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Central to this event is Karanja’s work at Cave_bureau where architecture is activated as a deep time earth practice to confront and resist historical injustices. Cave_bureau’s approach emphasises the power of storytelling and the importance of knowledge sharing to address spatial and cultural inequities. Karanja will highlight some of the tools of solidarity and transformation they have used to begin generating new futures of geological repair. This will set the stage for an open conversation with the attendees about creative earth marking, and methodologies necessary to tackle the complex socio-environmental challenges of our time.
To enrich this dialogue, we invite you to bring an artefact or object of solidarity and repair — whether material or immaterial — that represents your cultural standpoint about social and environmental justice and healing. This artefact or idea, will serve as a personal entry point for sharing stories, fostering cross-cultural connections, and deepening our collective understanding of how to reimagine architectural education and practice with a focus on solidarity and justice.
Kabage Karanja is a co-founding director of Cave_bureau, a Nairobi based studio of architects and researchers, set up ten years ago. Their work explores the relationship between architecture, urbanism, nature and culture. He has recently been appointed co-curator of the UK Pavilion for the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, and in parallel is a Louis Khan visiting assistant professor at Yale school of architecture. Previous exhibitions include the Architect’s studio series at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art 2023-2024, Venice Architecture Biennale 2021 & 2023 and the World Around Summit at the Guggenheim Museum in 2021. Cave_bureau has received awards and grants to realise their Anthropocene Museum that is centred around social and environmental acts of justice and repair.
