Dele Adeyemo is an artist, architect, and urban theorist whose research links Black Studies with urbanism and focuses on the logics that guide urbanization processes, in particular logistics, and what he calls ‘modern slavery’. His work mobilizes ‘black aesthetics’ – writing, cinema, motion, sensorial experiences – and aims at overcoming the mechanisms of logic by rediscovering the bodily origins of things. The concept of Black Horizon, initiated by Adeyemo, shows how recognizing the precariousness in black people’s lives may help us see potential alternatives through which to shatter the dynamics of exploitation of individuals and spaces.
