Open House Lagos

. NATIONAL HONOUR FOR Ms GOMEZ On 30 January 2025, member of our Advisory Board Aduke Gomez @adukegomez was honoured in Dublin with the Presidential Distinguished Service Award 2024 at the Presidential Palace by Irish President Michael D Higgins. The multifaceted Ms Gomez is a lawyer, historian, literary author and poet, cultural administrator and patriot, creating and nurturing links between Nigeria, Ireland and Brazil. She is Lagosian of Yoruba/Brazilian descent whose mother was Irish. Open House Lagos are proud of our association with her and of her immense contributions to our work and our relationship with Ireland 🇮🇪 #openhouselagos #openhouselagos2025 #ohlagos #ohlagos2025 #architecture #urbanism #design #legacy #heritage #builtenvironment . . .

Last year in November, G.A.S. Lagos, in collaboration with 9H Media (@9h.media ) and Open House Lagos (@openhouselagos ), hosted the ‘7 Speakers 7 Minutes’ lecture series as part of the Open House Lagos Festival 2024. ⁠ ⁠ Initiated by Chuka Ihonor (@chukaihonor ), this edition celebrated ‘Women in Design & Art,’ featuring inspiring talks by Ayaba Ayo-Joseph, Françoise Aramide Akinosho (@faa.designs ), Nengi Omuku (@nengiomuku ), Nengi Nelson (@nenginelson1 ), Marcellina Alpojotor (@marcellina_akpojotor ), Eve Nnaji (@evennaji ) and Claire Idera (@claireidera ). Their insights sparked meaningful discussions on creativity, innovation, and the vital role of women in the arts. ⁠ ⁠ The evening concluded with a book giveaway, networking, and vibrant conversations over food and drinks. ⁠ ⁠ 🔗 Read more in the link in bio⁠ ⁠ #womenindesignandart #gaslagos #openhouselagos #openhouseworldwide #openhousefamily #guestartistsspace #gasfoundation #archdaily #architectsinlagos #9hdesigntalk #7speakers7minutes #ohl #designtalk #artcommunitylagos⁠

. V i s i t Free . The good people at Open House Lagos have arranged for this visit today at 11:00am. Details on the flyer. . . . .

. Ayaba Ayo-Joseph will be speaking about KoleVille Apapa designed by her father, the late Tropical Modernist architect JSK MacGregor at: ‘7 Speakers 7 Minutes’ . by 9H DesignTalk/ Open House Lagos Saturday 30 November 2024 | 17:30h G.A.S. Foundation | 9 Hakeem Dickson Drive | Oniru FREE Attendance. . 9H Media (@9h.media ) collaborates with @openhouselagos Open House Lagos Festival 2024 and G.A.S. Foundation @gasfoundation for the 9H DesignTalk lectures on the theme of ‘Women in Design & Art’. . . Ayaba Ayo-Joseph is a Lawyer who worked as a Banker for 26 years including at Ecobank Nigeria Limited, Magnum Trust Bank Ltd, Habib Nigeria Bank pIc and finally as a CBN-appointed Executive Director of Bank PHB. She has since retired from Banking and is currently a Consultant who runs a ‘Family Office’ offering a total solution to managing the investments, property and trusts that make up a family’s wealth. She is also a Resource Person/Facilitator specialising in Process Re-Engineering and Private Wealth Ayaba is the Chairperson of the Executive Committee, Ebola Containment Trust Fund, a Director of Fiber 1 Broadband and Polaris Bank, as well as a member of the Board of Governors of Corona Schools Trust Council. She also sits on a number of other Public Committees as part of her contribution to Community Development. Passionate about Health and Wellbeing, the Environment, the Arts and People Development (Coaching & Mentoring), she uses her corporate and leadership experience to positively impact and transform persons wishing to grow professionally or seeking a career change. . Event supported by @gasfoundation | @yinkashonibarefoundation . Video: GuardianTV @guardiannigeria . . . . #9hdesigntalk #openhouselagos #openhouselagos2024 #ohlagos2024 #7speakers7minutes #9hdesigntalk #9hmedia #architecture #arquitetura #arquitectura #architettura #architektur #architect #architecturestudent #art #nigerianart #africanart #furnituredesign #lightingdesign #productdesign . #womenindesignandart #ayabaayojoseph .

. Nengi Nelson at: ‘7 Speakers 7 Minutes’ . by 9H DesignTalk/ Open House Lagos Saturday 30 November 2024 | 17:30h G.A.S. Foundation | 9 Hakeem Dickson Drive | Oniru FREE Attendance. . 9H Media (@9h.media ) collaborates with @openhouselagos Open House Lagos Festival 2024 and G.A.S. Foundation @gasfoundation for the 9H DesignTalk lectures on the theme of ‘Women in Design & Art’. . . Nengi Nelson @nenginelson1 is a Lagos-based visual artist, whose works intersect photography and film. She is known for her monochrome photographs that capture the ever-so-palatable and changing Lagos landscape. Using portraiture and documentary-style photographs her works explore herself first then her community through themes like identity, vulnerability and social response/acceptance. She draws inspiration from films, everyday life and issues affecting her immediate community. Her works have been exhibited at the Passport, Lagos Photo Festival (Lagos, 2019); Female Lockdown Views (Virtual Exhibition, 2020); Heinrich Bohl Stiftung solo installation (Lagos, 2021); Women In The City LUDI X HBS, (Lagos, 2022); End Police Brutality; Forme Femine (Virtual Exhibition 2022) etc. She has been commissioned and published, amongst others, by the BBC, Gucci, ATLAS, Etihad, Reuters, Thomson Reuters Foundation, WhatsApp, Centre for Cooperative Investigative Journalism (CCIJ), African Women Board. . Event supported by @gasfoundation | @yinkashonibarefoundation . Video: GuardianTV @guardiannigeria . . . . #9hdesigntalk #openhouselagos #openhouselagos2024 #ohlagos2024 #7speakers7minutes #9hdesigntalk #9hmedia #architecture #arquitetura #arquitectura #architettura #architektur #architect #architecturestudent #art #nigerianart #africanart #furnituredesign #lightingdesign #productdesign . #womenindesignandart #nenginelson .

. Claire Idera at: ‘7 Speakers 7 Minutes’ . by 9H DesignTalk/ Open House Lagos Saturday 30 November 2024 | 17:30h G.A.S. Foundation | 9 Hakeem Dickson Drive | Oniru FREE Attendance. . 9H Media (@9h.media ) collaborates with @openhouselagos Open House Lagos Festival 2024 and G.A.S. Foundation @gasfoundation for the 9H DesignTalk lectures on the theme of ‘Women in Design & Art’. . . Claire Idera @claireidera is an award-winning creative entrepreneur, multidisciplinary artist, and educator. As a leader in art, fashion, and design, she founded the first illustration and design school for designers in 2015, fostering emerging talent. Through CIWorkshop, she has mentored over 500 creatives to discover their unique voice. At Cladini Studio, Claire collaborates with designers worldwide, creating faith-inspired fashion, paintings, and limited-edition pieces that explore spirituality and femininity. Her work is driven by a mission to inspire and connect others with her supernatural expressions. She is Gaby’s mum and wife to Nigeria’s most versatile Actor, Akah Nnani. . Event supported by @gasfoundation | @yinkashonibarefoundation . Video: GuardianTV @guardiannigeria . . . . #9hdesigntalk #openhouselagos #openhouselagos2024 #ohlagos2024 #7speakers7minutes #9hdesigntalk #9hmedia #architecture #arquitetura #arquitectura #architettura #architektur #architect #architecturestudent #art #nigerianart #africanart #furnituredesign #lightingdesign #productdesign . #womenindesignandart #claireidera .

. Eve Nnaji at: ‘7 Speakers 7 Minutes’ . by 9H DesignTalk/ Open House Lagos Saturday 30 November 2024 | 17:30h G.A.S. Foundation | 9 Hakeem Dickson Drive | Oniru FREE Attendance. . 9H Media (@9h.media ) collaborates with @openhouselagos Open House Lagos Festival 2024 and G.A.S. Foundation @gasfoundation for the 9H DesignTalk lectures on the theme of ‘Women in Design & Art’. . . Eve Nnaji @evennaji is an architectural designer, researcher and writer and founder of Add.apt, a practice that utilizes architecture, design, and data as a tool to bridge environmental consciousness with urban development. Her research interests include urban flood mitigation strategies, indigenous intelligence, and alternative material exploration. Add.apt is an architectural practice that was established in 2022 in Lagos, Nigeria. The practice builds architecture that is conscious of itself, its environment, and responsive to the communities it serves. It solves not solely through the transformation of mass, but the transformation of self, grounded in its research and development arm, the Material Lab. . Event supported by @gasfoundation | @yinkashonibarefoundation . Video: GuardianTV @guardiannigeria . . . . #9hdesigntalk #openhouselagos #openhouselagos2024 #ohlagos2024 #7speakers7minutes #9hdesigntalk #9hmedia #architecture #arquitetura #arquitectura #architettura #architektur #architect #architecturestudent #art #nigerianart #africanart #furnituredesign #lightingdesign #productdesign . #womenindesignandart #evennaji .

. Françoise Aramide Akinosho at: ‘7 Speakers 7 Minutes’ . by 9H DesignTalk/ Open House Lagos Saturday 30 November 2024 | 17:30h G.A.S. Foundation | 9 Hakeem Dickson Drive | Oniru FREE Attendance. . 9H Media (@9h.media ) collaborates with @openhouselagos Open House Lagos Festival 2024 and G.A.S. Foundation @gasfoundation for the 9H DesignTalk lectures on the theme of ‘Women in Design & Art’. . . Françoise Akinosho @faa.designs , a French trained architect, grew up in Paris, where her passion for drawing led her to pursue architecture. Trained at the École de la Ville et des Territoires, she developed an approach focused on urban scale, incorporating the dynamics of new cities into her projects. After graduating, she worked in New York for four years at Bernard Tschumi Architects and Archi-Tectonics where she refined her approach to high end design, for interior and architecture. She is the managing Director of FAA (Françoise Akinosho Architectures), describing the style of her practice as ‘contemporary vernacular’ blending modernity with respect for the local context. She has designed Vogue Optique in Paris, Fusion Concept (the luxury male clothing boutique in Lagos) and an ambitious master plan for Abidjan. Her victory at competition for the Kano market featured in specialized international magazines. Her journey, shaped by her French roots and her experience in Lagos, continues to influence an architecture that is both bold and deeply rooted in its environment. . Event supported by @gasfoundation | @yinkashonibarefoundation . Video: GuardianTV @guardiannigeria . . . . #9hdesigntalk #openhouselagos #openhouselagos2024 #ohlagos2024 #7speakers7minutes #9hdesigntalk #9hmedia #architecture #arquitetura #arquitectura #architettura #architektur #architect #architecturestudent #art #nigerianart #africanart #furnituredesign #lightingdesign #productdesign . #womenindesignandart #françoiseakinosho .

. Nengi Omuku at: ‘7 Speakers 7 Minutes’ . by 9H DesignTalk/ Open House Lagos Saturday 30 November 2024 | 17:30h G.A.S. Foundation | 9 Hakeem Dickson Drive | Oniru FREE Attendance. . 9H Media (@9h.media ) collaborates with @openhouselagos Open House Lagos Festival 2024 and G.A.S. Foundation @gasfoundation for the 9H DesignTalk lectures on the theme of ‘Women in Design & Art’. . . Omuku @nengiomuku (b.1987) is a visual artist and founder of ‘The Art of Healing’ charity (TAOH), living and working between Lagos Nigeria and London, trained at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. Her expressive paintings (rendered in oil paint and painted on strips of Sanyan, a pre-colonial western Nigerian fabric that is created from woven threads of wild moth silk and blended with industrial cotton) portray abstracted figures among spectacular celestial landscapes that draw evocatively the natural world, horticulture, and creationism. The blend of oil paint and Sanyan speaks to living between cultures, yet firmly contextualising her work within her local setting of Nigeria. Recent exhibitions include Soulscapes at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London; Aso Oke: Prestige Cloth from Nigeria at Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri; A Corps Defendant at La Galerie Centre d’Art Comtemporain, Paris; The Dance of People and the Natural World at Hastings Contemporary, England. Omuku was awarded the Civitella Ranieri Fellowship April 2024, The Black Rock Senegal Residency 2023, and The World Trade Organisation Residency in Geneva 2021. Omuku’s work can be found in international private and public collections such as the Baltimore Museum of Art; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami); The Whitworth Collection, Manchester; HSBC Art Collection, Loewe Art Collection. . Event supported by @gasfoundation | @yinkashonibarefoundation . Video: GuardianTV @guardiannigeria . . . . #9hdesigntalk #openhouselagos #openhouselagos2024 #ohlagos2024 #7speakers7minutes #9hdesigntalk #9hmedia #architecture #arquitetura #arquitectura #architettura #architektur #architect #architecturestudent #art #nigerianart #africanart #furnituredesign #lightingdesign #productdesign . #womenindesignandart #nengiomuku .

. Marcellina Akpojotor at: ‘7 Speakers 7 Minutes’ . by 9H DesignTalk/ Open House Lagos Saturday 30 November 2024 | 17:30h G.A.S. Foundation | 9 Hakeem Dickson Drive | Oniru FREE Attendance. . 9H Media (@9h.media ) collaborates with @openhouselagos Open House Lagos Festival 2024 and G.A.S. Foundation @gasfoundation for the 9H DesignTalk lectures on the theme of ‘Women in Design & Art’. . . Marcellina Akpojotor @marcellina_akpojotor (b. 1989, Lagos, Nigeria) creates richly textured, layered works exploring femininity, personal and societal identity, familial history and women empowerment through collaging and traditional painting. Utilizing discarded Ankara fabric, she examines its cultural significance and role in memory and shared energy. Akpojotor’s work has been showcased in several exhibitions, including The Flower Show (2023) at L.A. Louver Gallery, Los Angeles, and Narrative as Reality: Constructing an Identity (2023) at Martin Museum of Art, Texas. Her most recent solo exhibition, Joy of More Worlds, was held at Rele Gallery, London in 2024. She was an artist resident at Fountainhead, Miami (2021). She has featured in publications such as CNN, Harper’s Bazaar, BBC, and the New York Times, among others. Marcellina lives and works in Lagos. . Event supported by @gasfoundation | @yinkashonibarefoundation . Video: GuardianTV @guardiannigeria . . . . #9hdesigntalk #openhouselagos #openhouselagos2024 #ohlagos2024 #7speakers7minutes #9hdesigntalk #9hmedia #architecture #arquitetura #arquitectura #architettura #architektur #architect #architecturestudent #art #nigerianart #africanart #furnituredesign #lightingdesign #productdesign . #womenindesignandart #marcellinaakpojotor .

. ‘7 Speakers 7 Minutes’ . by 9H DesignTalk/ Open House Lagos Saturday 30 November 2024 | 17:30h G.A.S. Foundation | 9 Hakeem Dickson Drive | Oniru FREE Attendance. . 9H Media (@9h.media ) collaborates with @openhouselagos Open House Lagos Festival 2024 and G.A.S. Foundation @gasfoundation for the 9H DesignTalk lectures on the theme of ‘Women in Design & Art’. . As another in the ‘7 Speakers 7 Minutes’ tradition, 7 [female] practitioners will speak for 7 minutes each about their work. They represent current thought strands in our local design and culture scene: 2 architects, 1 photographer/filmmaker, 2 artists, 1 multifaceted artist/designer/architect/teacher and a lawyer/company director/keeper of MacGregor House Apapa designed by her architect father JSK MacGregor. . Line-up: . •Ayaba Ayo-Joseph •Françoise Aramide Akinosho @faa.designs •Nengi Omuku @nengiomuku •Nengi Nelson @nenginelson1 •Marcellina Alpojotor @marcellina_akpojotor •Eve Nnaji @evennaji •Claire Idera @claireidera . 17:30 Arrival . 18:00 Introduction message . 18:15 Lectures begin . 19:45 Questions & Answers . 20:00 Close/Drinks/Food/Networking . . An evening of talk, music and merriment within the premises of the G.A.S. Foundation. As with all OHLagos events, it is free to attend. See flyer. . Event supported by G.A.S. Foundation @gasfoundation | Yinka Shonibare Foundation @yinkashonibarefoundation . Video: GuardianTV @guardiannigeria . Graphic Design: @olis12123 . . . . . . #9hdesigntalk #openhouselagos #openhouselagos2024 #ohlagos2024 #7speakers7minutes #9hdesigntalk #9hmedia #architecture #arquitetura #arquitectura #architettura #architektur #architect #architecturestudent #art #nigerianart #africanart #furnituredesign #lightingdesign #productdesign . #womenindesignandart

. OPEN HOUSE LAGOS FESTIVAL 2024 Theme: Women in Design & Art . D A Y 1: Following on from our FRINGE event at University of Lagos yesterday, we kick off our 2024 festival with an afternoon of events at Alliance Française Auditorium at the Mike Adenuga Centre in Ikoyi on Saturday 23 November 2024. We are grateful to @af.lagos for the use of their space and facilities. . Attendance is FREE. . The program is as follows: . 11:30h Arrival of attendees . 12:00 Opening address by Open House Lagos . 12:10 Anecdotal recount of Dublin/Ireland days by @amapeters Ama Peters CEO Visions Optical @visionsopticals Lagos. . 12:25 📽️ Begin screening of ‘Build Something Modern: Irish Contribution To Tropical Modernism in Africa’. . 13:50 Keynote address by @lisa.godson Lisa Godson PhD, Director at National College of Art & Design Dublin, Architecture/Art/Design/Culture historian and researcher titled ‘Build Something Modern: An Irish Perspective On The History And Legacy of Tropical Modernism’. . 14:40 Address by @owenodoherty Owen O’Doherty, the Deputy City Architect of Dublin who will speak on the topic ‘Bright Sparks: Amazing Discoveries, Inventions & Designs by Women’ . 15:30 Presentation of Book Prizes ‘100 Women Architects in Practice’ (RIBA Publications) and ‘Bright Sparks: Amazing Discoveries, Inventions & Designs by Women’ by Owen O’Doherty (signed). Short Presentation/Closing remarks by Advisory Board of Open House Lagos . Details of DAY 2 (30 November 2024) to follow soon. . Supporters: @af.lagos @irlembnigeria @cultureireland @9h.media Friends of Ireland Nigeria . . .