Ikang is a design and applied research studio that treats space as a social act. We design the conditions for belonging
Many people now live close together, but feel increasingly disconnected and isolated. In modern cities, where cultural diversity often exists alongside social fragmentation, we need new ways for strangers to gather, relate, and recognize one another.
Named after the Ibibio word for light, Ikang is a practice of making relations visible: between body and space, stranger and stranger, individual and collective.
The studio is led by Odudu, an architect and artist whose practice sits at the convergence of architectural phenomenology, West African philosophy, performance, and spatial storytelling.