[A]FA EXHIBITION | Tamale´s Inner-Urban Ecologies

TIUE investigates three distinct urban sites through field research, artistic practice, and interdisciplinary analysis, revealing the coexistence of human and non-human life as well as the structures and narratives shaping these spaces.

[A]FA’s Tamale Old Airfield Tree Transplanting Project transforms a section of the former airfield into a public landscape, planting mature savanna trees to soften the harsh terrain and create collective, shaded spaces. A video documentation presents the complex transplanting process carried out in May 2025. Extending the research beyond Ghana, the Atlas of Habitats explores multi-species and speculative ecologies, imagining beings that exist at the threshold between ecosystem and imagination

Together, these projects form a constellation of [A]FA’s spatial, ecological, and transdisciplinary work, inviting reflection on the agencies and temporalities that shape urban and environmental futures.

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[Applied] Foreign Affairs (AFA) is a transdisciplinary lab at the University of Applied Arts Vienna’s Institute of Architecture, exploring spatial, infrastructural, environmental, and cultural phenomena in rural and urban contexts across Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, founded by Baerbel Mueller in 2011.