Lagos was a city that had been turned against itself. There was a bridge that became the perfect trap for crimes, which began with nails being scattered to cause flat tyres. If the driver stopped, the car would be dismantled in 20 minutes and the parts thrown overboard [to people waiting below]. The system had turned into a kind of destructive device that could be used against people. That was the narrative.

I like fashion, whether or not it's overpriced, because it creates a sense of the sublime with relatively few means.

I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.

But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.

The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.

The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.

Let's put it this way: One can be happy or unhappy in a building. But some buildings make us more depressed than others.