Against Architecture: Architecture as a Tool of Power, Erasure, and Resistance
Against Architecture: Architecture as a Tool of Power, Erasure, and Resistance
A critical, production-oriented workshop for architecture and design students exploring colonialism, capitalism, war, and the production of space.
With Abdullah Al-Bayari, a researcher, writer, and lecturer working on critical geography, spatial politics, settler colonialism, and the relationship between the built environment and war. Trained originally in medicine, his research focuses on the relationship between architecture and power, the production of space, urbicide, and the colonial politics of urban development, with a particular focus on Palestine and the Arab region as sites for understanding the relationship between space, violence, and resistance.
His work draws on interdisciplinary approaches that bring together human geography, architectural theory, urban studies, and anti-colonial thought to examine how architecture and cities produce relations of power and domination, and how, conversely, they can become tools for memory, liberation, and the reimagining of place.
He has worked as a researcher and editor with a number of Arab and international research institutions and teaches postgraduate courses in political geography and anti-colonial geography. He has also published research and studies on settler colonialism, urbicide, the production of space, and urbanism in Palestine, and has participated in international conferences and workshops addressing the intersections of architecture, politics, and the city.
