Table of Contents

Kerstin Pinther, Larissa Forster and Christian Hanussek - In Afropolis; Christian Hanussek and Salifou Lindou - Quel est l'endroit ideal?; Edgar Pieterse - Alternative City Futures; AbdouMaliq Simone - People as Infrastructure - Intersecting Fragments in Johannesburg; On Informal Architectures - A Discussion between David Adjaye and Finn Williams; Regina Gockede - The Architect as a Colonial Technocrat of Dependent Modernisation - Ernst May's Plans for; Kampala; Karola Schlegelmilch - Architectures of Particularities - Photographs and a Discussion between Karola; Schlegelmilch and Christian Hanussek; Marie-Helene Gutberlet - Cities and Cinemas - Fragments of an African History of the Urban in Cinema and of; Cinema as an Urban Matter

About the Author

Larissa Forster is a research associate at the Morphomata International Centre for Advanced Studies Genesis, Dynamics and Mediality of Cultural Figurations, University of Cologne. Her doctoral thesis dealt with postcolonial landscapes of memory. She has spent long periods in Namibia and South Africa for her research, which focuses primarily on museum studies, visual and material culture, and the history and cultures of remembrance in southern Africa. She also co-curated the exhibition Namibia - Deutschland: eine geteilte Geschichte: Widerstand, Gewalt, Erinnerung shown in the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne and the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin (2004/2005). Christian Hanussek, born in Frankfurt am Main in 1953, is an artist, author and curator currently based in Berlin. He studied art and art theory at the Stadelschule in Frankfurt and at ateliers 63 in Haarlem (NL). His art often combines three-dimensional painting with film and video, and his works include a number of permanent installations. Since 2001, he has published a series of articles on art from Africa. In 2005/2006, he curated his project Gleichzeitig in Africa... with exhibitions, seminars and discussions in several German cities. Kerstin Pinther is a Professor for African Art at the Department of Art History, Freie Universitat Berlin. Until early 2010, she was a research fellow at Goethe University Frankfurt/Main. Within her general research fields of photography and visual cultures in West Africa, she is presently focusing on architecture and urbanity in Africa, and on specific issues related to Africa's contemporary art and cultural production in a global context. Her most recent publication is Wege durch Accra. Stadtbilder, Praxen und Diskurse (2010). Kerstin Pinther curated the exhibition Black Paris. Kunst und Geschichte einer schwarzen Diaspora (2006). She has spent periods of research in Accra, Paris, Lagos, and Cairo.