We are interested in how space, ritual, and collective experience influence the way people see themselves in relation to others and the cities they live in.
Modern cities bring people into close proximity, yet often leave them socially and emotionally distant. As cultural diversity grows alongside fragmentation, we need new ways for strangers to gather, relate, and recognize one another.
Named after the Ibibio word for light, Ikang is a practice of making relations visible: between body and space, stranger and stranger, individual and collective.
The studio is led by Odudu, an architect and artist whose practice sits at the convergence of architectural phenomenology, West African philosophy, performance, and spatial storytelling.
