verbal agreements

This project challenges traditional cartographic methods of understanding the city by privileging narrative, interpretation, and lived experience over conventional forms of representation. Centered on Accra, Ghana, the work draws from a wide range of sources—news articles, books, food, podcasts, music, and poetry—to construct a layered and nuanced reading of the city. Our understanding was deepened by a week-long visit, where we engaged directly with local artists and immersed ourselves in the civic and cultural fabric of the place. The project grapples with critical questions: How can we design in places where we are culturally and geographically distant? What does it mean to map through memory, emotion, and exchange? Presented as a first edition, this work proposes a new methodology—one that embraces uncertainty, dialogue, and the poetics of place.

Collaboration : Maclane Regan, Chi Chi Wakabayashi