When artists bemoaned “lack of excellence” in Lagos

The participants who made up three work groups on Friday, July 17 addressed issues of sanitation, transportation and housing respectively. The results of the conference were presented to the public on the following Saturday. This was then followed with an exhibition of works by the two young architects James Inedu George and Ayodele Arigbabu. Their […]

The participants who made up three work groups on Friday, July 17 addressed issues of sanitation, transportation and housing respectively. The results of the conference were presented to the public on the following Saturday. This was then followed with an exhibition of works by the two young architects James Inedu George and Ayodele Arigbabu.

Their works depict the current situation in Lagos and provide ideas for future developments which are somewhat like a utopia version of the Fourth Mainland Bridge.

Lagos faces many problems along its way to become the commercial and cultural centre of Sub-Saharan Africa. The mega city in the self-proclaimed “Giant of Africa” most pressingly needs to reinvent the systems that allow human life in such a densely populated form: systems for drainage, waste disposal, health, public transport and others.

On Friday, July 17, a conference of invited experts from both public and government agencies addressed the above mentioned issues and came up with possible solutions. The following Saturday, July 18, these recommendations were presented to and discussed with the general public.

This presentation of the conference results was accompanied by an exhibition by James Inedu George and Ayo Arigbabu. In a combined artistic and architectural approach, they oppose – in form of pictures, models and words – images of the current living situation in Lagos with different approaches on how to improve it.