Fri
17
Jan
Seminars and Conferences
Decolonizing Architecture
Two events on January 17, 2025 on Decolonizing Architecture with DAAR - Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti (Golden Lion for Best Participation at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2023) curated by Tomà Berlanda and Camillo Boano of the DIST and supported by Collegio di Architecture & Design and open to everyone, students, PhDs, colleagues, staff within and beyond the Castello del Valentino.
FIRST EVENT | Decolonizing Architecture: an informal conversation with DAAR on Palestine, student encampments, and critical knowledge
10.00-13.00, 17 January 2025
Sala Vigliano, Castello del Valentino, Turin, IT
The informal event is an opportunity open to everyone, students, PhDs, colleagues, staff within and beyond the Castello, to informally, discuss, construct solidarity, and share experiences on the urgent necessity of decolonization in response to ongoing conflicts.
SECOND EVENT | Decolonizing Architecture Art Research: A lecture by DAAR - Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti
17.00-19.00, 17 January 2025
Salone d’Onore, Castello del Valentino, Turin, IT
The open lecture is an opportunity to listen to reflections on past and current work by DAAR, and its practical and political preoccupations which make it of one of the most interesting and innovative architecture, pedagogy and artistic practice of the present.
DAAR: The artistic and architectural research practice of DAAR – Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti – is situated between architecture, art, pedagogy, and politics. Over the last two decades, they have developed a series of research-projects that are both theoretically ambitious and practically engaged in the struggle for justice and equality. In DAAR’s work, art exhibitions are both sites of display and sites of action that spill over into other contexts: built architectural structures, the shaping of critical learning
environments, interventions that challenge dominant collective narratives, the production of new political imaginations, the formation of civic spaces and the re-definition of concepts. DAAR has been awarded The Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism at Bard College and The Golden Lion for Best Participation at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, for their long-standing commitment to deep political engagement with architectural and learning practices of decolonization in Palestine and Europe.
No booking needed.
FIRST EVENT | Decolonizing Architecture: an informal conversation with DAAR on Palestine, student encampments, and critical knowledge
10.00-13.00, 17 January 2025
Sala Vigliano, Castello del Valentino, Turin, IT
The informal event is an opportunity open to everyone, students, PhDs, colleagues, staff within and beyond the Castello, to informally, discuss, construct solidarity, and share experiences on the urgent necessity of decolonization in response to ongoing conflicts.
SECOND EVENT | Decolonizing Architecture Art Research: A lecture by DAAR - Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti
17.00-19.00, 17 January 2025
Salone d’Onore, Castello del Valentino, Turin, IT
The open lecture is an opportunity to listen to reflections on past and current work by DAAR, and its practical and political preoccupations which make it of one of the most interesting and innovative architecture, pedagogy and artistic practice of the present.
DAAR: The artistic and architectural research practice of DAAR – Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti – is situated between architecture, art, pedagogy, and politics. Over the last two decades, they have developed a series of research-projects that are both theoretically ambitious and practically engaged in the struggle for justice and equality. In DAAR’s work, art exhibitions are both sites of display and sites of action that spill over into other contexts: built architectural structures, the shaping of critical learning
environments, interventions that challenge dominant collective narratives, the production of new political imaginations, the formation of civic spaces and the re-definition of concepts. DAAR has been awarded The Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism at Bard College and The Golden Lion for Best Participation at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, for their long-standing commitment to deep political engagement with architectural and learning practices of decolonization in Palestine and Europe.
No booking needed.