Halima Haruna is a designer from Nigeria, currently completing her MA in Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has a particular interest in African audiovisual cultures, speculative finance and the real estate industry, nature and Blackness, citizen science, the politics of translation, collective performance and sociality, and meta-fictioning. As part of her research, she investigates these topics through video, performance, design and writing. Haruna has worked as a Junior Design Architect at 3ADB Studio in Nigeria and taken part in exhibitions, such as sorryyoufeeluncomfortable, ti. at Many Studios, Glasgow.
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During the fellowship, Haruna has been analyzing and documenting how direct investments from East Asia and internally generated state revenue, reorganizes the urban fabric within Lagos. By exploring socioecologies and psychologies alike, she makes apparent differing ways in which global capitalism reconfigures translocal spatial dynamics. She has been holding interviews with both private and public stakeholders in Lagos, and civic and social organizations who are fighting against the displacement of communities as a result of these projects.
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