When we walk through cities and developing areas, it’s easy to spot temporary façades along the pavements, usually accompanied by the sounds of construction just beyond the advertisements for upcoming…
Who is Pattaya? To outsiders, Pattaya appears as an epicentre of pleasure. Neon lights, crowded night markets, and illuminated streets stretched along the coastline illustrate the vibrant nightlife the city…
Imagine arriving in Shenzhen for the first time. At first glance, it seems to be an extremely modernised city, with glass towers everywhere, elevated highways, endless construction and newfound technological…
My hometown, Mombasa, is a small coastal city in Kenya and one of the most popular destinations on the coast of East Africa. When it was in its early years,…
Rethinking What We Call ‘Informal’ Galleries, craft studios, cultural centres, and digitally driven innovation hubs are the most visible and celebrated forms of the creative economy in policy and media.…
Indian cities seem to be organised on paper, zoned, regulated, and systematically organised. However, the lived experience tells a different story. An individual is walking on a damaged footpath, a…
‘A passage between Realms’ “Originating from the Japanese turii, meaning gateway leading to heaven. Its Sanskrit synonym for a door is Dwara, from the word Dwi, meaning ‘two’. This refers…
Contemporary global challenges are increasingly shaped by issues of global sustainability, rapid urbanization, and industrial growth. These interconnected forces intensify major environmental problems such as climate change, energy shortages, and…
Sustainable development will require the effective integration of green energy systems. Relying only on natural resources for energy generation is not where it stops. Along with that, technological advancements are…
Imagination is an extraordinary human faculty that has been positive for the exploratory nature of humankind and is an undeniable reason behind discoveries extending from fire to rocket science. However,…
The Nature of the Creative Journey The Creative Journey begins with a concept, inquiry, or curiosity. Ideas form softly, frequently unorganized, but with immense promise. The difficulty is to guide…
The first day at college was a bit uncertain. Even though I had decided to pursue my degree at Addis Ababa University, being in the exact place where I had…