Limbo Accra, a spatial design and research-based practice in Ghana, has launched Limbo Museum, an interdisciplinary research and exhibition space dedicated to pioneering art and architectural practices.
Limbo museum’s inauguration featured a summit that brought together a diverse group of architects, artists, and curators from around the globe to “explore how resource and carbon-intensive ruins can transform through experimental architectural and artistic approaches for a just and sustainable future.” The launch program delved into “ruins as a distinctive spatial phenomenon tied to extractive modernity, a condition that spans both the global South and North.”
Housed within a 600sqm unfinished neo-brutalist estate in Accra, Ghana, Limbo Museum is an emblem that facilitates a larger mission in the restoration of our planetary ruins.
– Limbo Accra
The summit included a webinar on “Ruins and Data Architectures” featuring Courage Dzidula Kpodo, Femi Johnson, Omer Gorashi, Mallory Cohen, and Olorunfemi Adewuyi, moderated by Nana Biamah-Ofosu. Additionally, there were two panel discussions: “Constructive Ruins to Free Spaces” featuring Ibrahim Mahama, Dominique Petit-Frère, Sofia Pia Belenky, Tosin Oshinowo, and moderated by Diallo Simon-Ponte; and “From Industries of Construction to Restoration” featuring Laurent Gimenez, Baerbel Mueller, Daniel Duah, Nzinga M. Boup, Farida Abu-Bakare, and moderated by Lennart Wolff.
The interdisciplinary research and exhibition space, Limbo Museum, describes itself as reimagining what a museum can be – not as static archive, but as a living laboratory for experimentation, transformation, and possibility. Using an unfinished space, they flip the script on traditional museum-making, embracing the skeletal void as a canvas for new ideas.
Here, ruins are not relics of the past but active participants in shaping the future. By blending architecture, memory, and community, we create experiences that challenge conventional boundaries between the built and unbuilt, the complete and incomplete.
– Limbo Museum
The launch of Limbo Museum marks a significant milestone in the firm’s mission to restore planetary ruins and promote sustainable practices in the built environment.
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