Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration
“Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration,” co-edited by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi and Rachel Lee, is a collection of articles and media published in three phases from 2019–2022 in the open-access online journals ABE Journal: Architecture Beyond Europe, Canadian Centre for Architecture, and Aggregate. It takes migration as the central concept and historical event behind feminist narratives of constructed environments and spatial and material practices, testing migration as a method of writing antipatriarchal, antiracist, anticasteist, and antiformalist architectural histories. In historiographical solidarity with people in the past and present deterritorialized and dispossessed of land and home, collaborators on this project undertake a feminist practice of history writing and make a space for migrant narratives of built environments. Both, by necessity, are based in collaboration.
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi (Barnard College, Columbia University), Armaghan Ziaee (California State University, San Marcos), Ateya Khorakiwala (Columbia University), Eunice Seng (The University of Hong Kong), Ross Exo Adams (Bard College), and S.E. Eisterer (Princeton University) will launch the collection, and discuss the project, the work of collaboration, and more. Moderated by members of GSAPPX+ and Bryony Roberts.
This event will take place in-person at Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall, Columbia University, and online. A link to the livestream will be provided closer to the date of the event.
About the Collection
Explore the collection here. Excerpts from each contribution to this collection were chosen and read as part of a video produced in solidarity with this project.
Articles and media by: Ana María León, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Armaghan Ziaee, Assia Samaï-Bouadjadja, Claire Zimmerman, Eunice Seng, Juan Du, Huda Tayob, Irina Davidovici, Irene Brisson, Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Katrin Albrecht, Lori A. Brown, Mary Pepchinski, Rachel Lee, Ross Exo Adams, S. E. Eisterer, Samprati Pani, Sarover Zaidi, Tânia Fontenele Mourão, Warebi Gabriel Brisibe, and Will Davis.
Readings by: Ana Gisele Ozaki, Annapurna Garimella, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Aya Musmar, Diana Lee-Smith, Elis Mendoza, Esra Akcan, Hollyamber Kennedy, Ipek Türeli, Ishita Shah, Itohan Osayimwese, Joy Mboya, Lilian Chee, María Novas Ferradas, Namita Vijay Dharia, Nida Rehman, Nora Akawi, Olga Touloumi, Patricia Morton, Rachel Lee, Rupali Gupte, Tania Gutiérrez-Monroy, Torsten Lange, and Zoé Samudzi.
Accessibility
ASL interpretation will be provided.
This is an in-person and online event, free and open to all. Registration is preferred. The general public must register in advance and confirm COVID-19 vaccination status in compliance with current Columbia University health requirements using this online form to attend in person.
About the image:
Delhi-based puppet theater company Katkatha, in a workshop with university students from Jamia Millia Islamia and children from the community. These collaborations shaped spaces of protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) in India. Photo taken with the consent of those pictured and the caregivers of the children, provided courtesy of Anurupa Roy and Katkatha, www.katkatha.org.