Table of Contents

Flow of Forms / Forms of Flow. Design Histories between Africa and Europe; Forms of Modernity; Transform(n)ation; Forms of Cooperation / Participation; Material Morphosis; Speculative Forms; Ladi Kwali, Michael Cardew and a Tangled Story of African Studio Pottery; Design, Development and its Legacies: A Perspective on 1970s Design Culture and its Anthropological Intents; Between Favela Chic and Autonomy. Design in Latin America; The Politics of Design in Postcolonial Kenya; On the Flows of Architectural Design: The Context and Making of an Exhibition; Jules Wokam's Aesthetics of Permeability; Tracing the Quiet Cultural Activism: Laduma Ngxokolo and Black Coffee; Cheick Diallo: Design between Politics and Poetics; Designers' and Artists' Biographies; Authors' Biographies.

About the Author

Kerstin Pinther is a professor of African art history at the art history department of Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, Germany. Her research focuses on contemporary art, architecture, urbanism, and design in Africa and its diaspora. Her most recent publication looked at "New Spaces for Negotiating Art (and) Histories in Africa." As a curator, she organized the exhibition Afropolis. City, Media, Art (2010-2012).

Alexandra Weigand is a designer and art historian who works interdisciplinarily as a curator, lecturer, and researcher. Her exhibition projects include Hit the Future_Design Beyond the Borders and Hit the Future_Metropolitan Design for Munich's design weeks in 2014 and 2015. She is currently a senior researcher at the art history department of Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, Germany, with a focus on design and urbanism in Africa.