Belonging through Practice
Alongside the Belonging(s) Beyond Borders exhibition, participants will be invited to attend presentations and a panel discussion about belonging.
Belonging through Practice
Alongside the Belonging(s) Beyond Borders exhibition, participants will be invited to attend presentations and a panel discussion about belonging.
Friday 26th June
18:30 - 20:30
Titled ‘Belonging through Practice’, this programme seeks to foreground architectural and artistic practices that engage with questions of Arab diaspora, displacement, and the reconstruction of identity across geographies.
We have invited three academics and practitioners whose work resonates with these themes across the SWANA region: Dr. Mirna Pedalo, Gabriella Demczuk, and Nihad Sharief. Rather than following a traditional lecture format, we hope to foster dialogue through paired presentations, allowing for meaningful exchanges between complementary practices. Each speaker will be invited to share selected past or ongoing work, followed by a moderated discussion with fellow speakers and the audience.
Location
The P21 Gallery
21-27 Chalton St,
London
NW1 1JD
The P21 Gallery is located right beside the Elegans Nails salon.
Nearest station:
King's Cross St. Pancras Station
Accessible toilet
Level access, with some step(s)
1. Access to the P21 gallery's ground floor is provided via steps and an accessible ramp.
2. The accessible WC is located on the P21 Gallery's basement floor. It can only be accessed via an accessible lift from the ground floor, which is currently operational.
For accessibility and event-related enquiries, please email zainalsharaf.wahbeh@gmail.com.
£5.00 Standard ticket price
Nihad Sharief
Black Muslim Sudanese woman born to first-generation immigrants, with a strong interest in Sudanese architecture and cultural identity. Her work explores how built environments can reflect heritage, memory, and displacement. Inspired by current events in Sudan, she aims to use design to raise awareness and create meaningful spaces that reconnect communities with their cultural roots.
Dr. Mirna Pedalo (ARCHITECTS FOR GAZA)
Bosnian architectural practitioner, researcher, and scholar whose interests lie at the intersection of architecture, urban development, and environmental issues in post-conflict societies. She holds a PhD from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, and teaches at the Royal College of Art, University of Westminster, and Oxford Brookes University. She is a Steering Member and the Education Cluster co-lead at Architects for Gaza (AFG). She will be speaking on behalf of AFG during the event.
Gabriella Demczuk (Al-Wah'at)
Gabriella Demczuk is a Lebanese-American multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, where she teaches Media Studies and Environmental Architecture. She holds a distinction-awarded MA from Goldsmiths’ Centre for Research Architecture and a BA in Fine Arts and Journalism from the George Washington University. Her practice explores the intersection of political ecology, visual culture, and elemental media to investigate spatial power, environmental justice, and food sovereignty. Gabriella is a co-founder of Al-Wah’at, an artist-research collective building communal, ecological, and artistic practices of care and repair in response to growing aridity in the Mediterranean.
Zain Al-Sharaf Wahbeh
London-based Palestinian archival researcher and Architect at Orms. She completed her architectural studies at the University of Edinburgh, the Royal College of Art, and the Architectural Association. She confronts the erasures of her Palestinian hometown in Yafa through archival and documentary practices. , MODERATOR
Organiser
Palestine Collective
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