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This article was originally featured in PIN\u2013UP<\/a> magazine. Pin\u2013up is a biannual architecture and design magazine that regularly features interviews with renowned architects as well as critical essays and contemporary architecture and design photography.<\/em><\/p>\n

An author of a book of poems and a former med-school candidate, 25-year-old Eze Imade Eribo has taken a circuitous path to the field of design. \u201cMy descent into architecture,\u201d as she calls it, \u201cwas really about putting all the pieces together.\u201d This is an apt description of the Nigerian-born designer\u2019s process, which is about bringing her taste, innovation and scientific research into building practice. An alumnus of Cooper Union\u2019s legendary Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, Eribo made headlines in 2013 when the Architectural Review<\/i> selected her thesis project as a runner-up in its Global Architecture Graduate Awards \u2014 a worldwide competition for which only five entrants make the shortlist each year.<\/p>\n

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Reconstructing the Banal by Eribo via issuu<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

Reconstructing the Banal<\/i>, as she titled it, was a proposal for a floating fish-smoking facility among the mangroves of Bakassi, a long-disputed peninsula on the border between Cameroon and Nigeria. Since Nigeria transferred sovereignty to Cameroon in 2008, the Bakassi people have been the victims of a violent displacement campaign, and thousands have fled. Eribo\u2019s project was intended to serve the local fishing economy, but not only. \u201cHow do you address the politics of a situation when you\u2019re not allowed to speak about it?\u201d says Eribo. The answer she found was to sneak a recording and broadcast system into the smokehouse, to allow the local community to air stories of government persecution under the guise of documenting folktales. \u201cIn Africa you can\u2019t directly talk about politics,\u201d says Eribo, \u201cbut through art, it is forgivable.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Eribo is currently pursuing a graduate degree in business design (following a masters in fashion design at the Domus Academy in Milan), her ultimate goal is to be an independent multidisciplinary architect and designer. \u201cThere\u2019s just no other way than to eventually start a design firm,\u201d she says. When she finally does, her work will surely continue to draw from her varied experiences abroad, in Italy and the U.S. \u201cLiving in all these different places has afforded me the opportunity to exist and operate within different mindsets, frameworks and stereotypically-projected opinions,\u201d she observes.<\/p>\n

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Story image on slave ships by Eribo & Rasheedah Phillips via The Funambulist<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

But for all the diversity of her experiences, it is her formative years in Nigeria that Eribo credits with providing her with a nuanced lens. She describes her home country\u2019s \u201cmyriad expressions of art, tradition, and religion\u201d as hanging in a delicate balance, within \u201ca place that defines itself as a guardian of antiquity but that also has to participate in new and often conflicting technological and social dialogues.\u201d The same could be said of Eribo herself. Whether it\u2019s through a network of smokehouse\/broadcasting studios in Bakassi, which she insists she can find the resources to build, or her more recent studies in the complicity of designers in the transatlantic slave trade, Eribo\u2019s open-minded, multidisciplinary approach seems to benefit more and more from her cultural roots the farther away her passions take her.<\/p>\n

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Eze Imade Eribo; photo by <\/i>Rachel Chandler<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

Words by Paul Keskeys<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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