Graduate Program in Media + Modernity | Princeton University

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi 

"Architecture of Migration: Archival Ephemera”

[Response: S. E. Eisterer]

Tuesday, October 22, 2024 @5pm ET

N107 (School of Architecture)

Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement argues that a refugee camp’s aesthetic and material landscapes reveal histories, futures, politics, and rhetorics. Tracing spatial and racial politics in the Dadaab refugee camps on the Kenya-Somalia border, the book examines architectural, planning, and design initiatives and a much older constructed environment that reflects its own ways of knowing. Thinking with a refugee settlement, the book seeks new languages to speak about architecture, Africa, and history. This talk examines the media and materials that create possibility for new narratives, a body of archival ephemera that might have been overlooked.

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi is an architectural historian at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement (Duke University Press, Theory in Forms, 2024) and Minnette De Silva: Intersections (Mack Books, 2024), and developing the manuscript Ecologies of the Past.

 

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