{"id":6870,"date":"2024-05-02T07:02:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T07:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=6870"},"modified":"2024-05-24T13:34:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T13:34:41","slug":"architecture-of-migration-the-dadaab-refugee-camps-and-humanitarian-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=6870","title":{"rendered":"Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Environments associated with migration are often seen as provisional, lacking both history and
architecture. As Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi demonstrates in\u00a0Architecture of Migration, a refugee
camp\u2019s aesthetic and material landscapes\u2014even if born out of emergency\u2014reveal histories,
futures, politics, and rhetorics. She identifies forces of colonial and humanitarian settlement,
tracing spatial and racial politics in the Dadaab refugee camps established in 1991 on the Kenya-
Somalia border\u2014at once a dense setting that manifests decades of architectural, planning, and
design initiatives and a much older constructed environment that reflects its own ways of
knowing. She moves beyond ahistorical representations of camps and their inhabitants by
constructing a material and visual archive of Dadaab, finding long migratory traditions in the
architecture, spatial practices, landscapes, and iconography of refugees and humanitarians.
Countering conceptualizations of refugee camps as sites of border transgression, criminality, and
placelessness, Siddiqi instead theorizes them as complex settlements, ecologies, and material
archives created through histories of partition, sedentarization, domesticity, and migration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaker Bio:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi<\/strong>\u00a0(she\/her) was born in Chennai, India, and specializes in histories of
architecture, modernity, and migration, centering African and South Asian questions of
historicity and archives, heritage politics, and feminist and colonial practices.\u00a0\u00a0Her
scholarship\u00a0aims to foreground histories of marginalized people and figures and
promote\u00a0practices of collaboration and\u00a0support, especially concerning the lives and narratives of
communities that have been systematically excluded or silenced. Thinking through objects,
buildings, and landscapes, her work examines intellectual histories and diverse forms of esthetic
practice and cultural production. She is the author of Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab
Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement\u00a0(Duke University Press, 2023), Minnette de Silva
and a Modern Architecture of the Past (forthcoming), and co-editor of Feminist Architectural
Histories of Migration\u00a0(Architecture Beyond Europe, Canadian Center for Architecture,
Aggregate) and\u00a0Spatial Violence\u00a0(Architectural Theory Review,\u00a0republished by Routledge)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Date:<\/strong> 06\/05\/2024 Monday
Time:<\/strong> 16:30
Place:<\/strong> FFB-22<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Environments associated with migration are often seen as provisional, lacking both history andarchitecture. As Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi demonstrates in\u00a0Architecture of Migration, a refugeecamp\u2019s aesthetic and material landscapes\u2014even if born out of emergency\u2014reveal histories,futures, politics, and rhetorics. She identifies forces of colonial and humanitarian settlement,tracing spatial and racial politics in the Dadaab refugee camps established in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186,7,6,129],"tags":[135,161],"class_list":["post-6870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-172","category-architectural-historytheory-book-talks","category-lectures","category-news","category-research-stories","tag-history","tag-theory-and-criticism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6870"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6884,"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870\/revisions\/6884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arch.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}