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SATURDAY MAY 11 2:30 PM - 6:00 SESSION III RECONSTRUCTION AS VIOLENCE MODERATOR: Huma Gupta , MIT Planning as Re-Orientation: Baalbek and Tripoli, c. 1952 Lucia Allais Princeton University Umudugudu w’Ingunguru: An “Ordinary” Model Village Delia Duong Ba Wendel MIT Concrete Conflict Deen Sharp MIT Domicide in Syria: Reconstruction as Re-Destruction of Home Ammar Azzouz Architect, London Culturescaping the Post-Conflict Environment: The Spatial Politics of “Peace” Andrew Herscher University of MIchigan CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY Deen Sharp MIT Photo by Sergey Ponomarev An election campaign poster for President Bashar al-As- sad displayed on a ruined shopping mall in the Khalidiya district of Homs, shortly after Government forces regained control of the area. Built just before the war, the mall had never opened for business. Illustration: Julie Mehretu, Epigraph, Damascus, 2016 (detail) A SYMPOSIUM SPONSORED BY THE AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE AT MIT This two-day symposium seeks to address the following questions: How does violence and conflict not only destroy but constitute, design, and organize built environments and infrastructures? How do we understand the urbanization of warfare in relation to urban theory and reconstruction practices? Finally, participants will be asked to consider the recent warfare in the Middle East, with a special focus on Aleppo, in relation to the built environment and the extent to which reconstruction processes can be weaponized. Organized by Nasser Rabbat and Deen Sharp. Reconstruction as Violence THE CASE OF ALEPPO FRIDAY MAY 10 & SATURDAY MAY 11, 2019 IN MIT ROOM 6-120 FRIDAY MAY 10 2:30 PM - 5:00 PM OPENING REMARKS Hashim Sarkis MIT INTRODUCTION Nasser Rabbat MIT SESSION I URBANIZATION AND DESTRUCTION MODERATOR: Allison Cuneo, MIT Rethinking Urban Reconstruction through Informal Settlements, a Syrian Historical Perspective Valérie Clerc IRD France (Re)Constructing Memory (as Violence) Aleksandar Staničić TU Delft Territorialities of Sovereignty: Deconstructing the Spatial Correlates of Conflict Diane Davis Harvard University SATURDAY MAY 11 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM SESSION II THE CASE OF ALEPPO MODERATOR: Nasser Rabbat, MIT Survivor Cities: Cultural Heritage in Context and in Contest Heghnar Watenpaugh University of California Davis Aleppo, Patterns of Damage: Beyond Winning the War Laura Kurgan Columbia University The Ambiguities of Syria’s Reconstruction Frederick Deknatel World Politics Review Towards an Ethical Framework for Reconstructing Aleppo Rim Lababidi University College London
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SATURDAY MAY 11 2:30 PM - 6 :00
SESSION IIIRECONSTRUCTION AS VIOLENCE MODERATOR: Huma Gupta , MIT
Planning as Re-Orientation: Baalbek and Tripoli, c . 1952
Lucia Al la is
Princeton University
Umudugudu w’Ingunguru: An “Ordinary” Model Village
Delia Duong Ba Wendel
MIT
Concrete Conflict
Deen Sharp
MIT
Domicide in Syria: Reconstruction as Re-Destruction of Home
Ammar Azzouz
Architect, London
Culturescaping the Post-Conflict Environment: The Spatial Politics of “Peace”
Andrew Herscher
University of MIchigan
CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY
Deen Sharp
MIT
Photo by Sergey Ponomarev
An election campaign poster for President Bashar al-As-sad displayed on a ruined shopping mall in the Khalidiya district of Homs, shortly after Government forces regained control of the area. Built just before the war, the mall had never opened for business.
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This two-day symposium seeks to address the following questions: How does violence and confl ict not only destroy but constitute, design, and organize built environments and infrastructures? How do we understand the urbanization of warfare in relation to urban theory and reconstruction practices? Finally, participants wil l be asked to consider the recent warfare in the Middle East, with a special focus on Aleppo, in relation to the built environment and the extent to which reconstruction processes can be weaponized. Organized by Nasser Rabbat and Deen Sharp.
Reconstruction as ViolenceTHE CASE OF ALEPPOF R I D A Y M A Y 1 0 & S A T U R D A Y M A Y 11 , 2 0 1 9 I N M I T R O O M 6 - 1 2 0
FRIDAY MAY 10 2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
OPENING REMARKS
Hashim Sarkis
MIT
INTRODUCTION
Nasser R abbat
MIT
SESSION IURBANIZATION AND DESTRUCTIONMODERATOR: All ison Cuneo, MIT
Rethinking Urban Reconstruction through Informal Settlements, a Syrian Historical Perspective
Valérie Clerc
IRD France
(Re)Constructing Memory (as Violence)
Aleksandar Stanič ić
TU Delft
Territorialities of Sovereignty: Deconstructing the Spatial Correlates of Conflict
Diane Davis
Harvard University
SATURDAY MAY 11 9:30 AM - 12 :30 PM
SESSION IITHE CASE OF ALEPPOMODERATOR: Nasser R abbat, MIT
Survivor Cities: Cultural Heritage in Context and in Contest
Heghnar Watenpaugh
University of Cali fornia Davis
Aleppo, Patterns of Damage: Beyond Winning the War
Laura Kurgan
Columbia University
The Ambiguities of Syria’s Reconstruction
Frederick Deknatel
World Polit ics Review
Towards an Ethical Framework for Reconstructing Aleppo
Rim Lababidi
University College London
