Sarah Akigbogun

XXAOC Conversations

Arts EN ↓ 3 episodes

XXAOC Conversations, a podcast that seeks to tell the stories of Female Architects of Colour - past and present. Architectural history is manifestly missing female architects of colour. Whilst the US has lots of data on this, in the UK we have only been recording data on race for 10 years. As such we do not know who many of our pioneers were. Who for example was the first Black female Architect? The XXAOC project wants to learn from the US and fill in some of these blanks. Founded by Architect and Filmmaker, Sarah Akigbogun, we aim to work with other groups who share this mission to achieve th...

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Sarah Akigbogun

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'Playing In The Dark' - Architecture, Race & Joy - with Professor Lesley Lokko 13.03.2026 45:02

A special conversation, held with Professor Lesley Lokko, as Part of '25 Years Later - Conversation Across PhD Generations', celebrating 25 years of the design PhD at The Bartlett School of Architecture. With thanks to Professor Lokko, the African Future's Institute and The Bartlett School of Architecture for making this conversation possible.

Dr Sharon Egretta Sutton - Part 2 - 'The Long Trajectory Toward Justice' 08.09.2022 31:06

Our interview with Dr Sharon Egretta Sutton continues, bringing us up to the present day. We left off talking about the atmosphere of revolution in 1960s America and this section goes considers the problems facing architects, students and society today, and what Dr Sutton sees as the urgent disruption required to fix the system.

Architecture As The Revolution 08.03.2022 20:45

In 2019 I started making a film to collect the stories of female architects of colour. Along the way I had some amazing conversations. Our very first Interview with Dr Sharon Egretta Sutton, the 12th African America Woman to Register as an architect, and the first to become a full professor of architecture, she started studying architecture at Columbia University after the race riots of 1968 w...