Igama lami nguSimphiwe kaMlambo, nasi lesengidvume ngaso!

Simphiwe Mlambo ungum Mfunti Welubumbi Lwemajaha (Candidate Architect), ufundzisa esikolweni, kanye nangum sunguli wesikhatsi webungoti Lebala Lab lobufaka tinkhapani letinyenti. Uphumelele siqu seMfundzi waseMabonakudze (Master’s in Architecture – ngekwehlukanisa kahle) eNyuvesi yaseGoli (University of Johannesburg), lapho tifundvo takhe tebuciko taphindze tabukwa kabusha tindzawo temhlaba teminyaka leyengcile
teMiocene njengetindzaba letiguquguqukile tekutsi kube ngumndeni wemaNguni eNingizimu Afrika.

Njengamanje, usebenta njenge Msetoli Wetincwadzi (Research Assistant) eNyuvesi yaseGoli, e Graduate School of Architecture (GSA), apho entisa kucwaninga lokubalulekile kwemajaha, futsi uhlanganyela ne SARChI Chair for Spatial Transformation eNyuvesi yeTekulima yaseTshwane (Tshwane University of Technology).

Umsebenti wakhe uphenya ngekuhlangana kwebuntfu labamnyama (Blackness), kwekutsi ungubani, kanye nekubulungiswa kwelive (spatial justice) kuyo yonkhe i-Afrika, uphikisana netindzaba takoloni temhlaba, tingcoco kanye nemtimba, ngesikhatsi aphandza indlela lebalulekile lelandzisa tintfo ekwakhiweni kwemajaha.

Etingcokisweni tekuchubeka ngekuhlubuka kwetindzaba takoloni (decolonial discourse), Simphiwe u vele wethula emhlanganweni we-International Conference yeProduction Studies (Newcastle, 2024), kumacembu emfundvo e-Feminist Spatial Practice (Netherlands, 2024), kanye ne symposium ye-From Land Grab to Land Back (South Africa, 2024). Imibhalo yakhe mayelana nekulingana kwelive kanye nekuba ngumndzawonye (spatial equity and belonging) ivele e-Canadian Centre for Architecture, SA Arch Journal, ne-Scape
Magazine (onkhe nga-2024).

Umsebenti wakhe uhlanganisa kucwaninga nekukhombisa: u wine sibone sechipha esibukweni se-Venice Biennale’s South African Pavilion (2023) nge Political Animals, wakhombisa umsebenti wakhe ku Emergent Practice 2 e Goethe-Institut yaseGoli (2024), futsi wabhala ngemihlangano ye-Power Talks on Care (2022).

Professional tags: Nstundu Loname, Umdwebi wemajaha