BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:680@ssa.ccny.cuny.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T190000 DTSTAMP:20240827T131941Z URL:https://ssa.ccny.cuny.edu/events/fall-2024-sciame-lecture-series-nora- akawi/ SUMMARY:Fall 2024 Sciame Lecture Series: Nora Akawi DESCRIPTION:This lecture will be in person and is part of the Fall 2024 Sci ame Lecture Series\, titled "Design Matters: The Housing Question Revisite d."\n\nNora Akawi is a Palestinian architect living in New York. She is as sistant professor of architecture at The Cooper Union and co-founder of in terim studio with Eduardo Rega. She studies bordering and ruination as the architectural project of settler colonialism\, and practices of land- and life-protection in anti-colonial and anti-carceral movements in Palestine \, the occupied Syrian Golan Heights\, and the Canary Islands. Most recent ly\, she co-produced the collaborative multimedia exhibition Antum Al-Ṣa ūt\; Wa Naḥnu Ṣadāh (You Are The Voice\; We Are It’s Echo) at the Graham Foundation for the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial. Nora served on the international jury of the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2023 and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Architecture Education an d Faktur: Documents and Architecture.\n\n"Unbordering: Notes on Transmissi on":\n\nI know that if you could\nyou’d strike a meteor from your eyes\n to burn this world of oppression\nand build a world anew\n\n- Mahmoud Salm an (Gaza\, January 2024)\n\nThis talk will move through representations (a rchives\, documentations\, or conversations) of instances and practices\, both spectacular and unnoticed\, of land- and life-protection that erode t he carceral time and space regime of Israeli settler colonialism in Palest ine and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights (the Jawlan)\, and that offer gl impses into times and worlds where their oppressive architectures and infr astructures are dismantled.\n\nHere\, transmission is understood as a lens through which to read movements out of\, and breaks with colonial time: a s discharge\, as disappearance\, as reverberation\, and as return. Facing colonial attempts of erasing and annihilating entire worlds\, abolitionist movements for freedom bring us closer to decolonized futures both through the material erosion of the structures of genocidal regimes\, and the fla sh imaginaries or recurring calls of the possible-necessary end of an oppr essive world.\n\nPalestine and the Jawlan are home to transgenerational tr aditions of resistance and refusal also in defending land and life through agricultural cooperatives\, educational programs\, situated art practices \, and organized marches and festivals. In addition to collected materials \, the presentation will include compiled excerpts from curatorial\, edito rial and pedagogical projects and studies in architecture. We will pose qu estions on the possibilities\, pretenses and complicity\, of architectural institutions\, circuits\, publications\, exhibitions and pedagogies in th e face of the basic demand for a stance against genocide.\n\n"Design Matte rs: The Housing Question Revisited" examines innovative solutions to the g lobal housing crisis. It situates our contemporary dilemma in the powerful arguments made by Friedrich Engels in the 1870s and 1880s. In his revolut ionary text\, The Housing Question\, Engels argued that the dearth of adeq uate shelter was an inevitable consequence of the Industrial Revolution. A s a result of working-class exploitation endemic to capitalist modernity\, the housing crisis was resolvable only by a revolutionary reconstruction of workers’ power that would result in the collective ownership of land and the means of production. “Design Matters” inverts Engels’s argum ent\, putting design\, architecture\, and planning first. It expands his g eographic\, cultural\, and temporal frame to include cities outside of Wes tern Europe\, and it probes places damaged by the devastating consequences of war\, the climate emergency\, and other catastrophes. A bevy of on-the -ground examples\, conceived at multiple scales and aimed at reconstructio n\, are changing policy\, politics\, practice\, and design. In the face of extraordinary challenges\, architects\, planners\, and providers are coll aborating to produce humane affordable solutions to the housing crisis\, a nd suggesting that architecture is needed to provoke political change.\n\n All lectures are free\, open to the public\, and held in the Bernard and A nne Spitzer School of Architecture Sciame Auditorium. For live captioning\ , ASL interpretation\, or access requests\, please contact ssadean@ccny.cu ny.edu.\n\nThis lecture series is made possible by the Spitzer Architectur e Fund and the generous support of Frank Sciame ’74\, CEO of Sciame Cons truction. 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