Staff Profile
Dr Tolulope Onabolu
Lecturer in Architecture
I have a first degree in Architecture from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, an MSc in Urban Design, and a PhD in Architecture both from Edinburgh College of Art/ University of Edinburgh. I am interested in spatial theories, scenography, and experimental and emerging technologies.
My PhD thesis titled ‘Architecture and the Creation of Worlds’, completed in 2010, studied the appropriation of Deleuzian emergence amongst the computational avant-garde from the late nineties, and the form of the amorous following Alain Badiou’s project on Love. The thesis was nominated for the RIBA President’s Research Award. Consequently, my creative and teaching practice has pursued the drawn and narrative form of architecture, where scenography and the mediated form of architecture take precedence over building construction.
More recently, my academic efforts are focused on scenography of the amorous, postcolonial readings of gothic romanticism and the cybergothic, and their parallels with developments in computational mediation in architecture, the posthumanities, and performance studies.