Staff from the Department are participating in Countryside, The Future,  led by Rem Koolhas and AMO team. This exhibition has created an opportunity for the Department to collaborate on an Exhibition that presents spec­ulations about tomorrow through insights into the country­sides around the world today.

The Exhibition, Countryside The Future, addresses the urgent environmental, political, and socioeconomic issues through the lens of Architect and Urbanist Rem Koolhaas and Samir Bantal, Director of AMO, the think tank of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA).

The resulting installation is interactive, collaborative and most importantly, accessible to the public at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

The East African exhibition content occupies Ramp four of the museum and it unravels and reveals several aspects and components of the Existing Kenyan Countryside that goes on to give a window to the Future forms and spatial extents of these spaces.

The East African exhibition content illustrates contemporary views of the Kenyan countryside discussed by Etta Madete and Dr Nkatha Gichuyia.

Starting with the deceptively simple question on: Define the East African countryside  followed on by several revelations. A key one by Etta Madete that “A few key statistics on the countryside of Kenya show that a false sense of density, brought about by the intrinsic nature of urban compaction masks the true importance of the countryside as a key factor of development in Kenya”

The exhibition is on from the 20th of February 2020 to the 14th of August 2020 and is located in the Solomon R. Guggenheim in New York

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