{"product_id":"pan-african-biennale-2026","title":"Pan-African Biennale 2026","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShifting the Center: From Fragility to Resilience\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCurated by Omar Degan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEdited by Meriam Sehimi with Samira Aden\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis title is expected to become \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eavailable in September 2026.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePre-order now!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDoes African architecture exist?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePan-Africanism was never a geography. It was a political and intellectual claim,  born in the diaspora, carried across oceans, forged in the encounter between colonisation, displacement, and the refusal to be defined by either. It asked what becomes possible when a scattered world insists on its own continuity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book asks that question through architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe manifestos gathered here were written by the practices of the inaugural Pan-African Biennale, Nairobi 2026 , local, diasporic, and extra-continental voices from Nairobi and Dakar, Khartoum and Johannesburg, São Paulo and Port-au-Prince, New York and London, Kingston and Cape Town, and beyond. Each was asked to respond to the curatorial question from within their own conditions: their ecologies, their histories, their materials, their spatial urgencies. What emerges across these pages is not a definition. It is a field of situated knowledge, plural, contested, and irreducibly grounded, that reframes the terms of a conversation architectural discourse has held for too long without these voices at its centre.    \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo shift the center is to move the ground of the conversation itself. From fragility to resilience. From erasure to reclamation. From the periphery to authorship. These are not abstract positions. They are spatial realities, lived and practiced across the continent and its diaspora, now made legible on their own terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e210 x 230 mm\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eapprox. 240 pages, 150 images\u003cbr\u003eHardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eISBN 978-3-86922-351-3\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DOM publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57825619869960,"sku":"978-3-86922-351-3","price":48.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1416\/5196\/files\/cid_29c28351-e950-4c96-83c2-0bfc509ba4b0.jpg?v=1778867819","url":"https:\/\/dom-publishers.com\/de\/products\/pan-african-biennale-2026","provider":"DOM publishers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}