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“The future is very much embedded and designed in local realities.”

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Are you interested in the involvement of informal settlements in the future of cities? What do you think about the importance of creative industries for urban futures? How can we create more ownership within our spaces?

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Interview with Carina Tenewaa Kanbi, a spatial practitioner. We will talk about her vision for the future of cities, the role of the individuals and governance, informal settlements, creative industries, storytelling, and many more.

Carina Tenewaa Kanbi is a spatial practitioner, ARUA Fellow and PhD researcher at the African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand. Her doctoral work explores young West African creatives in Accra and Lagos. With master’s degrees from Central Saint Martins (MA Cities) and the University of Amsterdam (MSc Migration & Ethnicity), she bridges urbanism, migration, and the arts to foster inclusive, just cities. Co-founder of Aya Editions and Edan, she champions regenerative design, cultural preservation, and creative cosmopolitanism across West Africa.

Find out more about Carina through these links:

• Carina Tenewaa Kanbi at Cities Work
• Carina Tenewaa Kanbi at the mobility Governance Lab
• Aya Editions website
• Aya Academi website

Connected episodes you might be interested in:

• No.027 – Interview with Richard Manasseh about city sound scapes
• No.415R – Rethinking the contribution of creative economies in Africa
• No.416 – Interview with Raoul Rugamba about Kigali and Africa’s creative industries
• No.435R – Governance of urban informal settlements in Africa: A scoping review

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