The project’s resulting publication, launched in April 2024, unfolds in two parts: the first is a collection of four written and photographic essays; the second, a speculative design proposal for a heritage site – the Osu Salem Presbyterian Primary School – in Osu, Accra.
The goal of the speculative proposal is to restore the school’s building fabric as a significant heritage site in line with the learnings of the wider research project. In doing so, the design project becomes a methodological tugboat for a transferable, scalable heritage regeneration approach. One based on a hybrid act of looking, learning, and acting directly on what has been jointly discovered. The team is now working to raise funds for the actualisation of the design proposal, promoting the revival of the Osu Salem building as a prototype for the wider project’s learnings.
Title: Valletta Accra
Authors: AP Valletta, David Kojo Derban, Ann Dingli
Publisher: Lema Press
2024, 136 pages, English
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