Black Urban Futurities | Activity | MACBA Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona

Architect and urbanist Mpho Matsipa, in conversation with MACBA’s Director and cultural researcher Elvira Dyangani Ose, and geographer Asha Best, propose the city as a space to reimagine emancipatory Black futures.

While urban planning seeks to anticipate and instrumentalize the future, urban life is always multiple and contested. How then have black residents sought to enable a future in conditions where it was thought they had none? In the face of ever emerging technologies of future making, how does blackness interrupt the expected trajectories largely defined by powers external to it?

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From 6 November 2025 to 6 April 2026

Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica