Mpho Matsipa

Mpho Matsipa is an educator, researcher and curator. She received her PhD in Architecture from UC Berkeley. She has taught at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, Columbia University and the Cooper Union and GSD, Harvard University. She has curated several exhibitions and discursive platforms, including the South Africa Pavilion at the 11th, an installation at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale, and at at the Architecture Museum, in Munich, and Studio-X Johannesburg. She founded the African Mobilities podcast series with support from the Goethe Institut , KSB and the Andrew Mellon Foundation. She has written reviews on public art, culture, and space. Her research aim to creatively and critically re-imagine the links between the the spatialities of resource extraction, geopolitics and design in through new vocabularies and Black counter-cartographies in the face of resource extraction and ecological precarity.

Mpho was a Loeb Fellow (2022) at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, and a Chancellors Fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.She is currently an associate curator for the Lubumbashi Biennale in the Democratic Republic of Congo (2024).