23 GSA Architecture Week Lecture: Opening Lecture by Margarida Waco 27 August 2024 Margarida Waco (b. 1992, Cabinda) is an architect and writer whose practice engages design, research, and pedagogy to interrogate the infrastructures that persistently organise the world through ‘double fracture’ whilst drawing from Black radical thought to imagine other possible worlds. Her work has been presented internationally, including at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale, Architekturmuseum der TUM, Palais de Tokyo, Malmö Art Museum, Nyansapo Afrofeminist Festival, and Arquiteturas Festival Porto, among others. Margarida is the co-author of ‘Informal Horizons’ (Royal Danish Academy, 2019), coeditor of ‘Pan-Africanism’ (The Funambulist, 2020), and co-editor of ‘Homeplace – A Love Letter’ (Architekturmuseum der TUM, 2023). Her writing has been published in Aprender a Desaprender (Dafne Editora, 2024), Afterall, Ellipses Journal of Creative Research, STOÀ Journal, and Archive of Forgetfulness. Margarida directs an architectural design studio at the Royal College of Art in London and is an Editorial Advisor to The Funambulist, where she previously held the position of Head of Strategic Outreach. She has practised across offices in Paris, Copenhagen, and Stockholm. She received her MA in Architecture from the Royal Danish Academy and is the 24/25 recipient of the JAE Fellowship. GSA Architecture Week Lecture: The Crisis of Black Studies by Victoria Collis-Buthelezi 28 August 2024 Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi is an Associate Professor in English, the Director of the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS), and the Director for the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class at the University of Johannesburg. Her research interests include black intellectual history as well as Caribbean, African, and African American literatures. She has published in several international journals such as Small Axe, Callaloo, and The Black Scholar, in which she co-edited a special issue on “Black Studies in South Africa.” She is series editor of Critical South and sits on the editorial board of Small Axe. She is a member of the Other Universals Collective, a consortium of scholars in South Africa, Ghana, Ethiopia, Barbados and Lebanon, committed to exploring intellectual histories of exchange across Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East and South Asia. Her book, Ends of Empire, Black Liberation, is under contract with Columbia University Press and Wits Press and will appear in 2025. The book excavates the print cultures of black migrants to Cape Town from the Caribbean, the US, West Africa and other parts of South Africa before the rise of anti-colonial nationalism. She is a research associate of the Institute of Research in African American Studies (IRAAS) at Columbia University (New York) and a senior research fellow at JIAS. She is on the Global Advisory Board of the Center of Global Black Studies at the University of Miami and Association of Global Political Thought (Harvard University). Victoria has held posts in English at the University of Cape Town and as a Senior Researcher at the Wits Institute of Social and Economic Research (WiSER) at the University of the Witwatersrand.
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