Cyprian Boateng

Cyprian began his first year at the RCA in ADS 3, under the tutelage of Alon Schwabe and Daniel Fernandez Pascual where he developed an interest in exploring how design can engage with deconstructing the perceived boundaries between matter, bodies, and spaces, while considering the processes that have emerged as a result of logistical and geopolitical systems entangled within them, identifying this as a new field of action for spatial practitioners. Influenced by his time spent studying at École Nationale Supérieure d 'Architecture de Paris on the Erasmus scholarship, his work spans across a range of artistic mediums, particularly that of film, animation, and painting.

Graduating with the first-class honours in 2017, Cyprian went on to spend a year working at Hawkins Brown Architects before going on to spend a further year in Tokyo working on climate-specific humanitarian centred projects at Shigeru Ban Architects. A recipient of the Stephen Lawrence Charitable trust Class of 2020 and 2021 Bursary, he currently freelances for the trust in projects working on new and exciting ways to engage a new demographic in the shaping of their own neighbourhoods.

LTE: The 4g telecommunication that provide mobile service

SOUP: (verb). To improve the power or efficiency of something

The entanglements of the technology industry far exceed the borders of countries or even devices. Digital infrastructures, extending their reach into multiple territories, an omnipresence of surveillance, extraction, and storage. It is a global, continuous operation transgressing multiple scales and bodies. Producing enclaves and urban mutations in its wake.

The project investigates the role of technological infrastructures in aiding political power, and their use to control bodies in space. Looking specifically into the existing innovations of communication and networks of conversation. It draws on the heritage of the Ghanaian spectacle and its roots in resistance.

LTE SOUP is a strategy acknowledging Ghanaian cries of woe and amplifying them as cries of joy and celebration through recognition and support of the existing resistances at tip toe lane, where the bodies are reclaiming the spectacle and their spaces alike. The proposal unfolds architecturally through festival and ruin architecture whilst people become the central infrastructure for for resistance as the interact and activate the technology around them.

Final Film can be found below and at this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihw6JrmTH8Y&ab_channel=CyprianBoateng