Prince Claus Fund announces Building Beyond Mentorship recipients

Building Beyond Mentorship is an alternative educational programme aimed at fostering thought leadership, promoting criticality and reframing design-based practices.

The recipients will come together to jointly reflect on the future of cities and communities, while developing individual concepts that fit into their wider practice.

Hailing from nine African countries, the creatives work in a wide range of design fields that include research and performance, architecture, urbanism, digital design, visual arts and photography. 

During the programme, the creatives will work on projects that reimagine the future of public spaces, community and functionality in their own contexts.

They will be guided programme mentors Ola Hassanain (Sudan), Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou (Togo), Khensani de Klerk (South Africa) and Selly Raby Kane (Senegal).

“We are excited to announce the 12 artists who will be reimagining the future of their cities through design and creative problem solving ... With this programme, we aim to contribute to an ongoing conversation on how creative practices rooted in locality and community can lead to new perspectives and promote transformative urban agendas that change how we inhabit our world,” the Prince Clus Fund said.

The 2022 Building Beyond Mentorship programme recipients are:

• Hana Tefrati (performer, choreographer, curator and visual artist) – Morocco.
• Russel Hlongwane (cultural producer and creative industries consultant) – South Africa.
• Flavia Gwiza (architect and urbanist) – Rwanda.
• Ikram Hamdi Mansour (eco-architect and cultural project manager) – Algeria.
• Inam Kula (storyteller) – South Africa.
• Katesi Jacqueline Kalange (visual artist) – Uganda.
• Kwasi Darko (fine arts photographer, digital artist and curator living) – Ghana.
• Nifemi Marcus-Bello (industrial designer) – Nigeria.
• Salma Belal (architect and urbanist) – Egypt.
• Youssef El Idrissi (artist, researcher and cultural worker) – Morocco.
• Mohamed Sirra (artist, designer and researcher) – Morocco.
• Yishak Teklegiorgis (architect and a founder of Zorit Architects) – Ethiopia.