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Legon Past Forward is a joint project between [applied] Foreign Affairs, Institute of Architecture, University of Applied
Arts Vienna and Orthner Orthner & Associates.
The publication presents narrative and artistic
field research created in and around Abotsiman, Accra, in September 2018. The team consisted of four students of architecture
from the University of Applied Arts Vienna, three students of architecture from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and
Technology, and one student of international development from Lund University. Texts by invited authors engage with intrinsic
topics at hand such as urban sprawl, gentrification, land speculation, planning and lack-of-planning, demographic inequalities
and economic pressures, and the lack of agency of communities such as Abotsiman. The scenario is at once specific and at the
same time representational of the processes and interrelationships occurring in Accra and other urban agglomerations on the
African continent.
