An interdisciplinary research group at @arch_cambridge. We investigate urban conflicts, inc. those caused by ethnicity, nationalism, religion, class, race & age
Cambridge, England
Joined April 2018
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'extraordinarily in-depth, historically and theoretically rich study' on 'the politics of colonisation and decolonisation' and 'the current political landscape in Israel-Palestine.'
🙏 for a great review @TheSAHGB journal
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The Centre for Urban Conflicts Research retweeted
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The Centre for Urban Conflicts Research retweeted
The @ArchReview's beautifully curated issue on The Garden is now out. I wrote a short piece on the past & present of terrace gardening in Palestine. Thanks to AR's brilliant editorial team @manonmollard @eabeaumont @lilliambleak @epeirson. More details on obtaining a copy below.
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Congratulations to UCR member @YasminaChami, who won this year’s Hawksmoor Essay Medal, awarded by the @SAHGB, for her essay: 'Industrialism, Philanthropy, Architecture: The “Total" Project of American Missionaries in C19 Beirut'! @arch_cambridge
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Congratulations to @YasminaChami @arch_cambridge - winner of the 2020 Hawksmoor Essay Prize for her essay 'Industrialism, Philanthropy, Architecture: The ‘Total’ Project of American Missionaries in Nineteenth-Century Beirut'.
The Centre for Urban Conflicts Research retweeted
Delighted to be part of this issue on #land. My piece, ‘Invisible Terrains’, walks through the ruins of present-day Jaffa in search for an erased Palestinian port city. Thanks @ArchReview for the feature.
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The Centre for Urban Conflicts Research retweeted
My latest short piece for @PalStudies is on the rise of Jaffa's citriculture in the 19th century and its material effects on the city and its suburbs until the mid 20th century. Link below :) palestine-studies.org/en/nod…
UCR’s @YasminaChami will present at the @theSAHGB and @ihr_history Architectural History Seminar on Sept 21, 17-18.30 BST to discuss the architecture of the Syrian Protestant College, est. by American missionaries in 1866 in Beirut. Read more & register: sahgb.org.uk/whatson/yasmina…
UCR member @YasminaChami has been awarded a six-month Scouloudi- IHR Doctoral Fellowship by the Institute of Historical Research for her dissertation entitled "Constructing Beirut: Missionary Education and the Project of the City in Nineteenth-Century Lebanon"
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The Centre for Urban Conflicts Research retweeted
Congrats! Happy and proud to be one of the contributors to this important collection, together with @PollyWilkins, @urbanmobilities, @KikanoFaten, @daniel_howden, @rain_later, @zacharywhyte, @CettaMainwaring, @TobyParsloe and many other great scholars
Out now, a new book edited by @tomscottsmith and Mark Breeze, ‘Structures of Protection? Rethinking Refugee Shelter’ questions what shelter is and how we can define it, from @berghahnbooks bit.ly/3gcHy3B
The Centre for Urban Conflicts Research retweeted
Delighted to have contributed towards this with a chapter on the emergency and container shelters for refugees in the former #Tempelhof airport. Particularly poignant at a time when the containers may be re-opened after the shelter closed last year. @berghahnbooks
Out now, a new book edited by @tomscottsmith and Mark Breeze, ‘Structures of Protection? Rethinking Refugee Shelter’ questions what shelter is and how we can define it, from @berghahnbooks bit.ly/3gcHy3B
Nadi Abusaada's recent article titled "Combined Action: Aerial Imagery and the Urban Landscape in Interwar Palestine, 1918-40" has been published in the special issue of Jerusalem Quarterly. The paper is available at academia.edu/42894378/Combin…
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CONGRATULATIONS to Anwar Jaber for passing her PhD viva today 🥳
After a long journey: I am pleased to annouce that I successfully passed my PhD viva today, the oral examination for the PhD in #architecture at the University of Cambridge! Thanks to all those who helped me - I am grateful to all :) @arch_cambridge @UrbanConflicts @ChurchillCol
Video now available of the results of the @TUBerlin / @Cambridge_Uni summer school on refugee housing. Congratulations @TobyParsloe! Video available at: vimeo.com/406534207
I'm exceptionally proud to share the video of our final outcomes for our collaborative architectural summer school between @Cambridge_Uni and @TUBerlin that looks at urban refugee shelter, hosted by @SFB1265 and funded by @ahrcpress: vimeo.com/406534207
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'Designs for a Refugee Shelter Rooftop' event on 25/02 at Newnham College at 17.30. The event presents design interventions for a refugee shelter in Berlin that grappled with the architectural questions raised by the so-called 'Refugee Crisis' of 2015. [1/2]
The designs were an outcome of a collaborative summer school for architecture students at the University of Cambridge and the Technical University Berlin.
Free tickets are available at: eventbrite.co.uk/e/designs-f… [2/2]
The Centre for Urban Conflicts Research retweeted
Next Tuesday in Cambridge we will be presenting the outcomes of our summer school project 'Designs for a Refugee Shelter Rooftop' hosted by the @CentreGHuM. It'll be a great event where we discuss the architectural questions posed by the so-called 'Refugee Crisis.'
Alex Young Il Seo will exhibit his work on the inter-Korean Border, ’Travels in Woundedland’, developed in collaboration with Manfredo Manfredini at the Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture 2019: Urban Interactions
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Jessie Fyfe and Max Sternberg have published an article entitled 'Unsettled landscapes: traumatic memory in a Croatian hinterland' in the most recent edition of Space and Polity. Access via: tandfonline.com/eprint/WPBF8…
