Hunguta design is collaborative
assembly of architects, designers and multidisciplinary artists loosely centred
between Cape Town, Harare, Kampala, Johannesburg and Zurich.
Tomà Berlanda is an architect and
Professor of Architecture at the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics
at the University of Cape Town (UCT). A scholar with extensive international academic
and professional experience, he pursues research interests focusing on the
implications that can be drawn from a non-stereotypical reading of urban and
rural topographies in Sub Saharan Africa, and the socially engaged practice of
architecture. He was co-founder of ASA studio (2012-14) and is now co-founder
of a studio.space.
Nerea Amoròs Elorduy is
an architect and researcher
native of Barcelona. She
focuses her professional
and academic work on the
link between architecture,
place making and human
well-being. She taught and
contributed to create the
School of Architecture at
the University of Rwanda
and co-founded ASA
Studio based in Kigali and Creative Assemblages in Kampala that designed and built
educational and health
projects with emphasis on
participation. Her PhD
research explored how
the built environment of
long-term refugee camps
in Eastern Africa affects
young children’s learning.
Khensani de Klerk is a junior architect and planner from Johannesburg, South Africa. Her efforts are centred on one core principle: to normalise Architecture as a tool that allows multiple identity groups to be active designers of space. She received a Bachelors in Architecture and Bachelors of City Planning (hons) from UCT. She has been a research fellow at ETH Zürich and has worked for Urban-Think Tank, Zürich and Local Studio, Johannesburg. Khensani is the founder and co-director of Matri-Archi(tecture) and a director at the Youth in Property Association (YIPA), South Africa. She is currently pursuing an MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design at The University of Cambridge.
Tao Klitzner is a postgraduate Architecture student at the University of Cape Town where
she is a member of the Space of Good Hope research studio that focuses on community engagement in Delft, Cape Town. Her research dissertation Water as Urban Nature's Suture, furthers her interests in the
exploration of ecologies as lens for architectural intervention – both as
a means of interrogating and questioning past, present and potential future
paradigms – in conjunction with an engagement of iterative architectural
processes. Klitzner has participated in socially engaged work at the university
(Archifemme) and previously in community youth programmes as well as interfaith
initiatives as a tutor, councillor and student.
Scott Lloyd is an architect and urban researcher based in Zurich. He has worked in Switzerland, China, Australia and South Africa on architecture, research, publishing and curatorial projects. He holds a Masters Degree in architecture from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) where he was engaged in design research on fundamental architecture and the global city with the Urban-Think Tank. With the group he coordinated the research and implementation project for alternative housing prototypes and upgrade methodologies in Cape Town, South Africa. The project was awarded the 2017 UN-Habitat Best Practice in the Built Environment. He is currently director of the board for the architecture research group TEN.
Maxwell Mutanda is a pluridisciplinary artist/researcher/designer whose architectural based practice promotes sustainable participatory design. He is a cofounder of the design research firm Studio [D] Tale that explores social and environmental issues across disciplines including urbanisation, transit, migration and product innovation. Mutanda studied Architecture at the Bartlett, University College London. He has exhibited internationally including at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Copenhagen), Arc en Rêve Centre d'Architecture (Bordeaux), the 2014 and 2016 Venice Architecture Biennales and the 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial. He is a past IdeasCity New Orleans fellow (2019), AFRICA’SOUT! Artist in Resident at Denniston Hill (2018), and British Council ColabNowNow Resident (2018).
Sunniva Viking is an architect
and urban designer based in Cape Town, with extensive international professional
experience of working in Europe, Asia and Eastern and Southern Africa. She is
the co-founding partner of a studio.space and Studio Sun in Cape Town, South
Africa. She holds a M. Arch from KTH (2002), Stockholm, and an MA in African
Studies (2010) from SOAS, London. She is currently consulting in supporting
participatory design and building processes for Early Childhood Development
Centres (ECDs) in remote villages in eastern Zambia.