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Maame Adwoa Prempeh is an architect based in Ghana. Maame holds a bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science. Her practice focuses on centring underprivileged communities and their needs while exploring architecture under three broad narratives: design, research, and advocacy. With an interdisciplinary practice, Maame uses design to underline the necessity of fostering partnerships between art and architecture. Through collaborative projects with artists and art institutions, she’s designed and curated exhibitions on the African continent.
Guided by a community-led and participatory design approach, her current work focuses on investigating the erasure/absence of communal play spaces within the rapid urban expansion of Accra. Through her "Agoro Apata" intervention series, she explores play sheds as contextual solutions to the absence of well-designed communal play spaces in underprivileged communities and schools as a means of bridging the lack of access to play spaces within these communities. Maame is a firm believer in making architecture a more socially-engaged and people-centred practice, and using design as an effective platform for creative expression.
