Refugee Heritage installations in Dubai, Chicago, Seoul and Timișoara

DAAR, Refugee Heritage (2015-2021)
Photographic dossier Luca Capuano
Photo installation  Kendall McCaugherty

Chicago Architecture Biennial (September 19, 2019 – January 5, 2020)


Chapters and iterations of the ongoing Refugee Heritage project (2015-2021), conceived, publicly discussed and produced in Dheisheh refugee camp in Palestine, have been displayed at the Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai, Chicago Architecture Biennial, The Art Encounters Biennial in TimișoaraSeoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. Since 2015, DAAR, along with politicians, conservation experts, activists, governmental and nongovernmental representatives, and residents, gathered to discuss the implications of nominating Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem—a place established with the intention of being temporary—as a World Heritage Site. Refugee Heritage presents the heritage nomination application, images of Dheisheh as it is today, and documentation on the current state of the home villages of Dheisheh refugees. By reusing, misusing, and redirecting UNESCO World Heritage guidelines and criteria, Refugee Heritage challenges definitions of heritage and their foundations in colonialism, asking instead how architectural instruments can be undermined, or mobilized as agents of political transformation.


DAAR, Refugee Heritage (2015-2021)
Photographic dossier Luca Capuano
Courtesy of Jameel Arts Centre. Photo by Dani Baptista

 Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai  (October 09, 2019 – February 20, 2020)



DAAR, Refugee Heritage (2015-2021)
Photographic dossier Luca Capuano
Photo installation Adrian Catu

The Art Encounters Biennial in Timișoara (September 20–October 27, 2019)


DAAR, Refugee Heritage (2015-2021)
Photographic dossier Luca Capuano

Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism  (September 7– November 10, 2019)

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