Ongoing research; economy of appurtenance/ resisting rural impermanence

About; Ongoing research with the aim of studying the difficulte inherited dynamics bettween the rural and the urban. The number of humans living in urban conglomerations has since 2008 outrunned those living in rural settlements. These heavy movements from smaller types of settlements toward larger ones and from there into world megapolis can be considered as linked to the dichotomy between nature and culture, modern and primitive and so on. As a case study I have decided to look into a project, a rural foyer that has been implemented in one of the villages since 1960. The post-independence era in most West African nation states has predominantly been marked, transformed and informed by non-governmental organizations, AID programs and other inter-national programs deciding who lives and who dies (Piot, 2010). This is mainly due to poor government investment in the social and a negligence of the rural people in favor of the urban. My case study is an entrance into the site. I see this rural foyer as a starting point to approach subjects, in order to disclose how the site is making and unmaking itself and highlight some of the means through which locals are intervening on the site. 

Location; Kuma Dunyo, Togo

Collaborations; https://inland.org/ https://www.konstnarsnamnden.se/ https://www.daas.academy/sites/

Learn more about the research; https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVOSkZzts=/