Emmanuel K Ofori Sarpong on pedagogy feeding into his architectural practice

Emmanuel K Ofori Sarpong is a practising architect and an academic from Ghana. A graduate of the Kumasi city’s Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, the majority of his work has been in research and teaching whereas design projects have been speculative and exploratory. From kiosk estates and the possibilities for an architecture that prioritises mobility, witch camps, emergency response architecture, and low-income housing, Ofori Sarpong’s studio based research is grounded in the social justice questions of our time, especially as they pertain to marginalised communities. He also co-founded Sociarchi with his closest friend from architecture school, Kuukuwa Manful, where the two work for communities on the margins of political and economic interest. “I am very much interested in not just architecture for its own sake, but how knowledge from other fields feature…