The Urban Fable of Informality

  • Publish On 19 January 2023
  • Dorcas Mabanza-Kuma
  • 5 minutes

Dorcas Mabanza-Kuma is a graduate from the architectural school ENSA Versailles. In her final thesis, which won an award from the Maison de l’Architecture Île-de-France, architecture turns into a place between fiction and documentation to question the ways of dwelling that are customarily described as informal. A matter of perspective…

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