DAAS in SHARJAH
The programme is radically structured around participants’ practices and interests offering a critical space for reflection on questions emerging from practices rooted in context. It serves as a space for convivial collective learning. The programme aims to create fertile ground for cultivating a new field of artistic research in Sharjah by forming a group of practitioner fellows who seek to belong to a community of thinkers open to collective reflection and collaborative thinking.
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CAMPUS IN CAMPS
From 2012 to 2016, we co-founded “Campus in Camps,” an experimental educational program in partnership with Al Quds Bard University and hosted by the Popular Committee of Southern West Bank refugee camps in cooperation with UNRWA (The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East).
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Watch the video: Campus in Camps Video
THE TREE SCHOOL
Following Campus in Camps, we felt the need to expand our critical conversations and build alliances with groups sharing similar urgencies. In 2014, during the São Paulo Biennial, we initiated the first Tree School in collaboration with Contrafile, engaging participants from quilombos and landmasses movements. Over the years, the Tree School has been activated with indigenous communities at Melbourne University, diasporic communities in Dubai, and artists and educators in Hong Kong, Cuernavaca, and Zagreb.
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Watch the video: The Tree School Video
DAAS IN STOCKHOLM
In 2017, Alessandro became Professor of Architecture and Social Justice at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, where he established the Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Studies program (DAAS). This program comprises postmaster courses, public seminars, field studies, publications, and discursive exhibitions, forming a comprehensive platform for education and research.
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Watch the video: DAAS Video
DIFFICULT HERITAGE SUMMER SCHOOL
In 2021, as part of a larger research project on the afterlives of colonial fascist architecture, Alessandro, together with Emilio Distretti, established the Difficult Heritage Summer School in Borgo Rizza, Sicily. The summer school is a collaborative effort involving the Municipality of Carlentini, the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, the University of Basel, the School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London, IASPIS (the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual and Applied Arts), DAAR (Decolonizing Architecture Art Research), and the Museo delle Civiltà in Rome.
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Watch the video: Difficult Heritage Video