Mengeste

Mengeste

Paoletti, Antonio (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)
Pasveer, Casper (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)
Wallace, Gavin (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Mota, Nelson (mentor)
van Andel, F.M. (mentor)
Mooij, H.A.F. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Global Housing

2020-01-31

This graphic novel is the result of a micro-ethnographic research to Kechene, a district of Addis Ababa. Using graphic techniques borrowed from the architecture discipline, this graphic novel aims at bringing together representations of everyday life in the Kechene sefer (neighbourhood), that show how human life shapes its environment and vice versa. This graphic novel not only represents the architectural qualities and spatial relationships, but also reveals the hidden narratives of ordinary stories.
The graphic novel is complemented with a research booklet, which includes some of the key research findings that support the narrative used in the graphic novel. The research booklet is structured as a series of commented images reporting the research methods and the analysis that lead to the elaboration of the graphic novel

Ethiopia
Addis Ababa
Rural-Urban Migration
Dwelling
Visual Ethnography

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This Graphic Novel was produced as part of the MSc3 Global Housing Research Seminar of Architecture & Dwelling from the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment. The course was set up as a supportive educational component in the research project ‘Addis Ababa Living Lab’ (2019-2023), jointly funded by NWO-WOTRO and TU Delft.

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© 2020 Antonio Paoletti, Casper Pasveer, Gavin Wallace