CAVE_BUREAU

WHERE Nairobi, Kenya
PEOPLE Kabage Karanja (b. Nairobi, Kenya, 1979), Stella Mutegi (b. Nairobi, Kenya, 1979)

This Kenya-based studio researches reverse futurism, where infrastructure for life comes from the idea of cave as the archetype of a living space. Caves, mines and chthonic shells reveal a possible otherwise to the post-colonial present which has its roots in a ‘geological’ measure of the Anthropocene as far as both urban initiatives and domestic projects are concerned, where ancestral animism rediscovers a different relationship with the more-than-human.

SIGNS

  • Anthropocene Museum 5.0 Reinscribing New York City (public lecture), Columbia GSAPP 22, New York, USA, 2022
  • 17. Biennale Architettura, Venice, Italy, 2021
  • The Anthropocene Museum 4.0: Maasai Cow Corridor (short film), 2021
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