Practice Lecture by Patricia Bandora, Simphiwe Mlambo, Titus Shitaatala & Chinenye Chukwuka

Date: 25 July 2024 
Time: 18:00 - 20:00 
The GSA and Goethe-Institut Emergent Practice 2 exhibition celebrates the vibrant and diverse work of distinguished recent GSA graduates Simphiwe Mlambo (2022), Patricia Bandora (2022) and Titus Shitaatala (2023). Working with Ngillan Faal (GSA Making Convenor and Unit 7 Lead) the exhibition is co-curated by GSA graduate Chinenye Chukwuka (2023) who will also share reflections on her current and future practice. These emergent practitioners embody the transformative ethos of the GSA and have been invited to present their innovative practices as part of the 2024 Practice lecture series.
1. Titus Shitaatala is a Namibian Candidate Architect, Digital Artist, and Archivist. Having graduated from the Graduate School of Architecture in 2023, he is interested in exploring how spaces can go beyond their physical existence to become storytelling mediums of memories, narratives, and meaning.
His approach lies in understanding how people connect with spatial narratives through intricate spatial arrangements, materiality, and construction techniques, going beyond traditional architecture to integrate visual arts, film, and sculpture to expand on the storytelling potential of spaces.
2. Chinenye is a candidate architect, curator, and researcher whose practice intertwines architecture, lived experiences, and art to curate spaces and content for accessible and engaging use.
Based between Cape Town and Johannesburg, with roots in Lagos, Nigeria, Chinenye explores urban landscapes in African cities, focusing on migration, agency, and community adaptation.
3. Simphiwe Mlambo is an Afrocentric Architectural researcher and educator with an M.Arch from the GSA. She lectures at the University of Johannesburg's Department of Architecture and serves as a postgraduate tutor in Unit 7 at the Graduate School of Architecture.
Her teaching methods, exemplified by The 1:1 project, reimagine design for the body, exploring haptic and tectonic space in collaboration with Wai think tank in 2024.
4. Patricia Mhoja Bandora is a young and passionate award-winning Architect and Researcher from Tanzania who graduated, with a Summa Cum Laude, from the Graduate School of Architecture of the University of Johannesburg.
Patricia’s interests lie in the relationship between colonialism and architecture and the challenge of decolonising the latter and making it an instrument for deconstructing the past, learning, and preserving African systems and applying them to the built environment, spatial and urban planning in the continent.