Wael Al Awar and Anna Tsing - Control and Yield: Living with Feral Ecologies
Document Type
Video
Date
Spring 3-24-2022
Keywords
symposium, Basilica Hudson, "feral ecologies"
Language
English
Disciplines
Art and Design | Interior Architecture | Other Architecture
Description/Abstract
This symposium at Syracuse University and related programming with Toolshed and Basilica Hudson in Hudson, New York will explore the condition of feral ecologies and how we think, act, and live in relation to such spaces, from perspectives of participatory art and design. The event will investigate how to connect theory and practice in order to dwell more ecologically in our communities and on the planet. The keynote speakers will be Anna L. Tsing, a professor of Anthropology at University of California, Santa Cruz, and Wael Al Awar, principal of waiwai design in Abu Dhabi.
In the evening following this midday session, there will be a panel discussion consisting of Syracuse University professors Nina Sharifi, Arnisson Andre Ortega, Sam Van Aken, Yutaka Sho, Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris. These professors will share their work and respond to and discuss the earlier talks along with a live audience.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Film and Media Arts in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, The Canary Lab, Toolshed, Basilica Hudson, Gabe and Katie Nugent, and the Collaboration for Unprecedented Success and Excellence (CUSE) grant program.
Recommended Citation
Awar, Wael Al and Tsing, Anna, "Wael Al Awar and Anna Tsing - Control and Yield: Living with Feral Ecologies" (2022). School of Architecture Lectures Series. 298.
https://surface.syr.edu/architecture_lectures/298
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Additional Information
Wael Al Awar founded waiwai (formerly ibda design) in 2009 as the principal architect, after moving back to the Middle East from Tokyo. With interests in natural phenomena, landscape and formless diagrams of relations, Wael has a multi-disciplinary approach to design and is always looking to challenge conventional processes to push the boundaries of design. His projects layer his individual design sensibilities into an architecture of natural light, time, structure and landscape. By aligning with natural phenomena, Wael seeks to create an architecture that is more than man-made fabrication, but instead remains open to adaptation and appropriation. The spaces that emerge from his approach are site-specific provocations that encourage unexpected experiences, activities and behaviors. Wael Al Awar was the chief Curator of the National Pavillion of the UAE for the 17th Architecture Bienalle di Venezia 2020 & 2021, Recipient of the Golden Lion Award.
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing teaches anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and sometimes also at Aarhus University. Her research follows the humble trails of mushrooms into the great economic, cultural, and ecological dilemmas of our times. She is the a co-editor of the recently published Feral Atlas: the More-Than-Human Anthropocene, author of The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the possibility of life in capitalist ruins (2015), Friction: An ethnography of global connection (2005), and In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an out-of-the-way place (1993), all published by Princeton University Press.