Recent Work
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Living Continuity research exhibition at the Old Jubail Fruit and Vegetable Market, February-May 2023.
Curatorial Statement:
Living Continuity is a collective inquiry into the challenges and potential of working towards spatially just neighbourhoods. In current urban policy debates, the neighborhood has emerged as an important scalar construct to understand the systems and processes that shape communities and ecosystems. This calls for re-examining the denotations and connotative dimensions of the terms 'neighbourhood', and 'community' beyond the romanticised and the normative. In the global context of pervasive neoliberal urbanism, cities that are planned and grow on principles of zoning warrant accelerated segregation, expulsion and homogenization. Urban expansion and renewal yields disproportionate access to and distribution of environmental rights, urban commons, social health and mobility. The tension between renewal vs expansion creates conditions of hyper-precarity and raises questions on how to secure lived continuity. How can interlocutors, respondents and residents facilitate and advocate for inclusive, decolonial and sensitized discourses around urban policy and education given limitations of civic participation? This line of inquiry will continue to be explored through developing toolkits and urban activations to enable knowledge exchange. We will reflect on how to broaden our understanding of people-centred approaches through insights on interdependence, plurality and spatial practices.
pictured: 1. collaboration with Marcos Parga and Michal Jurgielewicz, 2. Yasser Elsheshtawy, 3. Paulina Yeal Cho, 4. Kit-of-Parts, 5. Readings, 7. 8. collaboration with Beatriz ItzelCruz-Megchun and Michal Jurgielewicz, 9. Ailo Ribas, 10. Glossary, 11., 12. Library.
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Photos courtesy Danko Stjepanovic.