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Decolonizing Architecture Art Research (DAAR), the artistic practice of architects Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, is situated between architecture, art, pedagogy and politics. Over the last two decades, they have developed a series of research projects, exhibitions and publications that are both theoretically ambitious and practically engaged in the struggle for justice and equality, in particular for displaced peoples.
DAAR recently created a dossier to nominate Dheisheh Refugee Camp and its forty-four villages of origin to become a UNESCO World Heritage site. The practice seeks to move beyond narratives that focus on the displacement and suffering of refugees, instead seeking to create a political practice that recognizes the culture of exile and challenges the status quo of the nation-state
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This pre-recorded presentation was streamed live on February 5, 2022 as part of The World Around Summit 2022 co-presented by Het Nieuwe Instituut, The Guggenheim Museum and The World Around.
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