PROCESSING...

PROCESSING...

PROCESSING...

PROCESSING is about the act and actions of making. It is dedicated to a belief in the process itself, and that through a meditation on what we can see and what is hidden, what we can feel and what is absent, through mistakes and the histories shared, the product at its end will reflect the complexity and intricacies of its process. However, PROCESSING also means that this process never ends; the world is not static and therefore, neither are we. Through the tools of design, processing utilizes research as method towards creating and PROCESSING the objects and energies that surrounds us, so that what remains at the end, is greater than the sum of its parts.

Architectural and Spatial Design

Graphic Design and Publishing

Design 
Research



Urban Design and Planning

Urbanism Research

Product 
Design

Exhibition Curation and Design

Public Programming and Curation

Jola Idowu is an architect, planner, and artist from Chicago, Illinois. She holds a Master of Architecture and a Master in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a bachelor’s degree with honors from the University of Chicago in Art History and Sociology. 

She served as editor for Thresholds 50, an academic journal published by the MIT Press, and has held internship positions at A3: Archives of African Architecture, Taller Gabriela Carrillo, and The Graham Foundation. 

Currently, her interests revolve around the spatial preservation of coastal narratives in the Black Atlantic, with a focus on the intersections of architecture, art, labor, and familial or community bonds.



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04.2023 : Jola Idowu awarded Fulbright to Senegal where she will be conducting research on the implementation and negotiation of coastal resilience policy and infrastructure in Gorée and Dakar, Senegal.

10.2023 : Jola Idowu presented “Tabi. Tabbi. Tabique. Tabby.” at the Porto Design Biennale in Parque das Aguas from 10/20/23 - 12/03/23.