By Iminza Keboge
Published June 18, 2019
If you are an artist, designer, technologist or entrepreneur working in any part of Africa, you have till June 23, 2019 to apply for participation in a four-day meeting on the theme, Sense the City.
The meeting, dubbed African Crossroads 2019: Sense the City, is expected to bring together participants from all over Africa to Mombasa on the Indian Ocean coast to ‘connect, collaborate, and explore the diversity of African cities in all its multi-sensory aspects’.
This second edition of African Crossroads gathering is expected to not only ‘address various questions in relation to the urbanisation of the African continent and its consequences on our perceptions’, but also ‘consider the force of art for civic space, develop hybrid thinking: this a unique opportunity to showcase creative views on urban innovations. How do the African cities of today and tomorrow sound, taste, feel or move, and how do these cities sense us in return via the increasing development of new technologies?’
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Saying the meeting says it will consist of ‘three days of round tables, artistic exhibitions, workshops, product displays and talks, and concluding with an open day during which the community will share its reflections with the public’, the organisers say the gathering, that shall bring together art and culture community, shall ‘address various questions in relation to the urbanisation of the African continent and its consequences on our perceptions’.
“We will feature alternative narratives, consider the force of art for civic space, develop hybrid thinking: this a unique opportunity to showcase creative views on urban innovations. How do the African cities of today and tomorrow sound, taste, feel or move, and how do these cities sense us in return via the increasing development of new technologies?” the organisers say.
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“This gathering strives to spark deep discussions about the latest inventions and innovations in science, art, and technology. The purpose of this community and its gathering is to take the multi-disciplinary discussions into actions to bring structural changes across the African continent,” a media statement signed by Didier Lebon of African Crossroads says.
“African Crossroads”, the organisers say, “is a community of future-oriented African thinkers and doers which meets annually to exchange and critically reflect on the most cutting-edge entrepreneurial, artistic, and technological developments occurring in Africa. By bringing together African artists, computer scientists, designers, researchers, philosophers, entrepreneurs, and more, African Crossroads creates a cross-continent, multidisciplinary community working to exchange knowledge and positively shape the future of African societies.”
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Interested?
Apply online at africancrossroads.org/call-for-applications/#call.
African Crossroads is supported by HIVOS, a Dutch development agency.
