Terra Infecta
A Moving Border
Rights of Future Generations
Arrivederci ad Arborea
Vulnerable Beings
Medical Borders
Al Masha + Difficult Heritage
The Interior Inside Out
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Sharjah Architecture Triennial
2019–2022
The first Sharjah Architecture Triennial, curated by Adrian Lahoud, brought together architects, artists, and activists. The exhibition reflected on the importance of intergenerational perspectives in addressing environmental crises, and reaffirmed architecture’s fundamental role in imagining novel forms of coexistence.
As the Triennial’s head of publications, Andrea Bagnato edited two books, plus an essay series in collaboration with global media outlets.
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Rights of Future Generations: Conditions
Hatje Cantz, 2019, 978-3-7757-4703-5
Arab Institute for Research and Publishing, 978-614-486-032-8
18 x 24 cm, 248 pp.
The first volume is organised around the idea of “conditions”: of the environment, but also the conditions of struggle, resistance, and experimentation. The book contains twenty-seven short essays written by the participants to the Triennial, each reporting from a different site around the world – from the forest churches of Ethiopia to public housing in Iran.
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Hatje Cantz, 2022
978-3-7757-4872-8 (English and Arabic edition)
24 x 32 cm, 320 pp.
The second volume reflects back on intergenerational resistance to dispossession and extraction, through the contribution of authors who inspired the Triennial’s approach. Examples include Hannah Arendt’s thinking on Algerian Jews, the manipulation of archaeological evidence in Palestine, Nubian music and displacement in the shadow of the Aswan Dam, and more.
Propositions includes essays by Nadia Abu El Haj, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Houria Bouteldja, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Alia Mossallam, Jasbir K. Puar, Françoise Vergès. It also features a photographic archive of the 2019 exhibition.
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