SYMPOSIUM
Gaza: Repair & Return
Wednesday, 28th February 2024 | 19:00 - 21:00
Messages from Gaza Now
At this event Az Theatre will present more readings of Hossam Madhoun’s MESSAGES FROM GAZA NOW, accounts from recent days in the Gaza Strip. Alongside this we are holding an open conversation with the Architects for Gaza/Palestine Regeneration Team group (participation and speaker to be confirmed). Az Theatre is making an appeal to ‘skill and knowledge’ communities to join an ongoing process of support and communication with people in Gaza as they face rebuilding their lives, their landscape and their environment in the coming months and years.
WE APPEAL! This involves architects, hydrologists, agronomists, educators, psychotherapists, artists, performers, economists, social scientists, community organisers, ecologists, health workers, nutritionists, civic administrators, people with life skills, mothers, fathers, grandparents and children. We want to open the public imagination to the necessary dimensions of the engagement and encourage people to turn their skills and knowledge towards working with the people of Gaza.
Az Theatre has been in partnership with Theatre for Everybody in Gaza since 2009. Hossam Madhoun whose accounts we will spend some time listening to is a co-director of the latter and a Child Protection Programme Manager. Our programme of work and exchange since 2009 has benefitted people in Palestine, the UK and elsewhere.
SPEAKERS:
Dr Nishat Awan is a Lecturer in Architecture at University of Sheffield. Her research interests include the production and representation of spaces of migration, including borders, and she explores how these can be addressed through spatial practice. Her most recent book Diasporic Agencies will be published by Ashgate in 2016. She is also co-author of Spatial Agency (Routledge, 2011) and co-editor of Trans-Local-Act (aaa-peprav, 2011).
Whilst she is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, she will be working on a project entitled 'Migrant Narratives of Citizenship’.
Dr Fadi Shayya is a transdisciplinary scholar and consultant working at the intersection of spatial and architectural theory, science and technology studies, design thinking, and the philosophy of technical thought. He uses the tools of architecture, urbanism, ethnography, and networks to theorise and speculate about sociotechnical and eco-infrastructural cosmologies.
He is based at the University of Salford as a Lecturer in Architecture & Urbanism. He serves as a UKRI Talent Peer Review College member and the University of Salford’s Impact Co-Lead for REF 2028 UOA 13 (Architecture, Built Environment and Planning). He also serves as a member of the University’s Race Equity Group, and earlier on the peer review committee for the Science Trak of the UIA World Congress of Architects. In 2023, he was selected as a respondent among a planetary cohort of respondents for the AFFIRMATIONS discussion series curated and organized by Columbia University’s GSAPP.
He is a licensed architect with the Order of Engineers and Architects-Beirut. For ten years, he practised and consulted on architecture, urban design, master planning, and international development in Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, KSA, Lebanon, Oman, and UAE with Dar Al-Handasah (as LEED Green Associate), UNESCWA (as Associate Human Settlements Officer), and others.
The current level of pain suffered by Palestinians in this period must have a meaning for the regeneration of life, freedom and justice.
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Generously supported by: Az Theatre and HUB Collective
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