‘Debris’ Spring School: Sepideh Karami
The ‘Debris’ Spring School is an interdisciplinary learning platform that invites students and researchers to collectively explore socio-environmental challenges through the theme of debris. Join us to reflect on the socio-material implications of what is discarded, forgotten, or misplaced—whether as physical waste, abandoned ideas, or untold stories. By addressing debris as both a metaphor and a material reality, the Spring School interrogates how power dynamics, inequality, and systemic neglect shape the accumulation and management of what society casts aside.
Research domain Civic And Policy Design and The Doctoral School invite you to be part of two hybrid keynotes and workshops with The Bureau of Linguistic Reality (USA) artists and the architect, educator and writer Sepideh Karami (UK). You are also welcome to join us for coffee and cake the first day, a collective dinner the second day and a half-day trip to Modave for the Spring School’s open day and barbeque.
You can sign up for one or all events using the registration link.
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Sepideh Karami: Methods of (UN)Knowing
This talk and workshop will delve into approaches for forging connections with sites, situations, environments and circumstances. The concept of (un)knowing critically challenges conventional methods of understanding, documenting, and recording the existing stories and discovering the hidden ones.
In order to (un)know the sites and situations that we work with, we will construct and craft devices, tools, and concept-toolboxes that enable us to observe, listen to, and engage with minor stories and details. These tools serve as catalysts for generating unconventional narratives, breaking away from the repetitive and tired accounts that currently dominate.
About Sepideh Karami
Sepideh Karami is an architect, educator, writer, and researcher with a PhD in Architecture, Critical Studies (KTH). She is currently a Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA). Throughout her career, she has contributed to teaching, research, and practice in various contexts, including Iran, Sweden, Kenya, and the UK.
Her work is characterised by artistic research, experimental methods and interdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of architecture, performing arts, literature and geology, with the ethos of decolonisation, minor politics and feminism. In her teaching she works with the idea of dirty pedagogies to develop design and research tools and methods to unknow sites and situations. Currently, her research focuses on post-petroleum imaginaries, investigating decolonising ways of storytelling and seeking to reestablish connections with the environments that have been disrupted by a long history of colonisation and extractivism.
Date and location:
- Tuesday May 20th
- 14h00 - 17h00: Sepideh Karami
- 17h00: Cooking and eating together at the kitchen of our faculty (optional)
- faculteit Architectuur en Kunst, Agoralaan, Gebouw E, 3590 Diepenbeek (room E-B20)
- picture: Dirty Pedagogies - Midterm Reviews of MArch Design Studio: Architecture as Support Structure: How To Construct Post-Petroleum Imaginaries—student's work by Mari Helland - 2023, ESALA.
Registration
- You can register via this Google Form
- Spots are limited to 20 people - first come, first served
- For PhD students and postdocs, we would like to draw your attention to the cancellation and no-show policy of UHasselt
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