Cultural Intellectual Association Lagos

Nigeria

In 1999 a loose group of creative individuals drawn from architecture, art, photography, design and fashion came together under the moniker: CIA - Creative Intelligence Agency to talk shop and do 'something' for the impending millennium. They met, they ate, they moaned, they posited and they did. With hyper-inquisitive students in tow, they set out to reshape design perceptions, and rejig the status quo. Lagos 2000 a resource document re-determining Central Lagos, and containing proposals like Freedom Park (realized 10 years later) a transport Interchange, predictive use of the flyovers, was our collective response. Today the group has been renamed Cultural Intellectual Association and though it continues to maintain a flat, non-hierarchial structure; it also lists Theo Lawson, Koku Konu, Goke 0sibodu as President, General Secretary and Treasurer respectively. 

Source:

Cultural Intellectual Association Lagos, Okonkwo, Tobe Okonkwo, and Toyin Oluwatuyi. 2020. Unknown: CIA Lagos of 1999. Edited by Baba Oladeji. 1st ed. Lagos, Nigeria: A3 Archives of African Architectures.