Khaled Malas Public Lecture: Condemned to Hope: Monuments of the Everyday

University of Basel, Kollegienhaus, Regenzzimmer 111, 11.11.2019, 6pm

Khaled Malas will explore design practices as a radical form of being and making in his work with Sigil. Sigil produces representational and site-specific interventions titled ‘monuments of the everyday’. These projects, produced in collaboration with multiple interlocutors, explore the marvelous and terrifying metamorphoses of the Arab landscape that is the stake and site of historical and contemporary struggles.

Sigil’s interventions are political projects that attempt to forge new ways of building in accordance with contemporary circumstances. They aspire towards the revolutionary moment in which we have collectively found ourselves.

 

Part of series:
Urbanism in Conflict: Cities, Conflict and Contestation

Conflict is associated both with democratic politics and with hegemonic forms of violence. This seminar and lecture series will explore how conflict shapes cities and citizenship, and how cities and citizenship are, in turn, shaped by conflict. We propose that conflict be considered as a mode of inhabiting cities—indeed, as a mode of citizenship—but also as potentially a mode of eroding citizenship and urban fabric through both violent and non-violent means. Guest lecturers from a range of disciplines in the social sciences will address how issues ranging from participatory democracy and environmental justice to ethnic violence and migration reshape cities. The roster of guest lecturers includes renowned representatives from the following fields: Critical geography, urban politics, architectural research, heritage studies and Black studies.

 

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