In the final episode of a series co-produced by the Architecture Foundation and The Mosaic Rooms, Alessandro Petti (DAAR) leads a conversation with three architects, researchers and artists whose practices involve the production of models based on real refugee camps. They look at how these reproductions of architectural realities go beyond the Western modern tradition.
DAAR – Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti – is an architectural collective that combines conceptual speculations and pragmatic spatial interventions, discourse and collective learning. The artistic research of Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti are situated between politics, architecture, art and pedagogy.
Wafa Hourani studied experimental cinema in Tunisia. He works with a variety of media that include film, photography, installation, sculpture, performance, music, and poetry. He lives and works between Ramallah and Amman. In 2021 he collaborated with ICRC and created a model (Blackout) that focuses on the humanitarian and living conditions in the Gaza Strip with the implications of the electricity crisis.
Stephan Mörsch is an artist with an interest in reconstructing existing architecture on a scale of one to ten. He is primarily concerned with self-organised building activity, such as the refugee settlements, the so-called Jungles, that are constantly being built in the northern French port city of Calais. He taught in the master’s programme Spatial Strategies at the Weissensee School of Art in Berlin from 2011-2018.
Aya Musmar is Assistant Professor of Architecture and Feminism at The University of Petra in Amman, Jordan. Her transdisciplinary research sits at the confluence of refugee studies, feminist studies and architecture and it aims at contesting the established boundaries of each. She investigates humanitarian response in refugees’ spaces and beyond, thinks of the refugee camp as a spatial phenomenon that embodies world unjust politics.
DAAR’s exhibition ‘Stateless Heritage’ continues at The Mosaic Rooms in London until 30th January 2022. Further details are available at www.mosaicrooms.org
This panel series is presented in partnership with The Mosaic Rooms.
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