In September 2023, the Fi Wi Road interns led the second Fi Wi Road Fair at the University College London (UCL). This year the interns chose to focus on the idea of journeys. Intended as a collective mapping out of Black communities, Black experiences and Black spaces across the globe. The Fair aimed to gather as a collective to understand not only the routes which brought us together, but also what the future holds. See the full in-person 2023 programme or explore our interactive exhibitions:
‘A JOURNEY THROUGH BLACK GEOGRAPHIES’
FI WI ROAD FAIR 2023
Maps & Me: A collaborative counter-mapping workshop
Mapping Fi Wi Road (Our Road): Individual projects
WATCH: Panel 1 - ‘Mapping our voices, mapping our planet: Black voices on climate and cartographies’
WATCH: Panel 2 - ‘In conversation: Victoria Okoye and Nathaniel Télémaque on Visual Methodologies’
WATCH: Keynote Panel - ‘Mapping Fi Wi Road (Our Road)’
‘A Journey Through Black Geographies’ Passport
Behavioural Culture in Orca (Orcinus orca) as a Criterion for Conservation Prioritisation
Behavioural Culture in Orca (Orcinus orca) as a Criterion for Conservation Prioritisation is my postgraduate dissertation research project, undertaken at Birkbeck University of London. Evidence of culture within orca (killer whales) is well documented. Focusing on often complex foraging and social behaviours exhibited by orca, which are socially learned and transmitted within families and communities, my research aimed to establish the importance of this ‘behavioural’ culture in the prioritisation of orca communities for conservation attention.
Black Los Angeles: 1930-2020
Space makes race and race makes place, so the geographer might argue. As our study group at California State University, Northridge explores the history of Black Los Angeles as part of an overall analysis of the case for municipal reparations, we offer this story map as a foundational artifact of any study of Black Los Angelenos.
To what extent are the number of chicken shops linked to deprivation rates in two contrasting areas of Haringey?
This research was a part of my A Level Geography course. I researched the correlation between deprivation and the number of chicken shops. I investigated three hypotheses exploring the link between deprivation and chicken shops, deprivation and ethnicity, and deprivation and environmental degradation. I was inspired to do this research after Priti Patel decided to print the stories of knife crime victims within chicken boxes in chicken shops.
OTOTEMAN TRIPTYCH: PERFORMANCE 1 — CHARYÉ
OTOTEMAN is reborn in the form of a triptych of video performances which will also give rise to in vivo performances. PERFORMANCE 1 — CHARYÉ (Chayé) is a Creole word meaning “carried away, transported”. This is the first movement dealing with the deportation of Jewish and African bodies. At the heart of the reflection, there is the forced migration of bodies, the ghetto and the mass grave.
Oil Bunkering: The Informal Economy of the Southern Nigeria
This paper is an extract from Pleasure's undergraduate dissertation at Birkbeck, University of London. It is aimed at understanding the perspective of Niger Delta Indigenes in Nigeria over the illegal trade carried out in the region.