KOBANE
Rojava

Politics of space between revolution and war Kobane   Benas Gerdziunas An unknown entity rose out of the war in Syria – Rojava. As the world’s attention fixated on the Kurds’ fight…

politics of space

{ politics of space }   Kurdish mobilisation in Rojava began in 2011, just as the Syrian uprising was spiralling into a civil war. Institutions that had worked underground for years suddenly…

Benas Gerdziunas

Benas Gerdziunas is a multimedia journalist previously reporting from the EU, Balkans, Belarus, Middle East and Ukraine. Contributing to Lithuania’s national broadcaster (LRT) and Deutsche Welle. Published by AFP, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg…

healing

{ healing }   The biggest hit to Kobane in Rojava, northern Syria, came on June 25, 2015. Several months after defeating ISIS, hundreds of Islamic State fighters sneaked back into town…

Mauro Tosarelli

Mauro Tosarelli is an Italian graphic designer and researcher. After graduating at the ISIA of Urbino in 2017 he enrolled in the post-master course Decolonizing Architecture at the Royal Institute of Art.…

Matthew Ashton

Matthew Ashton is an architect and researcher based in Malmö, where he co- founded the architectural practice SP-ARC together with Sofie Tolf in 2014. His research is interested in the hidden edges…

subversion

{ subversion }   Beside the use of the scissor lift as prosthesis of preservation, the act of going up and looking down through the oculus aims at a symbolic subversion of…

Victoria Van Kan

Victoria van Kan is an architect in exploration and street photographer as point of entry and interest. After graduating at KULeuven she has been meanly working in Paraguay with a architecture collective…

Bert Stoffels

Bert Stoffels is an architect and junior researcher at KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture. His research is focused on the connection between architecture and ideology. He graduated as a Master in Explorative…

Nadia El Hakim

Nadia El Hakim is an architect and exhibition designer based in Paris, France. Graduated from the School of Versailles and TU Delft Faculty of Architecture, she is now running projects of different…