Inhabiting Displacement: Architecture and Authorship

by Shahd Seethaler-Wari, Somayeh Chitchian, Maja Momic

Overview

This anthology aims to destabilize the limits of the discipline of architecture by focusing on the core concepts of inhabitation and displacement. This, by extension, centralizes the figure of the inhabitant and interrogates the limits of conventional architectural thinking.

The editors shed light on the topic of displacement from interdisciplinary and international perspectives. By rendering visible the practices of living and spatial appropriation, this volume also encourages critical engagement with questions of architectural production and authorship.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783035623703
Publisher:	Birkhäuser
Publication date:	01/31/2022
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.40(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Shahd Seethaler-Wari, postdoctoral fellow Max-Planck Inst.

Somayeh Chitchian, Harvard University

Maja Momic, HafenCity Univ. Hamburg

Table of Contents

Introduction 9

Part I Inhabiting the "Camp"

In, Out, and Beyond the Camp Samah Al Jundi-Pfaff 24

Reversals: The University and the Camp Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi 36

Architecture on the Move: (Re)Creating a Place in a Displaced World Irit Katz 47

Madafah: Who is Hosting Whom? 60

The Everyday of Za'atri Refugee Camp and the Architectural Encounter Aya Musmar

Between Securitization, Appropriation, and the Right to Dwell: A Multiscalar Analysis of Azraq Camp Ayham Dalal Petra Heber Leticia Palomino 75

Part II Inhabiting the "City"

Interview with Gregor Brune, a Practicing Architect Shahd Seethater-Wari 92

Inhabiting Refugee Accommodations: A Comparison of Two Temporarily Transformed Buildings Shahd Seethaler-Wari 104

Between Inhabitation and Dwelling: (Im)mobilities in Everyday Life Maja Momic 131

Architecture and Beyond: In/formal Spaces of Urban Refuge - Berlin Nassim Mehran 145

Displacement, Arrival, and Housing: The Case of Leipzig (Germany) and Mocoa (Colombia) Lína Sánchez Steiner 160

Architectures of Displacement: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Humanitarian Shelter Romola Sanyal 176

Epilogue

Inhabitation: A Story of Return Somayeh Chitchian 192

List of Contributors 196