Lab Life

ID: Video footage from the T.Jayashree Audio Visual Collection, QAMRA. Footage courtesy of Ammel Sharon for the workshop at the Just Futures Co-lab entitled,...

MA in Contemporary Art Practice | Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: SAH CONNECTS: Surveillance, Cartography, Aerial Imaging and the Conquest of Palestine. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

In the context of the disastrous consequences of the ongoing war, this SAH CONNECTS panel will explore the entangled histories of aerial vision and the built environment in Palestine. What role do aerial vision and cartography play in casting light on the dispossession of Palestinians from Palestine, from their homes and territories? Although Palestine (especially Jerusalem) had been a favorite topic of pre-modern cartography due to its centrality to the three monotheistic religions, it was not until the nineteenth century that mapping the region became a significant military-scientific enterprise. Today Israel claims sovereignty over Palestinian airspace. This control has made it difficult to evaluate human loss, damage to archeological sites, infrastructure, environment, the residential fabric, and the land. The program will build on the 2021 exhibition and book “Palestine from Above,” which showcased contemporary art works by local and international artists and practitioners, together with archival and historical documents. It was the culmination of a collaborative research project, also called “Palestine from Above,” and was curated by a committee comprised of Zeynep Çelik, Salim Tamari, Zeinab Azarbadegan and Yazid Anani. The “Palestine from Above” project (on view September 11, 2021 to January 15, 2022 at the A.M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah, Palestine) traced various imperial, colonial, and Zionist efforts to surveille the territory. Çelik and Tamari and moderator Morton will discuss how and if the historical awareness accumulated by the exhibition and publication project can be leveraged for disciplinary knowledge production among architectural historians. Following their presentations, Patricia Morton will lead a 30-minute Question and Answer discussion, focusing on the implications of their research for our discipline and what architectural historians who are not area experts can learn from this project.

Pronoun and Preferred Name Information Sheet

You may be wondering why the lab has this sheet put out—and for whom? Or why learning about people’s pronouns and preferred name matters? [1] Designed as a...

A Digital Humanities Lab

ID: Sample syllabi, books, zines, project worksheets, woven artifacts, posters, and postcards constituting the cumulative student-centered work of the Just...

Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, no. 23 | Manifold @CUNY

<h3>Edited by Nikki Fragala Barnes, Summer L. Hamilton, Asma Neblett, Kush Patel, and Danica Savonick</h3> <p>“This special issue draws on hooks’s radical, inclusive, disruptive, and recuperative legacy to explore the use of digital technology in teaching, educational organizing, and anti-oppressive praxes within, alongside, and beyond academia. We ask: What kinds of embodied and communal interactions are enabled by teaching with technology? How can we reconcile the inherent contradictions in a learning community where technology functions as a tool for social justice and for surveillance capitalism?”</p>

On-Campus Courses 2024 | Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI)

In Scholarly-Creative Community

ID: Dr Susan Potter giving a talk at Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design, and Technology on MAHE-Bengaluru campus. The talk and seminar were part of the Just Futures Co-lab public programming ...

Collections and Impressions

ID: A shared desktop computer by the window used for cataloging collections and making descriptive metadata at QAMRA’s former location in Cooke Town, Bengaluru. Contents of individual collections...