Cities as Sites for the Production of Meaning – Knowledge Systems, Care, and the Politics of Placemaking

What does it mean to rethink the city—following Felwine Sarr’s notion—as a “site for the production of meaning”? How can African cities be conceived beyond colonial planning logics and shaped through locally grounded knowledge systems to enable plural, situated futures? Carole Diop, Nzinga Biegueng Mboup (Worofila), and Dominique Petit-Frère (Limbo Accra) speak with Melissa Makele (ARCH+) about digital archives, the reconstruction of material and immaterial urban histories, bioclimatic architecture, and care as a lived spatial practice.