We are a creative design practice working out of Lagos Nigeria. MOE+ Art Architecture was established in 2014 and is a collaborative practice focused on architecture, design and artistic production.
Our aim is to enhance the standard and possibilities for a qualitative, value driven and pragmatic design process across the continent through a collaborative human and environmentally sensitive practice. A process that embraces local solutions and aspirations. Focusing on context, culture, materiality and ecology.
MOE+ Art Architecture has decades of experience in strategic, innovative and value driven explorative design for private, cultural institutional, NGOs, commercial clients and community partners.
We continue to renew and redefine who we are as an organisation, by the process of our cultural and social participation in how we make things and with who. We explore design through the lens of culture, nature, nurture, education, visibility, representation and society.
We work with a focus on locality and shared knowledge, starting with the understating of the historical and environmental context in which things exist.
Navigating between small and large-scale, civic, private and commercial projects. Our first task is always to understand who our clients and end users are, and what they need. This in-depth strategic study, explores civic, business and personal cultures.
Our approach is focused on engaging in a discourse across disciplines while understanding places and people, from there we build the narrative arch for engagement. We do this through what we call ‘overlapping rings’ with writers, historians, artists, architects, urban specialists, architects, environmentalist and film-makers. This strategic approach allows for what we believe to be a continuous engagement through a non-linear process.
We are driven by the collaboration between art and design and work with our clients to identify and define not just the aspirations of their project but the opportunity to engage them in a process that allows for a wider contextual collaborative approach.
Our focus is to investigate how our work can move towards creating more sustainable equitable futures through our process of creative engagement.
Though our language remains in conversation with the ‘global’ world, our voice is resoundingly our own; inspired by our people, culture, art and our engagement with the environment (whether it be Lagos, Cotonu, Dakar etc). Thus working within these existing conditions, we aim to provide places within the diversity of African cities and beyond.
MOE+AA has an office of urbanists, architects, artists, interiors + product designers. The office is not just about the need to express creativity. It’s ultimately about people and our responsibility to each other, our environment and the constant dialogue between need and aspiration, the ecology and design exploration, sustainability, collaboration and the questions about the process of how we make places and objects.
MOSUN OGUNBANJO
Founder/Business Director
PAPA OMOTAYO
Creative Director
NNAMDI AKUBUIRO
Studio Director
ADEFOLARIN SALAMI
Finance Director
ISI ETOMI
Design Project Lead
OLUWADAMILOLA AKINNIYI
Lead Design Consultant
ADENIKE BAREK
Head of Administration
QUADRI SORUNKE
HAFSAT YUSUF
Office Administrator
ZIMUZO BENNETH
Architectural Assistant
ZAINAB MEBUDE
Architectural Assistant
ANIDI ONYINYECHUKWU
NYSC InternMOE+ run two social and capacity development programs, ‘Made Better by Design’ and ‘Building Women’.
MADE BETTER BY DESIGN
Working with a series of NGO such as ChildLife Line and Sesor Africa, we aim to use design to help create sustainable and viable futures for our partner organisations. Whether that be creating vocationa centres or working to restructure and redesign IDP camps.
BUILDING WOMEN INITATIVE
A woman is a change-agent. She can inspire sustainable transformation for herself, her family and her entire community. But first, she needs to be given an opportunity.
BWI is a Foundation established to empower women with skills and competencies in the building construction trade
Aims/ Objectives:
- To empower women through skills acquisition in the building / construction sector
- To raise a new generation of female entrepreneurs in a traditional male work environment
- To provide and create awareness and advocacy of the need to encourage girls and women to go into the building / construction sector
- Encourage the players in the sector to adopt a gender- friendly approach programmes and encourage schools and institutions to increase female intake
