{"id":10413,"date":"2026-01-13T10:55:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T10:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/?p=10413"},"modified":"2026-01-13T10:55:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T10:55:53","slug":"arch-interview-contributory-practices-grassroots-urbanization-in-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/arch-interview-contributory-practices-grassroots-urbanization-in-ethiopia\/","title":{"rendered":"ARCH+ Interview \u201eContributory Practices \u2013 Grassroots Urbanization in Ethiopia\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow aligncenter\" data-effect=\"slide\"><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_container swiper-container\"><ul class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_swiper-wrapper swiper-wrapper\"><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"537\" height=\"369\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image 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src=\"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/174-175-1-537x369.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/174-175-1-537x369.jpg 537w, https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/174-175-1-212x146.jpg 212w, https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/174-175-1.jpg 686w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"537\" height=\"369\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-10429\" data-id=\"10429\" src=\"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/176-177-1-537x369.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/176-177-1-537x369.jpg 537w, https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/176-177-1-212x146.jpg 212w, https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/176-177-1.jpg 686w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"537\" height=\"369\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-10430\" data-id=\"10430\" src=\"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/178-179-1-537x369.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/178-179-1-537x369.jpg 537w, https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/178-179-1-212x146.jpg 212w, https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/178-179-1.jpg 686w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"537\" height=\"369\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-10428\" data-id=\"10428\" src=\"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/180-181-1-537x369.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/180-181-1-537x369.jpg 537w, https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/180-181-1-212x146.jpg 212w, https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/180-181-1.jpg 686w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-prev swiper-button-prev swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"><\/a><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-next swiper-button-next swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Pause Slideshow\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-pause\" role=\"button\"><\/a><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_pagination swiper-pagination swiper-pagination-white\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In an interview in the current issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/archplus.net\/en\/archiv\/ausgabe\/262\/praktiken-der-mitwirkung\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/rkw-kompetenzzentrum.media\/rkw-magazin\/01-2025\/zirkulaere-materialien\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ARCH+ 262 African Spatial Thinking<\/a>, Zegeye Cherenet Mamo from Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, currently visiting scientist at KIT, discusses with Marc Ang\u00e9lil current tendencies, risks, opportunities and hopes for urbanization on the African continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The architects Zegeye Cherenet Mamo and Marc Ang\u00e9lil have been collaborating over the past decades on a series of projects across Ethiopia in education, research, and practice. Building on initiatives such as the establishment of the Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development and the rural model town Bura-NEST, they discuss questions of spatial planning that is socially and ecologically equitable in addition to future forms of urbanization in the Horn of Africa. In their conversation, they make a case for contributory practices as a countermodel to capitalist spatial production\u2014practices grounded in participation, contextual responsiveness, and collaborative design.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ang\u00e9lil, Marc and Mamo, Zegeye Cherenet. \u201cContributory Practices \u2013 Grassroots Urbanization in Ethiopia.\u201d\u00a0<em>ARCH+ Journal for Architecture and Urbanism<\/em>\u00a0African Spatial Thinking, no. 262 (2025): 170\u201381.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview in the current issue of ARCH+ 262 African Spatial Thinking, Zegeye Cherenet Mamo from Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, currently visiting scientist at KIT, discusses with Marc Ang\u00e9lil current tendencies, risks, opportunities and hopes for urbanization on the African continent. &#8220;The architects Zegeye Cherenet Mamo and Marc Ang\u00e9lil have been collaborating over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8IIze-2HX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10413"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10437,"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10413\/revisions\/10437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}