Podcast appearances and mentions of pierre christophe gam

Conceptual Artist Pierre-Christophe Gam shares his thoughts on the transformative power of imagination to shape reality, the potential of the African continent to become a global leader, and how to dream futures that reflect our individual aspirations and collective desires. Pierre-Christophe Gam is a French-born conceptual artist whose contemporary multimedia installations investigate the future through myths, technology, and dreams. Trained as an interior architect at ENSAD in Paris and CSM in London, he founded TOGUNA WORLD, a digital-native research laboratory that merges art, design, and foresight to decolonise conversations about the future and amplify diverse voices from the Global South. A fellow at the MIT Open Doc Lab, his work has been exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the Vitra Design Museum, the Addis FotoFest, and the Unseen Photo Festival. Bonus episode recorded live from the Dubai Future Forum at the Museum of the Future in partnership with the Dubai Future Foundation on 19 November 2024. Full-Video Version: https://youtu.be/zmQj-tSf52U  ABOUT THE HOST Luke Robert Mason is a British-born futures theorist who is passionate about engaging the public with emerging scientific theories and technological developments. He hosts documentaries for Futurism, and has contributed to BBC Radio, BBC One, The Guardian, Discovery Channel, VICE Motherboard and Wired Magazine. CREDITS In Partnership with the Dubai Future Foundation Producer & Host: Luke Robert Mason Join the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter at @FUTURESPodcast Follow Luke Robert Mason on Twitter at @LukeRobertMason Subscribe & Support the Podcast at http://futurespodcast.net

Designed by Pierre-Christophe Gam, “Sankara, The Upright Man” is a mix-media installation offering an apocryphal retelling of the life of Thomas Sankara, the late president of Burkina Faso. The work can be found here: https://www.pierre-christophe.com/the-upright-man Thomas Sankara was a military captain, a humanist, a pan-Africanist, an ecologist and a feminist who served as President of Burkina Faso from 1983, until his death in 1987, at 37 years old. A visionary and a charismatic figure, Sankara was a leading African voice for the global fight against imperialism and neo-colonialism, launching one of the most ambitious programs for social and economic justice ever attempted on the African continent. Informed by interviews with family members, classmates, Ministers, and peers, the work is a thoroughly-researched and deeply intimate expression of Sankara as a torch-bearer of Africa’s destiny towards self-determination. Always excited by creative deployment of the African archive, Decolonising The Archive caught up with Pierre-Christophe Gam to understand more about the motivations guiding the process of engaging the past to transform the present. Music Credits: Afrikan Sciences: https://afrikansciences.bandcamp.com/ Reggie Dokes: http://www.eureka-artists.com/reggiedokes/ Steve Spacek: https://stevespacek.bandcamp.com/ Bookworms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=76&v=jTkqtFxHC0c

1ière heure : Le niveau de l’eau continue de monter au Nouveau-Brunswick touché par les inondations - Entrevues de Michel Désautels ; Sauver les migrants en Méditerranée - Reportage de Jean-François Bélanger ; Crise politique en Arménie - Chronique internationale de Léo Kalinda. 2ième heure : Les grandes ambitions électriques du Rwanda - Reportage de Janic Tremblay ; Rêver l’Afrique - Entrevue de Michel Désautels avec le designer africain Pierre-Christophe Gam ; Panser le Canada, une histoire intellectuelle de la commission Laurendeau-Dunton - Entrevue de Michel Désautels avec Valérie Lapointe-Gagnon, auteure et professeure à la Faculté Saint-Jean de l’Université d’Alberta.

What role that art and culture can play in Africa ? This is a question that artist designer and curator Pierre Christophe Gam addresses in this podcast from his recent participation to an international symposium on creativity and economical growth in Abidjan, which also touched upon issues of cultural diplomacy and soft power.

A conversation on African Renaissance, through the Afro-Polis and Making Africa exhibitions that London based polymath artist and cultural entrepreneur Pierre-Christophe Gam conceived and helped curated with the ambition to tour in Europe and Africa.