Evoking the Olympic marathon from Rome 1960, in which the Ethiopian runner Abebe Bikila won the first gold medal for a Sub-Saharan country, running barefoot and becoming a sporting legend as well as a symbol of the Africa that was freeing itself of colonialism, Fischer and el Sani have recontextualized amidst Romes rationalist architecture, a new race involving refugees and immigrants staking a claim to their freedom of movement, also understood as the possibility of being welcomed in another country. With Freedom of Movement, Fischer and el Sani show the complexity of ideological, colonial and architectural implications of the iconic Olympic marathon victory of Abebe Bikila and its impact to the present day.