The Architects

Founder
O.D. Enobabor is a geographer, critical theorist and social practitioner. Founder and co-architect of Black: Cite; Sight– Site, Diane situates praxis concerned art practice and social movement organizing strategies such as B.C.S.S. as an operational technology liberatory 'future planning'. Her work is informed by her identity, an Itsekiri Texan born to Nigerians from Delta State who has lived and worked through the United States, Caribbean and Brazil. She is currently based between São Paulo, BR and New York, NY. She leads and organizes with Africa is Everywhere, a Pan-African feminist grassroots initiative- financial sponsor for public/private programming of BCSS and is also the principal/founder of Misan Consulting.

Muindi Fanuel Muindi is a social practice artist, philosopher, and poet, with Lacustrine Bantu roots in the Rift Forests of Eastern Congo and the Mara Wetlands in Tanzania.

As a social practice artist, Muindi coordinates assemblages of administrative statements, technical implements, built environments, and dramatic elements, which function as laboratories in the Black Arts and Decolonial Sciences.

Muindi is co-founder of the Fyrthyr Institute for Unsettling Technologies, coordinator of the “Prototyping Social Forms” and “Alter-Eco” research streams at the Synthesis Center, an organizer at the Center for Concrete and Abstract Machines, an associate editor of the journal AI & Society, and co-producer and audio engineer for the Forested Niches podcast. Previously, Muindi was a member of the “After School”, “Technologies of Critical Conscientization”, and “Unwriting Nature” research communities at the Center for Art Design + Social Research.

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