Olayinka Dosekun-Adjei, cofounder and creative director of 2023 Design Vanguard Studio Contra, is a featured speaker at RECORD’s forthcoming Innovation Conference on October 26 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City.

Based in Lagos, Nigeria, Dosekun-Adjei will join, among other presenters, several past Design Vanguards on the 2023 Innovation stage, including David Leven and Stella Betts of LEVENBETTS (2007), Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu of Neri&Hu Design and Research Office (2009), Roberto de Leon and Ross Primmer of de Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop (2010), Andrés Jaque (2014), and Miriam Peterson and Nathan Rich of Peterson Rich Office (PRO) (2018). In her talk, “Productive Synthesis: An Approach to Designing Contemporary African Architectures,” Dosekun-Adjei will present two arts projects in Africa—one recently completed and another under construction—as well as discuss Studio Contra’s unique approach to building there. Scroll down to read Studio Contra’s full 2023 Design Vanguard profile. More on the 2023 Innovation Conference, including the full program and speaker lineup along with registration details, can be found here.