The reconstruction of Al-Nada social housing in Gaza
Reconstruction is often imagined as the counterpoint to destruction. While the two are often seen as opposites, in reality, and particularly that of Gaza, these moments are linked in a cycle. Since...
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APPLICATION DEAD LINE May 8, 2019, APPLY HERE “Architecture is too important to leave to the Architects.” (Giancarlo De Carlo) Education is once again at the forefront of the political struggle for...
View ArticlePermanent Temporariness: book launch and public conversations in Paris,...
May 14, 19:00 – 20:30 Institut Suédois, Stockholm Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti in conversation with Michel Agier, anthropologist and director of studies at EHESS and Kader Attia, artist and...
View ArticleTHE KEITH HARING LECTURE IN ART AND ACTIVISM GIVEN BY SANDI HILAL
November 30, 2017 from 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm CCS Bard, Classroom 102 Al-Madafeh: The Hospitality Room A Lecture given by Sandi Hilal, the 2016-17 Keith Haring Fellow in Art and Activism Located between...
View Article2019 Fall seminars and lectures
STATISTA CONFERENCE 13-16 September 2019, Berlin House of Statistics The House of statistics was built 1968–70 and served as the headquarters of the GDR’s central bureau of statistics. After the...
View ArticleAl Nada neighborhood reconstruction in Gaza: phase I completed
Seventy-five new units have been assigned to families that had their homes destroyed in the Israeli invasion in 2014. Congratulation to the families that can finally enter their new homes. Since...
View ArticleConcret Tent in Rabat
On occasion of the inauguration of the Rabat Biennale in September 2019, the Concrete Tent project traveled to Marocco. The first Concrete Tent was built in June 2015 in Dheisheh refugee camp as a...
View ArticleRefugee Heritage installations in Dubai, Chicago, Seoul and Timișoara
DAAR, Refugee Heritage (2015-2021) Photographic dossier Luca Capuano Photo installation Kendall McCaugherty Chicago Architecture Biennial (September 19, 2019 – January 5, 2020) Chapters and...
View ArticleDecolonizing Architecture Advanced Course (2020-2021): Modernism and...
Application deadline May 5, 2020 The specific focus of this year’s course is to unveil the connections and relations between modernism and colonialism, and to speculate on possible projects of...
View ArticleMutations
Meanwhile, the Israeli government, with the support of the United States of America, is planning to expropriate more land in Palestine, tonight Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem started its mutation...
View ArticleHow will we Return?
Hosted by Alserkal, join the Round table discussion “Mutual understanding” with Mary Ellen Carroll, Lumumba Di-Aping, Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, Katya García-Antón, Basim Magdy, Jahnavi Phalkey...
View ArticleTOWARDS AN ENTITY OF DECOLONIZATION / VERSO UN ENTE DI DECOLONIZZAZIONE
In 1940, the Fascist regime established the “Entity of Colonization of Sicilian Latifundia / Ente di Colonizzazione del Latifondo Siciliano” following the model of the “Entity of Colonization of...
View ArticleDecolonizing Architecture Advanced Course 2021-22: Difficult Heritage
Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti (DAAR), Towards an entity of decolonization. Borgo Rizza. Photo: Luca Capuano, 2020. Decolonizing Architecture at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm is a yearlong...
View ArticleDonghia Designer-in-Residence Lecture by Sandi Hilal
Wednesday 17 March 2021 08:00pm / 2000 PDT GMT-7 Otis College of Art and Design ZOOM This lecture is free and open to the public! e-mail architecturelandscapeinteriors@otis.edu for the ZOOM link more
View ArticleREFUGEE HERITAGE- World Heritage Nomination Dossier
Six years ago, in one of our gatherings inside the Concrete Tent, we asked: do refugee camps have a history? Is the camp just a site of misery or does it produce values that need to be acknowledged...
View ArticleVideo Recording of the Common Assembly: Refugee Heritage Nomination
On the seventy-third commemoration of the ongoing Nakba, May 14, 2021, the Common Assembly of the Stateless Nations and their allies, discussed the nomination to recognize Dheisheh refugee camp and the...
View ArticleOn Stateless Heritage at the Venice Biennale
On the occasion of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale, (22 May to 21 November 2021), the Stockholm-based, artist and architectural collective DAAR – Sandi Hilal and...
View ArticleStateless Heritage at The Mosaic Rooms in London
Stateless Heritage confronts dominant Western conceptions of heritage and presents different narratives, reorienting heritage towards nonhegemonic forms of life and collective memory. Dheisheh refugee...
View ArticleHigher Seminar and book launch on Stateless Heritage at Tensta konsthall,...
The Royal Institute of Art and Tensta konsthall are inviting you to a higher seminar and the book launch of Refugee Heritage by DAAR – Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, with a Photographic Dossier by...
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