In February and March 2025, Nuku Studio collaborated once again with the University of Development Studies (UDS) and Applied Foreign Affairs on “Tamale’s Inner Urban Ecologies”, a project which explores three sites in Tamale: the old airport, water works and Dakpema Island.
Four students from Afa Alice Bazzichelli, Apoorva Thapa, Yunxi Wu and Malea Noll, two students from UDS, Sadia Halima and Ihsan Chimsi Abubakari, two photographers of our own, Fibi Afloe and Amelie Koerbs, researched the sites from different perspectives over the course of two weeks.
For the project kick off in February, Nuku Studio hosted a “meet & greet” for everyone to get to know each other as well as visit the sites all together. The following days were filled with research, brainstorming sessions, and a public film screening with films by Kush Badhwar on 22 February. Kush Badhwar is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher and currently also a teaching assistant with Applied Foreign Affairs.
The research results of “Tamale’s Inner Urban Ecologies” were presented during an impromptu exhibition at Nuku Studio’s Center for Photographic Research and Practice in Tamale from 26 February to 10 March '2025.