Amahra Spence

Land Black (formerly The Black Land and Spatial Justice Project) is a spatial practice and speculative design studio that prototypes projects at the intersection of land and racial justice, while investing in Black visionaries developing emergent spatial work.

A prominent speaker and practitioner, Amahra has been invited to work with a range of organisations across the world, including British Council, University of Florida and the Government of Indonesia. She has held advisory or consultancy engagements with a range of organisations, including Mission44, Creative Industries Federation, Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Birmingham Museums Trust. She has lectured and spoken at a range of institutions including Birmingham City University, Goldsmiths, TEDxBrum, WCCE and frank Florida.

In her work, Amahra mainly focuses on conditions and prototypes for life-affirming infrastructures; specifically, how transformation is practiced through systems, strategy, governance and space-making.

Projects include ‘ABUELOS’, ‘Architectures of Abolition’, ‘YARD’ and ‘The Black Land and Spatial Justice Fund’.