Speculations on the post-neoliberal city: Imagining spaces of future settlement

This studio takes two threads of design research my studios have engaged over the last five years—one documentary (subject/geography), the other speculative (method)—and looks to intersect them for the purposes of imagining novel formats of possible future settlement that might emerge when urban design and planning move beyond our present, predominantly politicoeconomic (neoliberal) approach to shaping contemporary urban form. Specifically, this studio will endeavor to critically and imaginatively speculate upon the nature of public space, circa 2050, in a selection of future cities across the African continent. Notably, the cities in question do not yet exist, nor do many of their future residents. However, the bio-regions and cultures into which they will eventually be deployed do exist—for now.