Adrian Lahoud chairs a discussion with speakers AAU Anastas, Dima Srouji and Dana Abbas to consider how the preservation of cultural heritage is a form of resistance to Israeli settler colonialism. They look at how architecture and urban planning have been used to fragment and erase Palestinian territory and the ongoing work to combat this.
About the speakers
Dana Abbas is an architect and researcher based in Palestine. She is part of Riwaq’s team (Center for Architectural Conservation) since 2018, and is a lead architect in The Life Jacket Project aiming at the revitalisation and development of rural Jerusalem. Dana holds a BA in architectural engineering from Birzeit University and an MA in Research Architecture from Goldsmiths University of London.
Born into a family of architects, Elias and Yousef Anastas graduated from Paris with Masters in Architecture. They founded Local Industries in 2012, a community of bold artisans and designers dedicated to industrial furniture-making, and SCALES in 2016.
Adrian Lahoud is an architect, urban designer and researcher as well as Dean of the School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art, London, and co-chair of the Rights of Future Generations Working Group. Previously, he was Studio Master at Projective Cities, Architectural Association, London, and Director of the MA in Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Dima Srouji is a Palestinian architect exploring the power of the ground, its strata, and its artefacts in revealing silenced narratives and embedded intergenerational memories. Srouji is a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture, and in 2016 she founded Hollow Forms.
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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The Mosaic Rooms is London’s free gallery dedicated to promoting and supporting contemporary culture from the Arab world and beyond. We do this through contemporary art exhibitions, multidisciplinary events (including film screenings, current affairs, talks, book launches and more) artist residencies and learning and engagement programme. We work in partnership with local, national and international organisations to disseminate our arts programme to a wide and diverse audience. The Mosaic Rooms are a project of the A. M. Qattan Foundation.
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