glorius Flotsam’, CCA, Derry, N.Ireland


︎  Darklight Film Festival, Dublin