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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231019T173000
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URL:https://ssa.ccny.cuny.edu/events/fall-2023-sciame-lecture-series-noam-
 shoked/
SUMMARY:POSTPONED - NEW DATE TBA\; Fall 2023 Sciame Lecture Series: Noam Sh
 oked
DESCRIPTION:Please note this lecture has been postponed. A new date will be
  announced. \n\nThis lecture will be in person and is part of the Fall 20
 23 Sciame Lecture Series\, titled "Crosscurrents: Architecture\, Landscape
 \, and Spatial Practices in Southwest Asia and North Africa."\n\nNoam Shok
 ed is a scholar of the built environment. His work focuses on the relation
 ship between politics and architecture in Israel and in the occupied Pales
 tinian territories. His book\, In the Land of the Patriarchs: Design and C
 ontestation in West Bank Settlements (University of Texas Press\, 2023)\, 
 explores five decades of settlement construction in the occupied West Bank
 . He is currently an assistant professor of architecture at Tel Aviv Unive
 rsity.\n\n"Forms of Power and Mobility in a Bedouin Town": The conversatio
 n about the (formerly nomadic) Bedouin population in Israel has centered a
 round land: the land they lost\, the land they were moved to. This present
 ation shifts the focus to the buildings they build and inhabit. It explore
 s how the Bedouin have been transforming the urban plans devised to settle
  them\, by building statement-houses that draw their design inspiration an
 d labor\, as well as their building material\, from Arab countries. The de
 sign\, construction\, and inhabitation of these houses—which first appea
 red in Bedouin towns and later followed the Bedouin to Jewish-dominated su
 burbs—subtly circumvent the cultural and political borders of Israel. Ar
 guably\, they may presage the creation of a bi-national space. By examinin
 g the Bedouin villas\, this talk describes how domestic architecture—its
  design and use—can function as an active participant in a process of in
 digenous claim for inclusion that goes beyond the stark narratives of resi
 stance and subjugation.\n\nSuggested Reading: Noam Shoked\, “Housing Oth
 ers: Design and Identity in a Bedouin Village”\, International Journal o
 f Islamic Architecture 8\, No. 2 (July 2019): 307–35.\n\n"Crosscurrents:
  Architecture\, Landscape\, and Spatial Practices in Southwest Asia and No
 rth Africa" probes the radical reimagining of the region compelled by the 
 expression Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA). In recent years\, the 
 acronym SWANA has gained currency among architects\, landscape architects\
 , urbanists\, and historians who conceptualize the territories of the Midd
 le East and North Africa through geography and place rather than colonial 
 frameworks. The term “Middle East” was a British invention\, a tool us
 ed to advance colonialism in a region where so many national borders resul
 ted from imperialist interventions. In the Fall 2023 Sciame Lecture Series
 \, groundbreaking designers\, scholars\, practitioners\, and activists cha
 rt multiple—and sometimes competing—currents in the architecture of th
 e region and its diasporas\, while displacing essentializing colonial narr
 atives. To do so\, speakers from across the area shed light on global\, tr
 ansnational\, and diasporic human stories about design\, space\, landscape
 \, and architecture in SWANA\, and advance new ideas about territory\, bui
 ldings\, places\, histories\, and belonging.\n\nAll lectures are free\, op
 en to the public\, and held in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Arch
 itecture Sciame Auditorium.\n\nSee https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/return-campus
  for current requirements for in-person visitors.\n\nThis lecture series i
 s made possible by the Spitzer Architecture Fund and the generous support 
 of Frank Sciame ’74\, CEO of Sciame Construction.
CATEGORIES:Events,Lectures,Sciame Lectures
LOCATION:Sciame Auditorium (Room 107)\, 141 Convent Avenue\, New York\, NY\
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