LUDI is a catalyst for human(e)-centred, inclusive, liveable, and sustainable urban development across African cities. We mobilise people, knowledge, and systems through advocacy, experimentation, and cross-sector collaboration to strengthen urban governance and advance equitable urban transformation. Our work bridges research, policy, and practice, creating spaces where diverse urban actors can collectively shape more just and resilient cities.
One component of this mission is the LUDI Library. The Library responds to the fragmentation of scholarship and practice-based knowledge on African urbanism and architecture. By curating and centralising key texts, research outputs, and critical resources, it provides a structured and accessible knowledge platform for students, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers. In doing so, it strengthens intellectual continuity, supports evidence-informed decision-making, and deepens critical engagement with the specific spatial, social, and governance dynamics shaping African cities.

The Recovery Plan brings to the AAL Lab Affiliates Network a distinctive model of cultural infrastructure rooted in convening, research activation, and Afro-diasporic knowledge exchange. Based in Florence, the organisation has developed a dynamic practice that connects exhibitions, archival inquiry, public programming, and community-led dialogue, while also exploring scalable approaches to documentation, publishing, and long-term research platforms. Its participation in the network strengthens a shared commitment to transnational collaboration and to building more expansive frameworks for African and Afro-diasporic libraries, archives, and artistic research.

OH Institute emerged from a simple reality: over the years, OH Gallery’s work has consistently exceeded the gallery format. Presenting artworks was never the end goal—our practice has also been about producing knowledge, building critical tools, and strengthening the conditions that allow local scenes to author their own narratives. The demands we encountered, archives at risk, fragmented resources, lack of shared frameworks, limited access to professional tools, made one thing clear: a dedicated public-interest structure was needed.
After three years of preparation, we founded OH INSTITUTE as a public-interest organisation responding to a structural gap: ecosystem-building remains insufficient in the face of current and future challenges, while the frameworks, tools, and methodologies required to strengthen it are still scarce and not widely accessible. OH Institute develops long-term programmes, shared working frameworks, and practical tools, while supporting key stakeholders, including public institutions, in capacity building and cultural sovereignty.
The Institute’s activities are structured around six pillars: research and archives; library and publishing; education and mediation; residencies; skills mapping and referral; and third-party missions focused on support, ecosystem structuring, and capacity transfer.

Last week, we welcomed adeoluwa oluwajoba, a Lagos-based mixed media artist and a recipient of the G.A.S. Fellowship Award 2026, for a residency at G.A.S. Lagos. Working across painting, collage, and photographic printmaking, adeoluwa’s practice examines the transfer and reproduction of images, exploring how visual fragments can be layered to create intricate and often disjointed scenes of bodies and landscapes. His work investigates the shifting relationships between image, meaning, and spatial experience.