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] With Bernard Khoury entitled “Untitled..” [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] Professor Nasser Rabbat on a Hopeful Post-Colonial Moment Manazil [April 30] Ghadeer Al-Khunaizi on The Experience of Shared Housing of Extended Families [7 May] Marwa Al-Kooheji on The Diver's Home: an Alternative Archive [May 14] Ali Ismail Karimi about Housing in the Gulf [May 21] 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] Conversation with 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] Conversation with 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] Conversation with Adam Nathaniel Furman on Joyful Deviance [14th September] Conversation with Javier Senosiain on Forma Libre (Free Form) [in Spanish with English Translation] the Law moderated by Ashraf Talaat [December 3] 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 Conversation with Anna Bokov on the Avant-Garde as Method: Vkhutemas and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920-1930 [25th April], Conversation with Mark Olweny on Transforming Architectural Education: Experiences from the Faculty of the Built Environment, Uganda Martyrs University, [13th June ] Conversation with Yasmina El Chami on Missionary Competition and the Project of the City in 19th Century Lebanon, [27th June] From Engineering to Architecture: an Evolving Program at University of Bahrain with Layla Karajica, Ranjith Dayaratne, and Souheil El Masri with a contribution from Hanna Makhlouf, [22nd August] ‘Everything is Possible’: the Architecture Pedagogy at University of Khartoum, public interview: Esra Akcan interviewing Adil Mustafa Ahmad, [26th September ] Conversation with Magnus Ericson on Urgent Pedagogies, [24th October], Untangling the Egyptian Nexus for Architectural Pedagogy with Shaimaa Ashour, Ramy Bakir, and Mohamed Elshahed.