This space is made possible through the contributions of the distinguished guests hosted in the previous sessions
Backstages [30th March] Film Screening with Chad Freidrichs on the Experimental City, [6th April] Bernard Khoury in an “Untitled..” session, [27th April] Film Screening with Chad Freidrichs on the Pruitt-Igoe Housing Project, [4th May] Léopold Lambert (Funambulist) on the violence and coloniality of architecture, [11th May] Ala Younis on Plan for Greater Baghdad, [18th May] Septembre Architecture on their Milieus, [1st June] Nasser Rabbat on a Hopeful Post-Colonial Moment, Manazil [30th April] Ghadeer Al-Khunaizi on The Experience of Shared Housing of Extended Families, [7th May] Marwa Al-Kooheji on The Diver's Home: an Alternative Archive, [14th May] Ali Ismail Karimi about Housing in the Gulf, [21st May] Omar Al-Shehabi on the History of sponsorship and the "Bachelors' Accommodation" in Bahrain and the Gulf
Agendas moderated by Hala Barakat [8th June] Ahmed Hossam Saafan on Dawar El Ezba, [22nd June] Yasmeen Lari on her Shifting Agendas, Ecologies moderated by Ibrahim Kombarji [13th July] Mohamed Bedri on an Ecology of Resources in Africa, [23rd July] Yara Sharif entitled Ecologies of Spatial Resistance in Palestine, Nostalgia moderated by Fatimah Almuqdadi [3rd August] Madeenah (Deema al Ghunaim and Huda Abdulmughni) on Coordinates of Memory, [10th August] Hanaa Motasim on Displacement and the Perception of Space, [24th August] Screening of “Nostalgia For The Future” followed by a discussion with directors Avijit Mukul Kishore and Rohan Shivkumar, Pleasure moderated by Ashraf Talaat [7th September] Adam Nathaniel Furman on Joyful Deviance, [14th September] Javier Senosiain on Forma Libre (Free Form) [in Spanish with English Translation], the Law moderated by Ashraf Talaat [3rd December] Panel Discussion with Francesca Biancani, Müge Özbek, and Sadaf Tabatabaei on Regulating Morality: Red Light District Zones, Pedagogies of the City moderated by Hala Barkat [25th April] Anna Bokov on the Avant-Garde as Method: Vkhutemas and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920-1930, [9th May] Mark Olweny on Transforming Architectural Education: Experiences from the Faculty of the Built Environment, Uganda Martyrs University, [13th June] Yasmina El Chami on Missionary Competition and the Project of the City in 19th Century Lebanon, [27th June], Panel discussion with Layla Karajica, Ranjith Dayaratne, and Souheil El Masri with a contribution from Hanna Makhlouf on From Engineering to Architecture: an Evolving Program at University of Bahrain, [22nd August] Esra Akcan and Adil Mustafa Ahmad (public interview) on ‘Everything is Possible’: the Architecture Pedagogy at University of Khartoum, [26th September] Magnus Ericson on Urgent Pedagogies, [24th October] Panel discussion with Shaimaa Ashour, Ramy Bakir and Mohamed Elshahed on the Untangling the Egyptian Nexus for Architectural Pedagogy, [21st November] Panel discussion with Kevin Mitchell, Maryam Mudhaffar, and George Katodrytis on the American University of Sharjah: Pedagogies Around the Studio
