📢 Reminder that the final dialogue in the Colonial Debris, Decolonial Horizons series, “After Colonial Debris,” is on tonight 6pm inAdam House Basement Theatre, 3 Chambers Street, Edinburgh.This is an online and in person event. Evenbrite link here. 👇 Details below. tinyurl.com/mvnm8ufw
How should architects & urbanists respond to war’s aftermath? Join After Colonial Debris, final dialogue in the Colonial Debris, Decolonial Horizons series w/ Architects for Gaza & Dr Samer Abdelnour. Wed 18 Mar, 6pm, Edinburgh + online.
Over 400 @unitetheunion.bsky.social members at the University of Strathclyde (including cleaners and security guards) are starting 7 days of strike action today over job cuts.
The university says it has to save money. Last year the boss of the university was paid £428,000
How should architects & urbanists respond to war’s aftermath? Join After Colonial Debris, final dialogue in the Colonial Debris, Decolonial Horizons series w/ Architects for Gaza & Dr Samer Abdelnour. Wed 18 Mar, 6pm, Edinburgh + online.
Our film Hill Station will premiere at Open City Docs alongside Miranda Pennell’s new film.This standalone version includes additional footage from the model production/ installation for the RIBA–Tate exhibition. I’ll be in Japan, but if you’re in London please go. opencitylondon.com/events/hill-...
Reminder: Salone Drift screens Wed 11 March, 6pm at Adam House Basement Theatre, Edinburgh (Colonial Debris, Decolonial Horizons series). The film explores colonial health segregation in Freetown and the rise of tropical medicine. Discussion with Prof. Nacim Pak-Shiraz. In person only.
📽️ Screening: Salone Drift Wed 11th March, 6pm
@edincollegeofart.bsky.social Tracing Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine expedition and "elevated enclaves" of malaria control. Interest to: Architecture, Film Studies, Archivists, Medical Anthro. Register here: tinyurl.com/ym2t6b4c In-person only
Final reminder: Imagined Futures, Colonial Reckonings
Colonial Debris, Decolonial Horizons #4
Wed 25 Feb, 6pm Adam House Theatre, Edinburgh
Details + tickets via Eventbrite.
Please share. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/colonial-d...
Colonial Debris #4/ 25 Feb, 6pm. Lilet Breddels — Gaza Travel Agency and Saleh — Balfour Reparations. Speculative design & performance confronting Britain’s colonial legacy in Palestine.
Eventbrite soon. Please come, Share. Will be 🔥
Know Iran. See it. Iranians are the best people (next to the Irish). I have so much love for the people and place. I stand against tyranny
‘Emily representing…’
Great conversations tonight At colonial debris w/ victoria Okoye and email respecting ‘Black Geographies’ Critical. Warm. reflective. generous. Open (non-binary)
💥 Tonight, 6pm — ECA / Black Geographic Interventions Against Empire 💥
Dr Victoria Okoye, Emily Burgess & Hugo Edgoose
Third dialogue in Colonial Debris, Decolonial Horizons.
📍 Room E22, ECA Main Campus
Further details in poster and link lnkd.in/ebVrVUwK
Third dialogue in the Colonial Debris, Decolonial Horizons series: Black Geographic Interventions Against Empire
Wed 4 Feb, 6pm | Room E22, ECA Main Campus. Details in flyer + Eventbrite link below. Please share.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/colonial-d...
Semester 2 ESALA’s Semester 2 **Colonial Debris / Decolonial Horizons** continues.
* Black Geographic Interventions Against Empire (4 Feb) * Imagined Futures, Colonial Reckonings (25 Feb) * Hill Station film + Q&A (11 Mar)
* After Colonial Debris (18 Mar)///
Join us! Event links coming soon.
Grateful for Ella Adu’s thoughtful article Hill Station: the legacy of architecture and community-led exhibitions and the questions it opens around architectural representation. www.riba.org/news/hill-st...
Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
Final post of the year, with a few images from Semester 1 of the MArch Shared Island unit Edinburgh College of Art Immensely proud of my students for taking on—and thoughtfully engaging with—the complex landscapes of Derry’s urban extensions. Looking forward to Semester 2.
First live show @ehfm radio today! 🔊Tune in and listen from 3pm at www.ehfm.live will be mostly 90’s techno and electronic. All in the spirit of peace ✌️ photo by Giles Caron, Derry 1969
Today at TU Delft I’m giving a lecture: “From Extraction to Translation: The Afterlife of a West African Utopia.” A trilogy of work on Yekepa, N. Liberia, tracing Mano knowledge, mining and post-mining futures. Thanks to the Theories of Architecture Fellowship. Image archive: Svenska Filminstitutet
Delighted to join @tudelft as a Theories of Architecture Fellow and to take part in the PhD seminar series. Will share work from Geography Lessons, Uppland, and Translating Yekepa on extraction, landscape, and post-conflict architectures.
#Architecture #PostConflict #ExtractiveUrbanism #TUDelft
Presented Salone Drift today — a story of Freetown growing along the coast while slowly eating its own shoreline. At John Obey, sand is livelihood and loss, memory and future. A city remaking itself, grain by grain. #salonedrift image of 1899 Ross malaria map transposed onto John obey beach
Next week at ESALA Colonial Debris Dialogue 2 → Ilze Wolff on “Bessie Head’s Rainclouds as an Architecture of Liberation.”
📅 Wed 19 Nov, 6pm | 📍 West Court, ECA
Acts of cultivation as architectures of resistance.
Register ↓ tinyurl.com/ilzewolff
2nd Colonial Debris, Decolonial Horizons dialogue: Ilze Wolff on “Bessie Head’s Rainclouds as an Architecture of Liberation.” Wed 19 Nov, 6 PM | West Court, ECA. Exploring Rainclouds & Boiteko Garden as acts of writing, community & resistance. tinyurl.com/2s3uyp96 #DecolonialHorizons #ColonialDebris
Over the past days, students and I made a collective drawing of the old college for Grounds of Protest in Colonial Debris.108 years ago, Balfour signed his declaration — perhaps in an office not far from mine.
These histories still shape what silence and resistance mean today.
#Palestine
Ill be giving a talk tonight on Rwanda's Forests and virtue signalling of architecture-ecology-in person + online - details in image @edincollegeofart.bsky.social Image: Karisoke Cabin on a Foggy Day, Rwanda 1969. Photograph by Bob Campbell, Courtesy of University of Florida Special Collections
* First event *Colonial Debris,Decolonial Horizons
Wed 29 Oct, 6pm. Adam House, 3 Chambers St.A public dialogue on University of Edinburgh’s Race Review and its architectural implications with Nicki Frith, Nicola Perugini, Shaira Vadasaria, Samantha Likonde & Claire Walsh 🔗 tinyurl.com/4vfmjtyp
Year-long series @ESALA: **Colonial Debris / Decolonial Horizons**— dialogues + actions responding to University of Edinburgh’s Race Review. Unearthing built legacies of colonialism through lectures, workshops & collective actions. 🗓️ Semester 1 kicks off 29 Oct 🔗 More soon. Come through & share.
**Join us next Thurs 23 Oct, 6:30PM at Adam House LT for *Houses of Flood, Silt and Shadow* — a lecture by architect & writer Matthew Butcher on speculative, environmental design.
Details & work: [matthewbutcher.org](matthewbutcher.org)
#ESALA #Architecture
