AKPIA@MIT

Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Videos from “Reconstruction as Violence: The Case of Aleppo”

Back to main page; Reconstruction as Violence
EACH LINK WILL TAKE YOU TO THE CORRESPONDENT VIDEO IN THE YOUTUBE CHANNEL OF THE MIT DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE

Opening Remarks
Hashim Sarkis, MIT

Introduction
Nasser Rabbat, MIT

SESSION I
URBANIZATION AND DESTRUCTION

Rethinking Urban Reconstruction through Informal Settlements, a Syrian Historical Perspective
Valérie Clerc, French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD)

(Re)Constructing Memory (as Violence)
Aleksandar Staničić, TU Delft

SATURDAY MAY 11

SESSION II, THE CASE OF ALEPPO

Survivor Cities: Cultural Heritage in Context and in Contest
Heghnar Watenpaugh, University of California Davis

The Ambiguities of Syria’s Reconstruction
Frederick Deknatel, World Politics Review

Towards an Ethical Framework for Reconstructing Aleppo
Rim Lababidi, University College London