Lesego Bantsheng
Lesego Bantsheng is a researcher, landscape architect and urban designer at Maccreanor Lavington, with a keen interest in the rural-urban material and spatial dichotomies across southern Africa. She is the founder and co-director of Rural Futurisms NPC, where she leads critical conversations about rural materiality embedded in rural cosmologies. Her work explores the conditions for collaboration in rural and urban world-building through material exploration, adaptation, and negotiation.
Lesego is also a contributor at Matri-Archi(tecture), an association of spatial practitioners dedicated to the development of African spatial education. Through these practices, she unpacks the local design lexicons of southern Africa and explores their impact on rural-urban mobilities and morphologies. She is particularly interested in the symbiotic relationships between materiality and morphologies as modes of world-making in the face of the climate emergency and social injustice.
Lesego holds a Master’s in Urban Design from The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, and a Master’s in Landscape Architecture from the University of Cape Town. Through her education and continued practice, she explores complex aggregations and collaborations between humans and non-humans, envisioning a futurescape beyond the lens of the Anthropocene.
