In 2025, NW continues to support WAKA Studio, a project by artist Guy Woueté — a dynamic workspace and ongoing research initiative rooted in the Njombé-Penja region of Cameroon.

Architecture Workshops

In April, a first workshop took place with students from ERG (Brussels) and IBA (Nkongsamba), titled Situated Architecture and Postcolonial Material Ecologies. Together, they explored what it means to build in a place shaped by colonial history and contemporary aspirations for modernity. Local materials, construction techniques, social structures, and the political dimensions of architecture were central to the discussions.

This fall, the collaboration continues with a new workshop: Transmissions: How to Make School? How to Make Institution?
Students and teachers from ERG and IBA will engage with questions around knowledge production, institutional structures, and alternative forms of learning. How is knowledge shaped? Who decides what is taught, and how? Grounded in lived experience, they will experiment with shared, horizontal, and circulating learning processes.

WAKA Cinema

On Friday 11 July, we co-organise a public film screening at the Salle des fêtes in Njombé.WAKA Cinema is a vital part of WAKA Studio, dedicated to cinema in all its forms — from documentary and fiction to artists’ film — with a focus on the themes of labour and education.

Once a year, WAKA Cinema brings people together for an evening of viewing, small group discussions, and collective reflection. It serves as an open, discursive platform where artists, filmmakers, local communities, and thinkers meet and exchange ideas.