On Locality | Women Facing Place

Matri-Archi(tecture)

On locality: Women Facing Place This MA episode is an accompaniment to a greater visual collaborative piece co-created by 4 exceptional women who were travelling and dwelling in new and different cities across the globe. The episode can be found in our Matri-Archive on our website www.matri-archi.com . The series of stories speaks to the various perspectives of (non)locality that each of these women face. New and sometimes familiar place. These women include photographer Amy Braaf, designer and photographer Tshegofatso Mako, economist Gabrielle Cohen and architectural designer Josephine Dalberg. Exploring the choice and agency that urban dwellers have when deciding and identifying with various localities; this episode is prefaced with reference to Teju Cole and Taiye Selasi who speak about locality in different media. This episode thinks about the intersectionality of belonging: finding it, encountering it, naming it? Scales of locality become a topic of question. This episode is narrated by MA researcher, Khensani de Klerk and was originally published on August 6th 2017.