Over the weekend of 8–10 November 2024, the AA Visiting School Limbo Architecture Lab and Limbo Museum will inaugurate with a summit that brings together a diverse group of architects, artists, and curators. The event will be housed within a 600m² unfinished neo-brutalist estate in Accra.

Invited practitioners include Ibrahim Mahama, Nana Biamah-Ofosu, Tosin Oshinowo and Sofia Pia Belenky, to address one of today's most prevalent spatial phenomena: unfinished buildings and modern ruins. The summit will ask: can these ruins, trapped in a perpetual state of limbo, become sites for new circular, non-extractive approaches to spatial production? And could they inspire a new vision of architecture that is community-led, process-oriented and regenerative?

The summit frames Limbo Museum's future programming as an interdisciplinary research and exhibition space committed to pioneering art and architectural practices. A central pillar of its programming is the Architecture Lab, a collaboration with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), and its first edition takes place in March 2025. The lab tests experimentation, research and interdisciplinary design within unfinished architecture in West African cities and beyond. The project is initiated by Limo Accra’s Dominique Petit-Frere and Emil Grip, AA graduate Lennart Wolff, Programme Director of Limbo Museum’s Architecture Lab, as well as Limbo Museum’s Founding Curatorial Director, Diallo Simon-Ponte.

Image: Limbo Museum, 2024.