our projects.
December 2025
MA Exhibition
Partner
This showcase centres on the lived experiences and knowledge of women in the city, foregrounding how often overlooked or undervalued roles shape both public and private urban spaces.
Women’s ways of knowing, the embodied and sensory knowledge that informs how spaces are experienced - the recipes of a grandmother, intergenerational memory of neighbourhoods, the navigation of the best routes around a market, the feel of the street at night. This relational knowledge, built from the everyday, offers us an insight into the informal infrastructures that sustain urban life beyond formal planning. These practices actively shape space, carrying forward tradition, while moulding new forms of living in fast-changing cities from the bottom up. Women within our cities, towns and rural areas are, perhaps, not always recognised as everyday urbanists.
We explore the importance of rest and communal gathering, the intersection of tradition and modernity, the multifaceted nature of women’s roles and the diverse ways of knowing which are often gathered through women’s labour, which sustains and enriches city life.
At the centre, a continued collaboration between Black Females in Architecture and Ɛdan Ghana, with Ɛdan inviting BFA to design and curate a public space for the duration of the programme between December 2025 - January 2026.
The space will become a participatory testbed, inviting you not just to observe but to engage, rest, and reflect. Through the showcase of artists' work and various activations (installations, shared meals, and moments of pause), we celebrate the resilience, creativity, and essential contributions of women, while questioning who is invited to rest and belong in the city.
More information can be found on the Open Call here.
July 2025
Earth, Memory, and the Spaces We Inhabit
Contributor
As part of the London Festival of Architecture’s Voices series, Ɛdan contributed to Earth, Memory, and the Spaces We Inhabit, presented by Black Females in Architecture (BFA) and DēpART. The exhibition will run from 6 to 30 June 2025 at NOW Gallery in London.
The exhibition explores matrilineal legacies through sound, sculpture, and architecture, centring memory, care, and generational knowledge as critical forces in shaping how we experience and imagine space. Rooted in the Sankofa principle, it challenges conventional architectural narratives by placing listening and embodied knowledge at the core of spatial practice.
For this collaboration, Ɛdan presents There Was Chorus Before Concrete, a sonic installation and accompanying essay developed through its ongoing work on aural urban ecologies, women’s spatial experiences, and everyday soundscapes in Accra and Freetown. Drawing on field recordings, oral storytelling, and material sound practices, the work weaves together voices and rhythms that speak to intergenerational forms of spatial knowledge, care, and survival. The essay offers a written reflection on the importance of soundscapes and further exploring how women sustain, shape, and remember cities through their everyday sonic practices that are forever changing.
The project also includes an original composition by Accra-based DJ and producer TMSKDJ. Working directly with the field recordings gathered in Accra and Freetown, TMSKDJ reinterprets the textures of women's everyday sonic environments, weaving together the intimate, the infrastructural, and the atmospheric. The composition becomes both an extension of the listening practice and a creative intervention, exploring how matrilineal memory, labour, and care are carried through sound within these urban spaces
Ɛdan’s contribution reflects its wider commitment to using creative methods as research tools, surfacing community knowledge, alternative data, and new ways of reading the city from the ground up. By connecting craft, sound, and embodied experience, Ɛdan seeks to expand the possibilities of how cities are documented, understood, and reimagined.
Earth, Memory, and the Spaces We Inhabit features architectural interventions, sculptural works by diasporic artists, cinematic portraits by Liberian filmmaker Cianeh A. Kpukuyou, and Ɛdan’s sonic installation. The project was supported by the Public Discourse programme at ReArc Institute for LFA2025, as part of a series of takeovers at NOW Gallery, Greenwich Peninsula.
Ongoing
Crafting Common Imaginaries: The West African Wave
Partner
Ɛdan contributes as a founding partner to Crafting Common Imaginaries, a spatial futures project funded by the University of Amsterdam. The project builds on earlier futuring workshops hosted in Accra and expands to form physical and digital networks across West Africa, beginning with Abidjan, Lomé, and Lagos.
The initiative explores counter cartographies as a method of decolonial spatial practice, creating space to imagine alternative urban futures. As urbanisation across the region accelerates, the project brings together practitioners to collectively address common challenges around infrastructure, mobility, housing, and climate resilience. Through sound mapping, alternative neighbourhood mapping, and science fiction-inspired worldbuilding, each workshop experiments with new ways of reading and shaping the city.
The spatial futures network supports knowledge exchange, resource sharing, and ongoing dialogue, with the intention of fostering inclusive and resilient urban development. Insights generated across the network, in both textual and non-textual forms, will be made publicly accessible, contributing to a wider model for collaboration that can be extended to other regions.
Ongoing
Natural Dyeing Collective
Partner
As part of a wider network of natural dyeing practitioners, Ɛdan contributes to a growing collective of designers, dyers, weavers, and creatives who share a commitment to material knowledge, sustainability, and craft lineages. Within this exchange, we bring our specific practice rooted in local contexts, working with plant-based dyes and inherited techniques, while learning from others across the network. Together, these collaborations foster shared experimentation, knowledge transfer, and new conversations around the role of natural dyeing in shaping contemporary creative and material futures.