Architect, associate professor and co-director of the "Spatial Justice" program at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. Her research aims to offer a critical and creative reimagination of the ties between resource extraction, geopolitics, and design through new vocabularies, proposing Black counter-cartographies and urban models rooted in spatial justice. She has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), as well as at Columbia University, Cooper Union and Harvard University (United States), and she was a member of the jury for the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. At the Bartlett she also directs After Extraction, an initiative that explores the intersection between creative practices and environmental sciences in Johannesburg and proposes speculative futures based on Indigenous knowledge, Black feminism and artistic practice. Matsipa has curated various exhibitions and cultural projects, including the South African Pavilion for the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale, Studio-X in Johannesburg, the exhibition African Mobilities at the Munich Architecture Museum (2018), and a podcast series of the same name that gathers voices from different disciplines to imagine urban futures in Africa in a collective way. She has also served as associate curator for the Lubumbashi Biennial (2022 and 2024).