“Ghellie Blik Stories” with Clint Abrahams
Table Talk
April 10, 2025
6:00 - 7:30pm
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning: TVLab
2000 Bonisteel Blvd.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
In Afrikaans a "ghellie blik" is a found metal object perforated to hold fire, serving as a communal gathering point for storytelling. It symbolizes community in places otherwise defined by infrastructural neglect.
"Ghellie Blik Stories" with Clint Abrahams are dialogues around this fire, exploring the meaning and practice of architecture in marginalized communities. They interrogate whether architecture is an act of being or becoming. They question how one describes, from within, places routinely represented by indifference or distortion, and how alternate languages or practices might articulate such spaces more accurately.
Through narratives centered on objects—a shack, a box, a book—these stories document deliberate actions carried out in Macassar, a community near Cape Town, South Africa. Their intent is to cultivate postcolonial imaginings of collective futures.
Topics:
Unformalization, The Sociopolitics of the Built Environment
Speakers:
Clint Abrahams
Friends:
TVLab
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