The lagoon keeps the ledger: land-making on the Lagos edge

Lagos has always made land out of water — by sand-filling, by dredging, by building platforms on stilts — and the city’s legal records describe only some of it. Drawing on fifteen years of permits, satellite imagery and interviews, this lecture argues that land-making is a continuous, everyday practice rather than a series of megaprojects, and asks what it would mean to plan for a coastline that is always moving.

The lecture opens the symposium and will be live-captioned and recorded.