How can communities outside the Middle East, including diaspora, engage in influencing the decolonization of public space and architecture?
Alongside the exhibition, a panel discussion on the Arab cities of Mosul, Baghdad, Riyadh, Ramallah, Beirut, Damascus and Gaza will take place to unpack their vanishing landscape and the way it is being ‘Dressed and Undressed’. Notions such as Home, re-production, re-construction and re-imagination of space will be interrogated by different researchers through film, drawings and mapping.
This event is FREE and open to all but registration is essential to attend.
To book please go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dressingundressing-the-landscape-panel-discussion-tickets-57315042836
The event will be organised by PART and the panel discussion will be led by PhD students and researchers from the University of Westminster and University College London.
Curator Yara Sharif invites guests to explore the concept behind the exhibition, and its importance as an alternative lens into a world of responsive architectural design.
The discussion will address the social and environmental issues of colonisation, where foreign architecture and spatial design can demolish not only functional space, but with it, layers of history, culture, memory and identity.
Chair : Dr Nasser Golzari
Panelists: Dr Murray Fraser & Yara Sharif
Exhibitors:
- Palestine Regeneration Team (PART)
- Yara Sharif
- Hemali Rathod
- Julia Topley
- Sakiya: Art, Science, Agriculture
- Sahar Qawasmi
- Rim Kalsoum
- Hiba Al-Safi
- Nuha Hansen
- Angeliko Sakellariou
- Dana Nasser
- May Sayrafi
- Samar Maqusi
AWAN, which is about to enter its 5th edition, showcases the work of contemporary Arab women artists in the UK, Europe and beyond, providing opportunities for artists and audiences to celebrate, be informed and network whilst exposing new audiences to the work of emerging and established artists.
AWAN is produced by Arts Canteen and supported by Rich Mix London