My current research redirects New Materialist and Object Oriented Ontologies to recenter the human in these discussions. From cybernetic, feminist, environmental and postcolonial literature, I approximate the built environment and the archive of the built environment to disentangle colonial patriarchal capitalist approximations in architecture and to highlight histories of marginalised practices that can help us in present global concerns. 

In my PhD I study social constructions of ‘the human’ in architectural discourse through the exchanges between, and expanded contexts of, the Department of Tropical Studies at the Architectural Association of London (from now on AA) and the Departments of Architecture and Planning at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi (from now on KNUST) in their first two decades of existence, from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s.

My research project ‘As Hardly Found in the Architecture Archive’ (AHFAA — awarded a Bartlett Architecture Research Fund) reclaims the archival nature of ‘as found’ practices attributed to brutalist architects and artists for their encounters (and work) with everyday objects and the ecologies these represented. AHFAA twists the term ‘as found’ understanding that an approximation to the material culture of the everyday life requires in-depth, ‘hardly-found’ research to manifest its connections and the contribution of othered knowledges. AHFAA's methodologies depart from the ficto-critical/fabulographic approximations to historical documents as practiced by artists, curators, and interdisciplinary historians. AHFAA departs from my current research activities with archivists and artists in the curatorial and editorial work in the upcoming exhibition and book ‘As Hardly Found in the Art of Tropical Architecture’ (AA Gallery and AA Press, 2023 — funded by Graham Foundation, Henry Moore Foundation, Elephant Trust, and others) with a cast of renown as well as early career artists and writers.