Hood Century and Limbo Accra reflect on a new Black spatial reality
In a new series of profiles, we follow Ghanaian spatial design studio Limbo Accra on a journey that explores its collaborations. Limbo Accra’s rich network developed through global partnerships that founder Dominique Petit-Frère nurtured with leading urban space-makers and architectural enthusiasts. The series discusses critical issues of our time, such as design intention, intergenerationality, creativity and change through Africa and its diaspora. First up, the spotlight turns to Jerald ‘Coop’ Cooper of online platform Hood Century
Hood Century is an online platform founded by Jerald ‘Coop’ Cooper in 2019. The project, blending Black culture and modernist architecture, was conceived as a space dedicated to documenting midcentury finds from Coop’s childhood neighbourhood in Cincinnati. In so doing, the platform soon became a springboard to unpack myriad themes, exploring the intersection between archi
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Ghana’s First Skate Park Is About Much More Than Skateboarding
Surf Ghana / Sandy Alibo
You might not know it, but one of the most dynamic and radically adventurous skate scenes happening right now is in Ghana s capital, Accra. Nevertheless, the vitality of the country’s skate scene seems less a by-product of prosperity and more a willful, self-propelling act of determination.
Sandy Alibo founded the sports NGO and collective Surf Ghana with the dream to nurture and equip the striving local skate scene. Now a decisive part of that dream is being realized: a fully fledged skate park. “We need a space. We need to be visible,” Alibo tells me. “People ask me, ‘Why now?’ I think we are finally ready.” For both the founder and local skaters, a lack of infrastructure and support in the past has been frustrating but still not enough to snuff out the underground fire growing on the streets. With the first skate park in the works as we speak, it seems like another step tow
Limbo Accra nurtures discussion around urban space in Africa and beyond
Limbo Accra nurtures discussion around urban space in Africa and beyond
We hone in on the work of Limbo Accra, a pioneering, spatial design studio founded in Ghana that encourages a new wave of creative collaboration and co-production in Africa and its diaspora
Photography: Anthony Combder-Badu
Limbo Accra is a spatial design studio founded in Ghana by Dominique Petit-Frère and Emil Grip. It explores the intersection between art, architecture and sustainability, inspired by rapidly modernising West African cities. The studio’s name is a nod to the many incomplete and since-abandoned buildings in Accra and other West African cities, their sites in a state of limbo.