Sumayya Vally to curate inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale
South African architect Sumayya Vally has been appointed to the curatorial team for the first Islamic Arts Biennale, which is set to take place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. More
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Mariam Kamara and Sumayya Vally to design presidential library in Liberia
Nigerien architect Mariam Kamara and South African architect Sumayya Vally are collaborating to design a presidential library for Liberia's former president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Monrovia. More
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Watch MYTH and Therme Art's Communion event exploring the mental health benefits of creative collaboration
Dezeen promotion: Serpentine Pavilion architect Sumayya Vally was among the creatives who participated in a recent event hosted by MYTH and Therme Art to discuss the importance of gathering and creative production on mental wellbeing. Watch highlights from the event here. More
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"Recipes are important archives of where we come from and how we've evolved" says Sumayya Vally
In the final instalment of our exclusive video series with Counterspace founder Sumayya Vally, the South African architect discusses the role of recipes in her Material Histories project for the Istanbul Design Biennial. More
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Counterspace's Children's Courtroom installation "teaches children about the justice system"
In the third of our series of exclusive video interviews with Sumayya Vally, the architect discusses how her studio Counterspace's Children's Courtroom project aimed to teach kids about the law, rights and equality. More
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Counterspace's Folded Skies installation aims to explore "the complexities of land"
In the second part of our exclusive video series with Sumayya Vally, the architect discusses how her studio Counterspace's project Folded Skies addresses the complex geographies of Johannesburg. More
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"Counterspace was born out of a desire to create a different canon" says Sumayya Vally
In the first of a series of exclusive video interviews with Sumayya Vally, the Serpentine Pavillion 2021 architect says her studio Counterspace was founded out of a desire to create the kind of architecture she felt was missing from her formal education. More
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Watch a live talk with Serpentine Pavilion architect Sumayya Vally
Dezeen teamed up with the Serpentine Gallery to live stream a conversation between Hans Ulrich Obrist and architect Sumayya Vally of Counterspace about this year's Serpentine Pavilion. More
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Serpentine Pavilion celebrates "places with a history significant to migration" says Sumayya Vally
In this exclusive video produced by Dezeen, Sumayya Vally of Counterspace explains how her design for this year's Serpentine Pavilion references the architecture of London's migrant communities. More
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Sumayya Vally named one of Time magazine's 100 leaders of the future
Sumayya Vally, the founder of South African architecture studio Counterspace, has been named on the Time100 Next list of people "poised to make history". More
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David Adjaye, Ryue Nishizawa and Sumayya Vally to present at The World Around's virtual summit
Twenty architects, designers and filmmakers from 14 cities around the globe will take part in The World Around's 2021 summit, a day of virtual talks that will be live-streamed on Dezeen on 30 January. More
