East Legon
Past Forward is a joint project between [applied] Foreign Affairs, Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts Vienna
and Orthner Orthner & Associates.
The publication presents narrative and artistic field research
created in and around Abotsiman, Accra, in September 2018. The team consisted of four students of architecture from the University
of Applied Arts Vienna, three students of architecture from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, and one
student of international development from Lund University. Texts by invited authors engage with intrinsic topics at hand such
as urban sprawl, gentrification, land speculation, planning and lack-of-planning, demographic inequalities and economic pressures,
and the lack of agency of communities such as Abotsiman. The scenario is at once specific and at the same time representational
of the processes and interrelationships occurring in Accra and other urban agglomerations on the African continent.