Tau Tavengwa
Tau Tavengwa is the founder and editor of Cityscapes Magazine, a periodical publication and long-running collaboration with the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town about knowledge, ideas and narratives on the future of cities, society and the built environment from a Global South perspective. He is also a co-founder of CS Studio, a discipline-agnostic urbanism studio focused on developing tools to enable a better understanding of cities from a broad range of perspectives and experiences through experiments.
He is a 2018 Loeb Fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), a 2020-22 Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics’ LSE Cities, and since 2016, Curator-at-Large at African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, and was a Max Planck Institute Fellow in advanced digital visualization. With a background in architecture and design as well as art & architecture publishing, Tau has curated several exhibitions and multiple book projects.
Tau has been a curator on the Lisbon Architecture Triennial among others, and participated in several juries, including more recently, the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023, and Art Electronica’s STARTS Prize.
He is a 2018 Loeb Fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), a 2020-22 Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics’ LSE Cities, and since 2016, Curator-at-Large at African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, and was a Max Planck Institute Fellow in advanced digital visualization. With a background in architecture and design as well as art & architecture publishing, Tau has curated several exhibitions and multiple book projects.
Tau has been a curator on the Lisbon Architecture Triennial among others, and participated in several juries, including more recently, the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023, and Art Electronica’s STARTS Prize.