DECOLONIZING ARCHITECTURE_
Alessandro Petti
April 5_12 pm_Gund Hall 510
ALESSANDRO PETTI is an Architect, Urbanist and Researcher based in Bethlehem. He teaches at Honors College Al-Quds/Bard University in Abu Dis-Jerusalem, Director of the research office DAAR - Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency.. Petti has written on the emerging spatial order dictated by the paradigm of security and control in Arcipelaghi e enclave (Archipelagos and enclaves, Bruno Mondadori, Milan 2007). He co-curated different research projects on the contemporary urban condition such as Borderdevices (2002-2007) with multiplicity and Stateless Nation with Sandi Hilal (2002-2007) www.statelessnation.org. He is involve with Sandi Hilal and Eyal Weizman in a research project entitled Decolonizing Architecture, a project that explores the problems and potentiality associated with re-use, re-inhabitation and subversion of colonial structures. They won in 2010
the Price Claus Prize for Architecture and shortlisted for the Chrnikov Prize.
ARCHITECTURE IN EXTRA-TERRITORIALITIES_
Pelin Tan
April 6_12 pm_Portico 121
PELIN TAN is trained in sociology and art history. She completed her master and PhD on the issues of globalization, socially engaged art practices and ethics of locality in ITU. Co-editor of the book “Public Space Discussion in Contemporary Art” (Bilgi Univ.Press, 2007), editor of Muhtelif contemporary art magazine, guest-editor of special Istanbul neoliberal urban transformation issue Arch+ architecture magazine, guest editor of specific dossier of contemporary art in the Journal of Re-Thinking Marxism (2012). Working on her forthcoming book “Unconditional Hospitality and Architecture” that deals with Derrida's notion of unconditional hospitality, encounter ethics of Levinas and architectural design. Tan is a postdoc research fellow in Spring 2011 at the ACT (Art, Culture, and Technology) program of the Department of Architecture – School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Graduate School of Design
Harvard University
Gund Hall
48 Quincy St,
Cambridge MAss 02138
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