Reframing the African Landscape

'Reframing the African Landscape' is an invitation to question dominant narratives, methodologies, and educational frameworks, many of which are rooted in Eurocentric or colonial traditions and to instead foster contextually grounded, inclusive, and future-facing approaches. Sub-themes are:

• ‍Landscape education: Models imported from the Global North, frequently overlook indigenous knowledge systems, local ecologies, and socio-cultural nuances. Reframing implies consciously shifting pedagogical conventions.‍
• Landscape Practice: Reframing calls for a deepened cultural and ecological sensitivity to Africa’s immense diversity in terms of climate, cultures, ecologies, and urbanisation patterns, and‍
• Imagining New Futures: Reframing alludes to not only critique, but a generative act of imagining and co-creating more just, sustainable, and vibrant landscapes as part of a transformative agenda in which architects, educators, and communities actively reshape how landscapes are understood and designed challenge conventions, nurture African perspectives and craft a profession as diverse, dynamic, and resilient as the continent itself.