Acupuncturing Accra is a metropolitan-scale research and mapping project commissioned by and developed with the Foundation for Contemporary Art, Accra (FCA), under the umbrella project Accra Stay by Plan (2026–2027). Selected participants from the I oA and KNUST, Kumasi, together with Accra-based young artists, will collaboratively identify and document a finite set of urban sites—open spaces that mark specific waypoints where everyday practices, networks, and cultural expressions shape the city’s spatial and social life, in the context of Accra’s 150th anniversary in 2027. In its first phase, the mapping process itself constitutes the lab project’s primary outcome. Through a process of network acupuncturing—walking, photographing, flying drones, scanning, mapping, and drawing—it reveals the city’s latent spatial potentials.

Lead: Baerbel Mueller, with Abdul-Rauf Issahaque in collaboration with the FCA and invited guests

Applications are accepted via email and should include your portfolio and bio.

Participation is based on a portfolio selection process, followed by a personal conversation/interview.