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Aylesbury to Rye (2024)

Facilitation
Exhibition
A collaboration between ‘Sound in Residence’ by Tobi Ajanaku and ‘Let Me Land’ by Sarah Osei - two projects situated in the borough of Southwark seeking to connect sound to development.

As part of the collaboration, community enabler Nicholas Okwulu and multidisciplinary artist Daniel Oduntan were invited to share their thoughts on Southwark, working-class communities and regeneration with students of the MARCH: Architecture programme, tutors and public. 

The overarching exhibition was titled Removing the Threshold. 

“Removing the Threshold: The body of student work highlighted diverse lived experiences and ‘beyond human’ viewpoints through politically and socially engaged spatial practices. Through these ways of working, students re-evaluated their professional positions and contributions to the existing design hierarchy, creating an alternative manifesto for care-led practice. Thresholds or barriers are often introduced to stop someone or something from entering. They create an outside through the encircling of an inside.’’ - The MARCH: Architecture class of 24’



Images: Henri T Artist


Information

SABO Works is a South London-based architectural and cultural practice founded by Sarah Osei, grounded in lived experiences, multiculturalism and social justice.

Sarah Osei is trained in Architecture and Spatial Practice, working at the intersections of ethnography, policy and architectures through methodologies of the diaspora. Her work is site-specific, amplifying the lesser-heard dialogues of the capital as a means towards celebrating them.  
‘SABO, pronounced [saa-boh], is derived from the Hausa language and means “something new.”

In this context, SABO also functions as an acronym, representing a lineage of names that not only reflects the methodologies of this architectural practice, but also acknowledges a duality of heritages, multicultural identities, and ongoing dialogues deeply rooted in the London periphery - where I was born and raised - but often journeying from beyond’ - Sarah, Amma/Adutwumwaa/Adams, Basoah, Osei.