Monika Borgmann, Abir Saksouk-Sasso and Walid Sadek in conversation with Fadi Shayya
The panel investigates the possibility of critical and discursive notions of spatial production in post-war Beirut against the city’s disrupted collective memory. It discusses why and how the reproduction of urban design and architecture conforms to dominant socio-political dogmas of division, whilst art searches (and sometimes finds) freedom in expressing critical stances for and about memory, using different media.
The discussion will reflect on a text about spatial planning, authority and memory in Beirut co-authored with Fouad Asfour and Lana Salman for This Is Not a Gateway‘s Critical Cities volume 3
With Monika Borgmann, filmmaker and co-director of UMAM, Abir Saksouk-Sasso, architect and activist, and Walid Sadek, artist and assistant professor at AUB, chaired by Fadi Shayya, urbanist and architect.
Event in English. You can read the full program, or check the wbesites of Hay Festival and Beirut Art Center.
