Time: Thursday 10 September 2026, 15.15. – 17.00.
Place: Tampere University, Linna-building, room K112.
Organizers: The Intersectionality in Research Network (InReNet) and The Unit of Social Research / Social Anthropology at Tampere University
Kholisile Dhliwayo is an African Australian architect, artist, and curator. His interdisciplinary practice draws on cultural practices and collective histories, particularly those of diasporas, to produce community-centered architecture, art, and installations.
His Black Diasporas project is an oral narrative mapping project that documents the places, spaces and experiences that have meaning to people of Black-African Diaspora heritage living in different cities in different countries. “Imagine a digital map where, by clicking a drop pin, you hear directly from someone sharing their experience of being in that place: www.blackdiasporas.com.“ So far, the platform holds over 1500 geo-located stories from more than 150 Black participants—across ethnicities, genders, ages, regions, and lived experiences, from Australia and North America. He is now working to bring this project to Helsinki – centering the voices of Black people living in Finland, through short films, oral storytelling, and public exhibition. The main aim of the project is to deepen relationships between communities by celebrating the diversity, joy, and nuance of Black life.
Kholisile Dhliwayo’s experience includes Brooklyn Bronzes, a permanent installation at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), Black Diasporas, and contributions to the architecture of the Canadian Senate Building, the Javits Center, and David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. He is a licensed architect in the United States (NY, VA, and DC) and Australia (NSW and VIC), a Harvard GSD graduate, an Adrian Cheng Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s SICI program (2023–24), and a member of the New Museum’s NEW INC Year 12 and 13 cohorts.
We welcome researchers and students, as well as individuals from outside the university—particularly those who identify with the African/Black diaspora—to this event. No separate registration is required for this event, which will be held in accordance with the principles of a safer space.
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For more information, please contact anna.rastas@tuni.fi