Spatial Politics, Memory, and Resistance

Architecture operates within conflict, shaping systems of control while also enabling memory and resistance. Drawing on cases from Algeria, Palestine, and the border between Mexico and the United States, this session investigates military infrastructures, housing, landscapes, and data as political instruments.

Research, practice, and activism intersect to expose silenced histories, question spatial colonialism, and highlight architecture’s role in power relations. The discussion proposes critical strategies that reframe the built environment as a site of struggle, care, and collective emancipation in contemporary global contexts today.