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London Design Festival: The Observatory (2024)

Exhibition


The Central Saint Martins Observatory exhibition celebrated “interdependence in creative practice” through a network of people, resources and skills. The exhibition – which took place during London Design Festival 2024 at the Lethaby Gallery – showcased art, design and performance-based works, demonstrating the projects that have been enabled through the institution’s courses. 

Let Me Land was exhibited among several graduate works. As part of the exhibition’s public programme, Sounding: was invited to host an evening of interdependence titled Sounding².



Images: Razvan Dragos / Sounding:


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.