New Models is a lecture series that invites practitioners from different disciplines to discuss how their work can change the models around which society is organised. These conversations will address how we can shift power structures, socio-economic forces and structural inequalities present in society today to give us new tools to rethink the world around us.​
Othering happens though systematic social and political processes which are both explicit and nuanced, entrenched and fluid and which choose targets according to a range of shifting & overlapping criteria; race, gender, class, ethnicity, ability.
What is the role of architecture in the process of Othering of migrant populations in postcolonial Britain? Looking at the architecture of the mosque in particular, this lecture asks how the architecture of migrants and subaltern people might serve as a form of resistance against being continuously placed on the outside and in opposition to.
Shahed Saleem is an architect and writer who teaches at the University of Westminster School of Architecture. His particular research and practice interests are in the architecture of migrant communities, and in particular their relationship to notions of heritage, belonging and nationhood. His book, The British Mosque, was published by Historic England in 2018, and he co-curated the V&A Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2021.
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