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Shifting Design Positions

The MArch Programme at the Salford Laboratory of Architecture (S-LAB) and MLA programme at the Manchester School of Architecture (MSA) are delighted to co-host distinguished guest, Professor Jala Makhzoumi, an international scholar and esteemed landscape architecture and ecosystem management educator. Professor Makhzoumi will deliver a public talk on Tuesday, 16 April, at 5:30, preceded by an interdisciplinary postgraduate symposium.

RSVP on Eventbrite

GSAPP Respondent

I'm delighted to be chosen among the "planetary cohort of respondents for AFFIRMATIONS" at Columbia GSAPP, an ambitious program to "practice the reworlding of societies and ecosystems now." Read more about the programme and event dates here.

arch.columbia.edu/affirmations

Intimate Legacies

I had the pleasure of designing and delivering the workshop "Intimate Legacies" for a group of creative graduate students within the Lebanon Unsettled project by Dr Deen Sharp (LSE) & Dr May Farhat (USEK/LAU). Check out this fabulous mappings, histories, stories, and interviews archive. It's filled with fascinating accounts that provide deep insights into the history of Lebanon in the making. More on the LSE Blog.

lebanonunsettled.org

 
 
 

TEACHING

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Research Ideas - Doctorate
PGR, PhD, DDes, MPhil
LET'S TRACE
THE EMERGENT LANDSCAPES
OF TECHNICS, SURVIVABILITY,
AND WAR.
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FOR BSC, MARCH,

& PHD AT THE UNI

OF SALFORD, UK

FROM LEBANON
WITH LOVE!
FROM LEBANON
WITH LOVE!

CURRENT PREOCCUPATIONS

Engineering the Landscape
A speculative & visual collaboration between architect-academic Fadi Shayya & visual artist Matthew Flintham

"The transformation of militarized notions of urban and rural landscapes through warfare across the geographies of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and most recently Ukraine, is accelerated by technical advancements in armoured vehicles and weapons systems. However, it is in the context of training and testing sites in the UK and the USA that we will begin studying the technology of warfare – and by extension, modern technical thought (Simondon 2017) – so that we might establish visual research methods to critique and negotiate technology’s exclusionary territorialization of geography as a battlespace." Read the full proposition here.

FEATURED PUBLICATION
 

“Their arguments about the city are psychogeographic, channeling Guy Debord and the Situationist International.”

(Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, The National 2010)

“Engaged citizens and professionals like Fadi Shayya and others continue to advocate for public spaces in Beirut — places where everyone is welcome and where people from different socioeconomic, religious, and political backgrounds can come together.”

(Susanne Lane, Main Gate 2011)

“Another striking feature characteristic of the positioning of these authors is their radical criticism particularly with regard to urban planning, which played a central role in the normative discourse on reconstruction and reconciliation in post-war Beirut.”

(Éric Verdeil, Métropolitiques 2012)

“At the Edge of the City does a painstaking job of laying out all the issues surrounding the current state of the Horsh. Its writers are impressively dexterous in their combination of theoretical and poetic registers…Yet, what makes this book so wonderful is its emphasis on the solution, not the problem.”

(Michael Teague, Al Jadid 2012)

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CDS Field Survey
Local Economic Development
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Site-specific Design Practice
A Cosmogram for Sayes Court
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Shifting Design Positions, Expanding Design Thinking
Professor Jala Makhzoumi
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Oral History of the 1982 Invasion
Commemorating civilian defiance in Lebanon
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Review of FA's "Cloud Studies"
Cataloguing the work of an architectural detective agency
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This is a very high-quality piece of work which presents a fascinating insight into architecture and design within the Islamic world in its historical context. The research is presented in a very clear and original way using critical analysis which addresses a wide range of novel and complex issues.

(External Examiner for my student's MArch Dissertation, MSA 2020)

Thanks for your continuous support Fadi I really appreciate it- I’m actually enjoying the dissertation.

(MArch Student, MSA 2020)

Your guidance and advice carried me through all the stages of writing my dissertation, and I want to express my gratitude for your time and work.

(MSc Student, University of Salford 2023)

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