Chairs:

Kuukuwa O Manful – Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, United States of America

Emmanuel Kusi Ofori-Sarpong– SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom

Copyright: Emmanuel Kusi Ofori-Sarpong

Presentations:

– ‘Informal’ Modernisms: Urban Design, Planning Narratives, and New Cities

Emmanuel Ofori-Sarpong

Kuukuwa O Manful

– Between the musseque and the Neighbourhood Unit: spotting «compagnons de route» architectures in Luanda (1961-1975)         

Ana Vaz-Milheiro

Leonor Matos Silva

– Narratives-within a narration: Unraveling the Complexities of Modern African Architectures and Urbanities    

Ntetleng Orepa Mosidi

– Palmas (TO): contradictions among the ways of living in a new city’s block

Mariana Verdolin dos Santos

– Socialist Practice of Modern Planning in the 1950s’ China: the case study of Minhang Satellite Town and the associated rural planning project                                                                     

Pengcheng Zeng

– The Work Encampment: A Utopia by Rodrigo Lefèvre  

Ana Carolina Buim Azevedo Marques

Ana Paula Koury