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If you missed last term's launch of Sana Murrani 🧡سنى مُرّاني's latest book 'Rupturing Architecture: Spatial Practices of Refuge in Response to War and Violence in Iraq', you can listen back to the recording here: soundcloud.com/lsemiddleeastc…

Oxford peeps, I'll be talking next week at RefugeeStudiesCentre about Rupturing Architecture Bloomsbury Academic, Refuge-Making, Mapping and Iraq. There will be physical creative outputs/things you can leave with after the talk! Details are here: rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/refuge-…

Join us for the next talk in this term's seminar series! 📆 29 Jan, 5pm, in Oxford Sana Murrani 🧡سنى مُرّاني will talk about her book Rupturing Architecture, which examines the spatial practices of refuge in response to war, violence & displacement in Iraq 2003-23. rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/refuge-…

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Please join us on Wednesday 12 February, 6pm, at The British Academy for our upcoming lecture: A Creative Talk from the Author of Rupturing Architecture by Dr Sana Murrani 🧡سنى مُرّاني To attend via Zoom: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist… To attend in-person: bisi.ac.uk/event/lecture-…

Dr Murrani's book critically and visually examines the spatial practices of refuge in Iraq from 2003 to 2023, exploring how ordinary Iraqis respond to war, violence, and displacement through creative and adaptive refuge-making.

Written by an Iraqi architect who has lived through these traumas, it highlights the resilience and ingenuity of Iraqis in transforming homes, urban spaces, and border geographies into places of refuge.

Through methods such as creative deep mapping, memory work, storytelling, & interviews with fifteen Iraqis, Rupturing Architecture uncovers the dual nature of rupture as both trauma and resistance. It investigates the interplay of domesticity, urbanity, and border spaces while...

.. advocating for spatial justice through a manifesto that integrates place, memory, and trauma, offering insights with global relevance.

The fieldwork, Ruptured Domesticity, for this research project was funded by the British Institute for the Study of Iraq. This talk will include some of the creative outputs from the research that audience members can take away.

Calling early-career researchers in the #UK & #Iraq. Join us for a 4-day online workshop this April, organised by LSE & موجة Moja. We’ll explore the challenges #climatechange poses to Iraqi women & discuss solutions to enhance their resilience. lse.ac.uk/middle-east-ce…

Peeps, this will be my 10th talk about #RupturingArchitecture & I’m turning the notch a bit. Talking at The British Academy hosted by BISI who funded me, there’ll be a mini exhibition of 15 trauma-stories with a book sell discounted by Bloomsbury Academic bisi.ac.uk/event/lecture-…

💭 Missed our Rupturing Architecture book launch last month? Catch up on the Dialogues in Development session with Sana Murrani 🧡سنى مُرّاني and her latest book on how ordinary Iraqis create spaces of refuge. 📺 Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=n6wUjG… 🎧 Stream here: mixcloud.com/dpuucl/rupturi…

Warm thanks to Sana Murrani 🧡سنى مُرّاني for a fascinating talk last week drawing on her book, Rupturing Architecture, which examines the spatial practices of refuge in response to war, violence & displacement in Iraq, 2003-23. If you missed it, you can listen now: soundcloud.com/refugeestudies…

Looking for something to do next week? Join us for our upcoming Lecture and mini exhibition in London: A Creative Talk from the Author of Rupturing Architecture Dr Sana Murrani 🧡سنى مُرّاني 📍The British Academy 📅 12 February, 6pm Free registration: bisi.ac.uk/event/lecture-…

Thank you to everyone who attended our February lecture and mini exhibition last week. Please join us in thanking the brilliant Dr Sana Murrani 🧡سنى مُرّاني for delivering an insightful and thought-provoking lecture. You can now watch the lecture here: youtu.be/h837Fw1MwyA?si…

Save the Date 📌 For the 21st edition of City Debates "Co-map, Re-map, Un-map: Collective, Exploratory, and Radical Cartographies” April 14 – 16, 2025 at Architecture Lecture Hall (ALH), AUB Join us for an outstanding showcase of scholars, researchers, and practitioners

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