Tag: Palestine Regeneration Team (PART)

Unsettled Subjects: “Cultivating Hope 1: Palestine Regeneration Team x Adam Khan” | Monday, March 25, 2024 at 18:00 in M416 (Robin Evans Room)

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When: Monday, 25th of March 2024 at 6pm

Where: M416, Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS

Cultivating Hope: Conversations on Palestinian art and architecture is a series of talks, gatherings and discussions — convened by Unsettled Subjects — aimed at developing an understanding of cultural production and reflection from Palestinian practitioners.

The first event in the series features architects and educators Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari, founding members of Palestine Regeneration Team and more recently, Architects for Gaza, in conversation with Adam Khan, principal at Adam Khan Architects.

Join a community of artists, architects and thinkers committed to dismantling the systemic and structural legacies of imperialism, colonialism and slavery within and beyond the built environment; together, we cultivate hope.

Feel free to bring dates/ snacks/ water for Iftar which will be at 6.24pm

Book tickets here.

Book Launch + Webinar: “Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope” | Thursday, June 10 , 2021 at 18:00 (BST)

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Please join MArch DS22 tutors and the founders of Palestine Regeneration Team, Senior Lecturers at the UoW, Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari, on the 10th of June 2021 at 6pm (BST) for a webinar and a book launch for Open Gaza: Architectures of hope, co-edited by the late Michael Sorkin and Deen Sharp.

In an attempt to cultivate hope, a group of scholars got together to explore imaginative spatial scenarios to heal the fractured city of Gaza. While we share some of the work, we will also be discussing the wider subjects of Architecture of Care and the Right to the City.

The event hosted by the Head of School of Architecture + Cities, Professor Harry Charrington, is a tribute to Michael Sorkin and a testament to his insistent cry for a right to the city and a spatial justice for all.

The event is part of London Festival of Architecture.

For further details and to register for the event please go to Eventbrite.

“Secrets of a Digital Garden: 50 flowers, 50 villages” curated by DS22 tutors Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari at the Chicago Architecture Biennial, 19 September 2019 – 5 January 2020

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Dr. Yara Sharif and Dr. Nasser Golzari from the School of Architecture + Cities will be taking part in the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial.

In a collaborative project with Riwaq: centre for architectural conservation, Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari will be curating the exhibition entitled Secrets of a Digital Garden: 50 flowers, 50 villages.

Secrets of a Digital Garden is a future imaginary scenario set up in rural Palestine in the form of a digital garden with 50 interactive flowers representing 50 Palestinian villages. The work draws on their collaborative work with Riwaq on revitalising 50 Palestinian historic fabrics and their on-going research by design as founders of NG Architects and Palestine Regeneration Team (PART).

Nothing is conventional in this garden. 50 slices of earth containing ‘digital’ flowers will be brought to Chicago to narrate the absurd dis-connectivity of Palestine and the attempt to reclaim it through the 50 Villages Project. Underneath the surface, a process of production is in place. Capsules containing physical and digital DNA is trapped in each flower to capture and share the story of the 50 Villages.

The exhibition explores new means to navigate the landscape of Palestine using digital fabrication and film.

https://chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org/news

The 2019 edition of Chicago Architecture Biennial is directed by Yesomi Umolu and is titled ‘ …and other such stories’.

The opening will take place on September 19, 2019, and will stay open till January 5, 2020.

The event promises to form an expansive and multi-faceted exploration of the field of architecture and the built environment globally. Developed through a research-led approach, the curatorial team Paulo Tavares, Sepake Angiama — led by Umolu — draws on the spatial, historical, and socio-economic conditions of Chicago to consider questions of land, memory, rights, and civic participation…’

Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari are award-winning architects and academics with an interest in design as a mean to facilitate and empower ‘forgotten’ communities, while also interrogating the role of architecture politics and social commitment. Combining research with design, their work runs parallel between the architecture practice NG Architects, London and the design studio at the University of Westminster and their design-led research group Palestine Regeneration Team (PART). Their work has been exploring new means to rethink the Palestinian landscape through speculative scenarios and live projects.

Their work has won the RIBA President’s Award for Research amongst other awards.

The installation is done with the support of the University of Westminster and the Fabrication Lab, Golzari NG Architects, London and Palestine Regeneration Team (PART).

Panel Discussion: “Dressing / Undressing the Landscape” with DS22 tutors Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari, Rich Mix, Saturday, March 9, 14:00-16:00

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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

Exhibition Opening: “Dressing / Undressing the Landscape” curated by DS22 tutor Yara Sharif, Friday, March 1, 18:00-20:00, Rich Mix

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When: Friday, 1st of March 2019, 18:00 – 20:00 GMT

Where: Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA

 

Dressing/Undressing the Landscape explores means to rethink the current cultural landscape of the Middle East.

In a dialogue between architecture, art and spatial design, female architects and artists from the Arab world and beyond, bring forward new insights to the cities of Gaza, Mosul, Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut, Ramallah and the rural villages of Palestine.

The works provoke the current geography of the Middle East and the way it is being represented, exploited and imagined — especially with the on-going colonial project that continues to dress it with alien layers and new sceneries.

The contributors question through design, what might a landscape crafted by women be like? They offer alternatives that resist the legislated power of men, the power of war and the power of image, which have been constantly reinvented.

In the cities of Mosul, Damascus and Baghdad Dressing/Undressing the Landscape goes beyond the surface to cultivate hope; contributors share the beauties of everyday life and the hidden agencies that shape their cities.

In Palestine, Undressing the Landscape is a way to expose the hidden potentials of the ‘edges’ and what has become a leftover landscape. In Beirut however, the work reveals the naked reality of what appears to be a ‘magical’ setting; it narrates the underground life of Syrian Refugees.

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

This exhibition is curated by Yara Sharif from Palestine Regeneration Team (PART).

It will be accompanied by a panel discussion on Arab cities and the making, redefining and reclaiming of public space, on 9 March 2019 as part of Arab Women Artists Now Festival @ Rich Mix main space from 14.00 – 16.00pm.

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. www.awan.org.uk

AWAN is produced by Arts Canteen and supported by Rich Mix London

This private view of the “Dressing/Undressing the Landscape” exhibition 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-tickets-56815700289?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

 

DS22 Students Participate in “Here, There, Everywhere” Exhibition _ Opening at P21 Gallery, Tonight 7th November at 6.30pm

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Artists, architects, actors, teachers, photographers, film makers and families get together in London and Gaza to inaugurate the exhibition Here, There, Everywhere.

Join us at P21 gallery 6.30 pm today –with a live streaming from Gaza at 7 pm — and get a taste of the work from an adaptation of of Tolstoy’s War and Peace to installations by postgraduate students of architecture from DS22 University of Westminster, to self-build initiatives for reconstruction by Palestine Regeneration Team (PART), the works will reflect on moments of hope to celebrate life.

This is part of a great initiative by Az Theatre to mark 10 years of collaboration with Gaza.

Event Curator: Jonathan Chadwick

When: 7th November 6.30pm

Where: PS21 gallery, 21-27 Chalton Street, London NW1 1JD

Read more here.