The Urban+/Heritage Talk: Inheriting the Coast: Sand, Drift, and the Making of Freetown
Dr Killian Ó Dochartaigh
November 14th, 12-1pm
This will be a hybrid event in School of Arts Library, 19 Abercromby Square and online
Freetown’s growth follows the coast and devours its sand — a heritage of extraction inherited from the colonial experiments that once mapped the city through segregation and disease control. Today, its shifting shorelines feed a speculative urbanism built on what the sea yields and erases. At John Obey beach, where tides, labour, and longing converge, sand becomes both livelihood and loss, the measure of a city remaking itself grain by grain. Through voices of miners, migrants, and returnees, this talk reflects on what it means to inherit a city that consumes its own ground — its coast, its memory, its future.
This will be a hybrid event in School of Arts Library, 19 Abercromby Square and online
Please register here: http://bit.ly/47dGxF7
There will also be:
2 - 3 pm: A Curator's Talk at RIBA with Dr Killian Ó Dochartaigh (University of Edinburgh) and Edward Lawrenson (University College London)
4 - 5.30pm: Film Screening of "Hill Station" and panel discussion with Dr Killian Ó Dochartaigh, Edward Lawrenson and Austin Johnson (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) at the School of Arts Library.
All information is sent via the Eventbrite registration link.
For further information contact: ahuwa@liverpool.ac.uk
Liverpool School of Architecture,
University of Liverpool
25 Abercromby
Square, Liverpool L69 7ZN