The video lectures were recorded during Kuma International Architecture Month 2021 dedicated to “Living Borders. Bosnia and Herzegovina in dialogue with Palestine”.
The program brought together eight architects and researchers whose practices around Bosnia and Herzegovina and Palestine examine notions of exile, migration, and the questions of crossing and overcoming borders to further the interdisciplinary debate that critically interrogates the border-migration nexus in architectural terms.
Guest speakers: Haris Piplas, Dr. (ETH Zurich), Nadia Habash, M.Arch. (Birzeit University), Senada Demirovic Habibija, Dr. (IDEAA Urban House Mostar), Anwar Jaber, Dr. (University of Cambridge/ University of Waterloo), Sabina Tanovic, Dr. (TU of Delft), Abed Alrahman Kittaneh, Dr. and Alessandra Gola, Dr. Candidate (Yallah Project), Ajna Babahmetovic, M.Arch. (TU Gratz) and Suzanne Harris-Brandts, Dr. (University of Carleton).
Week 1 “Transforming borders” kicked off with Dr Haris Piplas (ETH Zurich ) and its lecture titled “Re-constructing Sarajevo – Radical Spatial Transformation in a (Geo)Politically Contested Urban Laboratory.
Week 2 “(In)visible Borders” hosted Dr. Senada Demirovic Habibija, PhD architect from Mostar. Senada studied architecture in Morocco, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Denmark.
Week 2 “(In)visible Borders” hosted Dr. Anwar Jaber (University of Cambridge/ University of Waterloo) and her lecture entitled “Spatial Investigation: The political-national topography in Ramallah, Palestine”.
Week 3 “Acting with(in) borders” hosted Dr. Sabina Tanović (TU of Delft) and her lecture titled “Architecture and the Borderline: Preserving War Heritage in the Post-siege Sarajevo”.
Week 3 “Acting with(in) borders” hosted Dr Abed Alrahman Kittaneh and Dr Candidate Alessandra Gola from The Yalla Project in Nablus, Palestine. In their lecture they talked about The Yalla Project (TYP) as an applied research hub on socio-spatial issues.
The 4th and last week “Reclaiming Borders” hosted Ajna Babahmetović (TU Gratz) and her lecture entitled “Houses at Home: Reading Diasporic Architecture in Bosnia & Herzegovina”.
Our last speaker was Dr Suzanne Harris-Brandts (University of Carleton) with a lecture entitled “The politics of landscape in the occupied West Bank”.
