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📌 THREAD : Unruly Project – Récap 2024 & Perspectives 2025
Dear friends, here’s an update on what’s been a busy and rewarding year for the Unruly Project!
Grateful for your continued support. 🧵
🆕✨ We've updated our Resources section!
Dive into a curated selection of artworks, tributes, and playlists that inspire and challenge how we think about African cities, memory, and imagination.
🎨📚🎧 Explore the new entries now →theunrulyproject.org/resourc…
Another recent highlight in our Resources section: The Abidjaner. Launched in 2022, this collective art project celebrates the spirit of Abidjan through weekly illustrations. Led by Corotoum Symakan, it brings together diverse artists to honour the city's beauty and complexity.🖼️
🎧 And finally, don’t forget to check out the latest additions to our Open playlist – a curated sound journey through the moods, voices & vibes that inspire the Unruly Spaces project. open.spotify.com/playlist/4G…
📸✨ New on our website: Explore the Visual Ethnography section of the #UnrulySpaces project!
A new curated photo gallery brings you closer to the textures, rhythms & politics of everyday life in Kinshasa & Abidjan. Four thematic series now online.⬇️
theunrulyproject.org/visual-…
4️⃣ Im-Mobilities
What does it mean to move—or not—through African megacities?
From moto-taxis to makeshift boats, this section documents the inventive, unequal & often precarious ways people get around.
🚖🚶🏾♂️🛶 Urban movement as resilience & critique.
These visuals aren't just images.
They’re fieldwork tools, storytelling devices, and urban critiques. They deserve contextualisation.
Explore the full collection, including captions and context, now live on the #UnrulySpaces site: theunrulyproject.org/visual-…
The Unruly Spaces website just got a fresh update! Missed a workshop or a conference panel? We’ve got you covered.
Here’s a quick overview of what’s new under the “Events” section 👇
theunrulyproject.org/events
🌈 Queer Urban Lives – PhD Results Dissemination Workshops in Kinshasa & Abidjan
Two closed-door sessions led by @AlineNanko shared and confronted preliminary findings of her thesis with project participants on queer agency, resistance & subaltern urban citizenship.
🚨 Website Update Alert!
We’ve revamped the Unruly Spaces project website with new content, features, and insights!
theunrulyproject.org/
📹 @TV5MONDE – Objectif Monde L'hebdo
What turned a land deal into a deadly conflict?
Prof. @sperazzone offers insight into how land, identity & violence intersect in Kisangani (DRC).
tv5monde.com/tv/video/98687-…
The new section "In the Media" reflects our commitment to research that speaks beyond academia – and to engaging with the broader public on the political, social, and urban questions shaping African cities today.
👉 More to see here: unrulyspaces.org/in-the-medi…