Season 4 of‘…into words with Sola’ ‘Sola & Friends’ podcast series

Season 3 of ‘…into words with Sola’ ‘STO:RI’ podcast series

Design Researcher for ‘tableNotable’

‘tableNotable’ is a project run by myself and my colleagues Helene Day Fraser and Jihyun Park where we intervene in various studio spaces to call students to practice decolonial ways of design. These methods usually stem from our various cultural backgrounds and are effected through modes such as experimentation, conversation and play.

Design Researcher on PhD project by Philosophy in Library, Archival and Information Studies candidate, Saguna Shankar May 2021 till date. 

The project explores and questions Canadian immigration data collection practices and reimagines what ethical care for newcomers’ data looks like in practice.

I have brought my Yorùbá subjectivity to my approach as a design researcher on this project and co-created a set of visual resources with Saguna that offer questions about how to care for communities and their data, turn attention to power relations in data practices, identify points to pause in decision making, and support dialogues amongst groups who give, collect, manage, and otherwise use immigration data.

More on Saguna Shankar’s Project

My Mother Taught Me to Tie Gele 2020 [picture linked]

BOOK DESIGN: The Journey of a Passport: on the road to humanity by Adebayo Olowo-Ake.

The Writing Circle Project (WCP) presents…

UNVEILING

a curation of works by 6 black emerging artists who seek to dispel whitewashed narratives on blackness through different mediums and creative expressions.

The Writing Circle Project is a collective that is made up of artist, Blanes Wathumbi, Chelsea Nwasike, Fanny Kearse, Oluwaseun Olowo-Ake, Oluwasayo Taiwo Olowo-Ake and Oluwasola Olowo-Ake.

Themes: unity; equity; individuality; identity; growth; blackness; nature; police brutality; resilience; decoloniality; deconstruction; subversive narrative; rebellion; migration/ immigration; codeswitching; imago dei; black christianity; double-consciousness; the glass box; identity; censorship; coloniality; reconstruction; self neglect; rejection of self; oppression; racism spiritual abuse; complicity.

See website here

ORUKO MI NI: REINTERPRETING IBEJI 2020 by Sayo Olowo-Ake

Storyteller on Ibeji Stories: Kehinde (the second twin) for her MA curatorial project ‘Oruko mi ni’ for the SANKOFA exhibition.

Garments & modelling] for ‘hair is architecture…’ [picture linked]