Archiving from the Margins Inward
The 19th International Architecture Exhibition – The Um Slaim School: An Architecture of Connection
AMASyria co-founders, Ahmad Salah and Mirma AlWareh, participated in Archiving Otherwise: Co-creating Public Archives and Collective Knowledge, the opening strand of the Public Program of the Saudi National Pavilion, BUILT / UNBUILT, at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
Through open discussions and panel presentations, we engaged with distinguished colleagues and practitioners from across the region, exchanging perspectives on how interdisciplinary practices of co-creation and storytelling can reframe architectural and urban narratives.
As part of the Pavilion's 'Archipelago of Archives' exhibition, AMASyria presented 'Archiving from the Margins Inward,' a display connecting fragments of the modern Syrian architectural scene throughout the twentieth century, foregrounding alternative modes of knowledge production and critically addressing the absence of archival infrastructures, and finally, contributing to the concluding publication 'Connections as Method: Relational Pedagogies and Participatory Spatial Practice'.