Yara Sharif

Yara Sharif (PS) is a Palestinian architect and academic based in the UK. Through research and design, her work seeks to disrupt colonial power structures and hierarchies of knowledge production, advocating for alternative narratives and spatial practices that challenge erasure.

She co-founded the Palestine Regeneration Team and Architects for Gaza (AFG), a global platform of architects, academics, planners, and researchers committed to Gaza and Palestine through principles of spatial justice and decoloniality.

Her book Architecture of Resistance, along with her broader work on reimagining spatial possibilities in Palestine, has received several prestigious awards and has been widely exhibited and published.

SESSION

11:00-11:45 (EN)

YARA SHARIF | RECLAIMING, REMEMBERING, AND REAWAKENING A SCARRED LANDSCAPE

Architects for Gaza’s strategy for healing and empowering the scarred landscapes of Gaza centres on accumulated small-scale, site-specific interventions as an alternative to master plans and a one-size-fits-all approach. At a time when global powers openly call for turning Gaza into a blank canvas and redrawing it, architecture has the potential to challenge the colonial narrative and hierarchy of knowledge production, exploring repair as resistance, mourning, and continuity.

Yara Sharif (PS): Architect and Academic, University of Westminster; Co-founder of Palestine Regeneration Team and Architects for Gaza

Moderator: Aria Gilani (US): Architect, Artist, and Co-curator, OPEN26

12:45-13:30 (EN)

MARWA AL-SABOUNI, ANNA PASHYNSKA, TANIA PASHYNSKA & YARA SHARIF | HOPE

What is the role of hope and imagination in times and places when the material reality, alongside the very ideas, of home, cultural heritage, and fundamental human rights are actively threatened? A conversation between Marwa Al-Sabouni, Anna Pashynska, Tania Pashynska and Yara Sharif

Marwa Al-Sabouni (SY): Architect, urban thinker and author
Yara Sharif (PS): Architect and Academic, University of Westminster; Co-founder of Palestine Regeneration Team and Architects for Gaza
Anna & Tania Pashynska (UA): Co-founders of CO-HATY

Moderator: Nora Ramadan Jepsen (DK/EG): Architecture student, Aarhus School of Architecture

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