Over the past year, my research has examined Gulf-funded humanitarian architectures across East Africa and the Indian Ocean, leading to the founding of the Contemporary Humanitarian Practices Lab to document, question, and reimagine these aid infrastructures through fieldwork, archives, and interviews toward more grounded, collaborative, and dignified models of aid architecture.
“How might this wave of activism be tougher and more defiant by not being singular and universal but by being planetary, patchy, partial, and inconsistent as it deals with multiple ecologies, multiple dangers, and political superbugs.”
Keller Easterling