Ayodele Arigbabu
About
Ayodele Arigbabu is a writer, architect and creative technologist. His work explores the interfaces where design, art and evolving technologies intercept, with speculation as a recurrent strategy.
He is a PhD candidate in Artistic Research at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, where his Forward Remembrance project explores latent utopias through the diverse ways in which artificial intelligence mirrors human aspirations.
Publications
Protopian African Futures: Demas Nwoko’s Tropical Architecture, Natural Synthesis—and Solarpunk
The paper frames the climate-responsive and culturally attuned tropical architecture of Nigerian pioneering artist and architect - Demas Nwoko - as being transcendent of Modern/Indigenous dichotomies, as well as being prefigurative of solarpunk ideals.
Playing Future Narratives: AI-driven Storytelling for Energy Transition Futures
Reflective documentation by the Futuring Together research group on "Playing Future Narratives" - an interactive AI-driven storytelling installation that explores energy transition scenarios situated in Trondheim in the near future.
2024
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Arigbabu, Ayodele;
Krag, Margarita Sofia del Carmen Torrijos;
Rasmussen, Kristian Byskov;
Martinez, Ysabel Olga Munoz.
(2024)
Playing Future Narratives by Futuring Together.
Museum exhibition
UTSTILLING
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Arigbabu, Ayodele;
Krag, Margarita Sofia del Carmen Torrijos;
Rasmussen, Kristian Byskov;
Martinez, Ysabel Olga Munoz.
(2024)
Playing Future Narratives by Futuring Together.
Museum exhibition