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Hot Air Balloons

Ingesting Architectures تربة (soil, ground, earth, dust)

Ingesting Architectures تربة (soil, ground, earth, dust)

Hot Air Balloons
Hot Air Balloons

Sumayya Vally

Sumayya Vally (b. 1990, South Africa) carries obsession for Johannesburg and her work around narrative, identity and memory in the city have admitted her into a host of conceptual and investigatory projects, including a position as assistant curator and film producer for La Biennale di Venezia 2014 (South African Pavilion). Sumayya has recently been selected as a finalist for the Civitella Ranieri Foundation architecture residency prize (2019) and was a finalist for the Rolex Mentorship and Protege award in the 2018/2019 cycle to be mentored by Sir David Adjaye. She currently teaches at the Graduate School of Architecture, as Unit Leader of Unit 12, which focuses on finding design expression for issues of identity and contested territory. She is presently based between Joburg and London as the lead architect for the 2020 Serpentine Pavilion.

Johannesburg

18:00 - 18:15

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