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Studio X Amman is a regional platform for research and programming in architecture, run by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation - Columbia University's GSAPP and the Columbia Global Centers | Amman.


Call for Participants


Janet Abu-Lughod Library Seminar IV


Superheat 

Bearable Substructures


 

with Ala Younis
 

In this seminar, we reflect on the temporality, vulnerability, and exploitation of lives on a construction site. Questioning the frameworks and sources of “third world architecture” history, we experiment with and produce the contents of Superheat, the first issue of an annual publication. While the intensifying heat warms up construction sites and their materials, the stories of the lives on these sites survive as they happen within a bearable substructure. Negotiations of weight, power, tactility and others leave their mark (on flesh, on concrete, in files). We will read from personal accounts, re-piece fragments of archives, foreground her side of the story, hear on stocking and reporting, and dig into murky political pasts.
 

May 27 – June 29, 2020
Sundays and Tuesdays, 6-8pm Amman time
Public talks on Saturdays are open to the public


Participation is online, free, and open to participants from around the world. Places are limited, and the call for participants is open until Monday May 11, 2020.

To apply, please send your cv and a short text of relevance (up to 500 words) to na2366@columbia.edu with “JALS Superheat Application” in the subject line by May 11. The text can be a cover letter, an excerpt of an essay or a short story that you wrote. Sending work samples or a portfolio is optional. Selected participants will be notified by May 15.

About Ala Younis

Ala Younis is an artist, with research, curatorial, film and publishing projects. Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and publications worldwide. Her project “Plan for Greater Baghdad” (2015) premiered at 56th Venice Biennale’s “All the World’s Futures”, and the female edition of it was shown at the Gwangju Biennial (2018), and in solo shows in London, Dubai, and New York. Ala Younis curated the first Kuwaiti Pavilion at the Venice Biennale; and the Museum of Manufactured Response to Absence collection. She holds a B.Sc. in Architecture from University of Jordan, and a Masters of Research from Goldsmiths, University of London. She is on the Advisory Board of Berlinale’s Forum Expanded, and co-founder of Kayfa ta, a non-profit publishing initiative that have published Arabic and English editions of five how-to titles.
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