Publications
de Klerk, Khensani “A Place of Safety”. The Architectural Review: Where do we go from here?, November 2021, pp.64-68
de Klerk, Khensani “Resisting the controlling image”. The Architectural Review: Collage + Old into New, July 2021, pp.74-79
Matri-Archi(tecture) (de Klerk, Khensani Mbanefo, Solange) “Ask yourself, how Smart is Architecture really?” NOW YOU KNOW, Sound Advice, June 2021, pp.84-85
de Klerk, Khensani “An ethos of interdependency”. The Architectural Review: Care + W Awards, Mar 2021, pp. 42-45
de Klerk, Khensani, et al. “A Disruptive (De)Growth Repository of Spatial Practices across Sub-Saharan Africa.” Scroope 29: Manifesto, no. 29, 16 Dec. 2020, pp. 78–85.
de Klerk, Khensani “We Are Stretched from Margin to Centre”. The Architectural Review: Self Built Housing + AR House, Dec 2020, pp. 26-31
de Klerk, Khensani & Mbanefo, Solange “Wakanda’s Afro-Futuristic “Masterplan”: An Ecosystem of Flexible BIM Structures for Urban Nomads”. Archdaily [available online], 15 Oct 2019
de Klerk, Khensani. “The Intersectionality of Spatial Practice”. Atlantis Magazine for Urbanism & Landscape Architecture by Polis TU Delft, vol1, Oct 2017, pp. 33-34
Talks
2022 Loudreaders Session 31 hosted by Loudreader Trade School by WAI Think Tank [watch here]
2022 her(e) otherwise invited by saay/yaas walk and public talk at arc en rêve centre d'architecture, Bordeaux, France [watch here]
2021 Dept. of the Ongoing. Curriculum Workshop at Technische Universität München [online] organised by Prof Meike Schalk and
2020 Josiane Schmidt
2021 Building Beyond Type: Summer School on Collective Strategies for Just Cities hosted by Permanent Brussels [watch here] We Are
2020 the City: Towards a Fluid Spatial Lexicon.
2021 Space of Other Talk in Who is We? Multiplicity of Other Netherlands pavilion by Afaina de Jong, conversation, Venice Bienniale,
2020 Italy [online]
2021 Critical Perspectives on Spatial Practice panel [with Dr. Ghazal Jafari and Ana María Durán Calisto]
2020 at LABash Conference, Cornell University, US [watch here]
2021 Collectivising! presentation in Blueprint for Decolonisation symposium [hosted by the Architecture Foundation and Asian
2020 Architects Association] London, UK [watch here]
2020 Matri-Archi on alteration, transformation, diversity guest lecture Parity Talks V, ETH Zürich, Switzerland [online]
2020 arquiteturas do sul global: on Research as Practice guest lecture, Escola da Cidade, Brazil [watch here]
2020 100 Day Studio: Southern Ecosystems guest lecture, The Architecture Foundation, London [watch here]
2020 100 Day Studio: Dismantling the Master’s House: Bringing Intersectionality to an Architecture School, The Architecture
2020 Foundation London [watch here]
Teaching
2023 Urban Design Otherwise: Towards anticolonial design: urgency, methodology and diffractions. UCL Development Planning Unit,
London UK (online). Disruptive by Default: Design in Everyday Spatial Practices
2022 Blackerblackness guest lecture + workshop, hosted by Ola Hassanain and Simone Zeefuik at Sandberg Insituut, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
2021 ETH Zürich, the Chair of Affective Architectures, You’re Not My Type hosted by the Department of the Ongoing, Regensdorf
2020 Zürich. We Are the City: Towards a Fluid Spatial Lexicon.
2021 University of Nottingham, Architecture Department Unit 2 Design and Build Studio. Nottingham, United Kingdom. Spatial
2020 Storytelling: Conduit + Vessel.
2021 InvestIn: The Young Architect Summer Internship Programme. London, UK [online] tutoring
2021 University of Cape Town, School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics BAS Design Studio 1 hosted by Dr. Huda Tayob [online]
2020 Spatial Storytelling: Conduit + Vessel.
2021 University of Cape Town, School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics BAS Cultural Landscapes #3 hosted by Prof. Tomà
2020 Berlanda [online] Spatial Storytelling: Conduit + Vessel.
Features, interviews, contributions
2021 Kontextur Interview: Khensani de Klerk [interview]
2020 Archdaily: Spatial Education and the Future of African Cities: An Interview with Matri-Archi [interview]
2020 Dezeen: Ten architecture projects by University of Cambridge undergraduate and
postgraduate students [project feature]
2020 Beautiful News: meet the architects of freedom [news documentary]
2020 Residency 11:11 by Mmakhotso Lamola [podcast guest]
2019 South African Property Review: The Voice for The Industry [interview]
2018 KunstMuseum Bern: U5 – House Of Sentiments – Part 2: Talking About Space, Collaboration And Process [interview]
for collaborations, invitations and more information, email: khensanideklerk.work@gmail.com
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