Mpho Matsipa, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Anisia Uzeyman
Activity
Friday, 20 February 2026
Possible Futures
With Mpho Matsipa, Elvira Dyangani Ose and Anisia Uzeyman. Moderated by Asha Best
Black Urbanities. Black Politics in the City
coming soon
Architect and urbanist Mpho Matsipa, in conversation with MACBA’s Director and cultural researcher Elvira Dyangani Ose, and geographer Asha Best, propose the city as a space to reimagine emancipatory Black futures.
While urban planning seeks to anticipate and instrumentalize the future, urban life is always multiple and contested. How then have black residents sought to enable a future in conditions where it was thought they had none? In the face of ever emerging technologies of future making, how does blackness interrupt the expected trajectories largely defined by powers external to it?
this activity is part of
participants
Asha Best 
Elvira Dyangani Ose 
Anisia Uzeyman
artists
3 artists
In collaboration with
With the support of
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
MACBA Thirty
We celebrate Year Thirty of an infinite MACBA that projects the future as a space for revision and possibility: of taking up what was left unfinished, updating what needs it and projecting anew everything that can still be transformed.
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Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica
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