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To commemorate a year since the 19th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia in 2025 ❤️

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📣📖 A NEW BOOK!!!
This is my last contribution to 2025 - one I hope will become testament to its radically collaborative and generous nature, offering insight into how we can recenter participation and a sense of purpose in spatial practice and its pedagogies.
Link in bio if you want to get your copy!!
#anepicyear
#newfriendships
#creativealliances

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ℹ️ CONNECTIONS AS METHOD is informed by research, approaches, and perspectives from more than 60 international contributors from across the Arab Gulf and its adjecencies, drawing on the first year of The Um Slaim School—a pioneering initiative that emerges from the work of Riyadh-based Syn Architects and collaborators, as convened by Beatrice Leanza and Maryam AlNoaimi.

Featuring architects, artists, educators, urbanists, and writers, these interactions pilot methodologies of knowledge exchange to establish south-south networks of coproduction across disciplinary boundaries. Tracing transnational alliances, case studies, and thematics from the school’s first year, subjects of inquiry challenge established architectural canons, centering alternative spatial histories and material practices to address urgent ecological and social concerns.

Through newly commissioned texts, conversations, visual and theoretical essays, fieldwork, and tooling curricula, the volume rethinks architectural education as an integrated set of forms and modes of knowledge, nurturing processes of experimentation and research toward social debate, public imagining, and civic enlightenment.

Edited by Beatrice Leanza and Maryam AlNoaimi
560pages - English and Arabic

Published by @moussemagazine and @kaph.books

✍️ Full list of contributors on the back cover image and comments!

Sneak peek of this amazing publication in the video 🎥 ⏩ (swipe through).
🤳 🪞 Double trouble with the wonderful @maryamalnoaimi_ on the last 📸!

THANK YOU to everyone that made this possible and particularly to the @saudipavilion Architecture and Design Commission, who has supported this initiative throughout the past year.

#architectureedication
#futureschool
#designresearch

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Infrastructure shapes a country’s growth, connectivity, and learning. It is not only roads and buildings but also the systems that carry energy, information, and care through society.

This conversation opens Knowledge of Design 2025 by asking how design and science can reshape what infrastructure means for Saudi Arabia today, how it can hold both progress and balance, and build a future that supports life in every form.

To join our panel discussion, grab your tickets by visiting the link in the bio.
#KoD2025 #AlMashtal

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In this third chapter of the Built/Unbuilt public program for the @saudipavilion and The Um Slam School, we dived into the interconnected challenges of recentering spatial pedagogies with notions of relational proximity and the situated conditions of urgent eco-social transitions across a wide geographical expanse.

Another reminder of how these P2P (practitioner2practitioner) moments of co-action, sharing and reflection sit at the heart of reforming educational pathways towards the building of creative alliances for the common good.

Thank you immensely to all these incredible speakers for their generosity, passion and dedication to rewiring architecture with a sense of care, purpose and networked solidarity.

Photos in random order: closed-door session at Saudi Pavilion at the Arsenale, public sharing at Palazzo Diedo @berggruendiedo in yet again a novel configuration devised by @instituteforpostnaturalstudies

Stay tuned for our last chapter in November!
And a major book coming ... 🔜

@labiennale
#theumslaimschool
#architectureeducation
#designresearch #futurepractice #futurepedagogies #institutionalpractices #newschool #architectureanddesign

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📣In Venice this weekend!

🗓️On October 11 from 2 to 7pm join us at Palazzo Diedo @berggruendiedo for the public session of the third and last chapter of our program and its ongoing development of The Um Slaim School - a focused exploration of alternative pedagogical methodolodies founded on realtionality, collaboration and pluridisciplinarity, which by honoring contextual legacy also empower the transgenerational transmission of knowledge, forms of embodied learning and novel transhitorical research subjects.

With a laboratorial process that was led by the inimitable Institute for Postnatural Studies @instituteforpostnaturalstudies - Gabriel Alonso, Yuri Tuma and Daniel H. Ray - unpacking the notion of a "safe space" within a culture of relatability, the program's contributors manifest a transnational network of experiences from the MENA region, its adjecensies, and situated experiences across the Global South and central Europe.

📌swipe through for details of the afternoon agenda!
🔗 hit the link in bio for details

Come spend an afternoon with us, @syn.architects @umslaimcollective and these fabulous practitioners whose work is seeking to bring renewed relevance to architecture as both a spatial and cultural practice of purpose and collective care.

Featuring contributions by:
Caline Matar / Earshot, Faysal Tabbarah / Architecture and Other Things, Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski / Loudreaders, Matylda Krzykowski / CIVIC, Rosario Talevi / Floating University, Setareh Noorani / Nieuwe Instituut, Uns Kattan / Art Jameel, Pelin Tan, Nzinga Biegueng Mboup.

@labiennale
@saudipavilion

#futurethinking #criticalpractice #futurepedagogies #architectureeducation #architectureanddesign #theumslaimschool #saudipavilion

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I can't but be humbled by the sheer energy and generosity of this group of people, the making of new relationships and alliances to rethink design as a truly planetary act.

Thanks once again to these #materialactivists (credit to Mohammed for the collective tag 😉) with whom we explored material landscapes as processes endowed with agentivity - situated, animated and connective - to reshape our future environments, and set forth new pedagogical approaches embracing cultural, geographical and generational crossings.

My deepest gratitude to all of them, Syn Architects @syn.architects , my curatorial co-conspirator Maryam Al Noaimi @maryamalnoaimi_ and most significantly the Architecture and Design Commission @saudipavilion for supporting these forward looking visions and a renewed sense of how educational and cultural platforms can be true agents of transformation.

Read more about all of them in the link in bio, and see you next in October for another exciting session!

In pictures and random order: closed-door session at Saudi pavillion, A Banquet of Materiali Parlanti (speaking materials) conceived with Studio Ossidiana as the setup of our public session at Palazzo Diedo, glimpses of visual and material fieldwork around materiality from all of our contributors and our fantastic students cohort for this second lab.

@labiennale
@umslaimcollective

#futureschool #collaborativepractice
#collectivelearning
#BiennaleArchitettura2025
#saudipavilion
#curatingdesign #futurepedagogies #designresearch #architectureeducation

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🗓️ 📣 We are back!!!

We continue our collective groundwork with Syn Architects and the Um Slam Collective to prototype The Um Slam School this coming weekend - Sept 28/29 around Material Ecologies.

This part of the program invites designers, artists, and spatial researchers to explore how situated knowledge shapes our engagement with materials—not as passive substances to be used and discarded, but as active agents embedded in ecologies, histories, and land-based relations. Anchoring the conversation in material knowledge and experimentation, we ask: How do material landscapes carry memory, resistance, and meaning across contexts and generations? How can embodied, local ways of knowing shift our understanding of matter, authorship, and creation?

📌The research lab was led by the fantastic Studio Ossidiana - come discover the outcomes in Venice and join us September 28 for the public session at Palazzo Diedo with our fenomenal contributors:

Latifa Alkhayat, Mohammad Alfaraj, Collective for Architecture Lebanon / Shereen Doummar, Edouard Souhaid, Jia Yi Gu, Studio Eidola / Denizay Apusoglu and Jonas Kissling, Studio Ossidiana / Giovanni Bellotti and Alessandra Covini, Studio Raw Material / Dushyant Bansal and Priyanka Sharma, Studio Saffar / Kawther Alsaffar.

For more info check 🔗 in bio!

@labiennale
@saudipavilion

#BiennaleArchitettura2025 #theumslaimschool #futurepedagogies #futurethinking #architectureeducation #collectivelearning #collaborativepractice #participation #futureschool #practiceofpurpose

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For three days over June 27-29 we started off the first of our co-creation and research sessions to collectively prototype a future pedagogical initiative—The Um Slam School.

With an absolutely inspiring and passionate group of practitioners from across the Arab World we delved into the role of archival projects and practice as a tool for reframing urban narratives and build novel stories of self-determination and knowledge making.

💥🙏To these amazing individuals and my indefatigable curatorial coconspirator @maryamalnoaimi_ THANK YOU (see them all in action by swiping through!).

In pictures and random order: day 1 co-working at the Saudi Pavilion, day 2 public program at Palazzo Diedo with the first of a series of thematic displays which accompany each session, this on archival projects and initiatives from 15 participants across the Gulf and beyond, performative spill by Bricklab to cement this moment ;)

Read about all of them in the downloadable pdf at the Saudi Pavilion website / 🔗 in bio.

Thanks to the fantastic partnership with Koozarch all that emerged from this convening will be published on their platform for open access.

Last picture @laurianghinitoiu ❤️

See you in the fall for the rest of the program!
@saudipavilion
@labiennale

#summersoon
#architecture
#newpedagogies
#theumslaimschool
#architectureofpurpose
#learning
#collectivecare

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The National Pavilion of Saudi Arabia presents BUILT / UNBUILT, The Um Slaim School’s public program in Venice.

Curated by Beatrice Leanza and co-led by Maryam AlNoaimi, the program features a series of public sessions—including lectures, performances, screenings, readings, and walks—and laboratorial activities developed in collaboration with Bricklab, Studio Ossidiana, and Institute for Postnatural Studies.

The first session of BUILT / UNBUILT will be on the 27-29 of June, titled ARCHIVING OTHERWISE — Cocreating Public Archives and Collective Knowledge.

Head to @saudipavilion bio for registration link! Attendance is free upon registration.

#biennalearchitettura2025 #BuiltUnbuilt #publicprogramme #Aimes #IntelliGens #Aimesart #Aimesprojects

الجناح الوطني السعودي يقدم "بناء/ تفكيك"، البرنامج العام لمدرسة أم سليم في البندقية.

بقيادة القيّمة بياتريس ليانزا بالتعاون مع مريم النعيمي، يضم البرنامج سلسلة من الجلسات العامة مثل المحاضرات، العروض البصرية، القراءات، والجولات، إلى جانب أنشطة مخبرية بالتعاون مع Bricklab، وStudio

Ossidiana،Institute for Postnatural Studies.

تنطلق أولى جلسات "بناء/ تفكيك " من ٢٧ إلى ٢٩ يونيو تحت عنوان "أرشفة مختلفة: المشاركة ببناء أرشيف ومعارف مشتركة".

سجّلوا الآن من خلال الرابط في بايو @saudipavilion! الحضور مجاني بعد التسجيل.

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🔜 Next Week!

✏️ ARCHIVING OTHERWISE is the first of our public program sessions each of which is designed in a tripartite structure, presented over three days in Venice. (🔗 In bio for details)

@saudipavilion
@labiennale

In both concept and practice, these intensive sessions of public and professional interaction represent a piloting of the future school’s methodologies of knowledge exchange and coproduction, while starting to consolidate research agendas and collaborative networks traversing disciplinary and geographical territories.

For ARCHIVING OTHERWISE our first theme we explore the making and long-term accessibility of archives through interdisciplinary practices of cocreation and storytelling to reframe architectural and urban narratives and to generate tools for sharing and knowledge-making in the future of the school and beyond.

The absolutely fabulous contributions to these sessions bring together practices and experiences from transnational contexts and from across the Arab world, to contemplate how to render past and present stories resonant with the expanded archives of an inclusive future.

Act of Oneness / Abdulla Buhijji and Mahmood Sharif, Maryam AlNoaimi, AMASyria (Archive of Modern Architecture in Syria) / Ahmad Salah and Mirma Alwareh, Aseel AlYaqoub, George Arbid, bytwo / Abdullah Kenani and Mohammed Alruways, Bricklab / Abdulrahman and Turki Gazzaz, Civil Architecture / Ali Ismail Karimi, Limbo Accra / Dominique Petit-Frère, Ahmad Makia, MAMMA (Modernist Architects of Morocco Memorial Association) / Lahbib El Moumni, Majazz Project & Palestinian Sound Archive / Mo’min Swaitat, Möbius Design Studio, Mohammed Alhamdan (7amdan), SUSA Space / Sara and Suzan Ibrahim, Syn Architects / Sara Alissa, Nojoud Alsudairi, and Abdullah AlYahya.

🎢 JOIN US next week in Venice!!! 💯

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With just two weeks til we'll reconvene for our ongoing program in Venice, I look back at months of absolute inspiration, enjoyment, joyful togetherness, intellectual communion, the fun and laughs, the food, the urban explorations, the beauty of people meeting in and with ideas and sharing hearts and minds.
It's been a journey of constant learning, discovery and for this I can only thank this incredible group of people that took me with them on it.
Thank you Sara, Nojoud, Abdullah at Syn, the dynamic duo of bytwo (M&A!), Ahmad, Sara and Maryam who have followed my ramblings with patience and taught me a universe anew, Laurian, Maha, Mohammed 7hamdan, Mansor for your creative grace, and to Dr. Sumayah, Ebtihal and Moudhi for making all this possible.

See you back in Venice soon!

#saudiarabiapavillion #BiennaleArchitettura2025
#greatcollaborations #friendship #lifejourneys #lifework #lifelessons #architectureeducation #designandthecity #builtunbuilt #publicprogram #comingsoon #venicedays

-> 🔗 in bio to check program dates 🗓️
First session JUNE 27-29

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📌UPCOMING!!
🗓️SAVE THE DATES and come see us in Venice!

The National Pavilion of Saudi Arabia presents BUILT / UNBUILT, The Um Slaim School’s public program. This evolving initiative is a dynamic site for collective research and knowledge production throughout the Biennale, engaging international practitioners and thinkers with interdisciplinary backgrounds.

Curated by yours truly and co-led by the absolutely wonderful Maryam AlNoaimi, the program features a series of public sessions—including lectures, performances, screenings, readings, and walks—and laboratorial activities developed in collaboration with Bricklab, Studio Ossidiana, and Institute for Postnatural Studies.

📢 BUILT / UNBUILT will unfold from June to November 2025, with sessions at the Saudi Pavilion and free public sessions by registration at Berggruen Arts & Culture – Palazzo Diedo.

ℹ️ For more information hit the 🔗 in bio or write to events@saudipavilion.org

@labiennale
@syn.architects @umslaimcollective

@beabiyue
@maryamalnoaimi_

@_bricklab
@studio_ossidiana
@instituteforpostnaturalstudies

@berggruendiedo

#BiennaleArchitettura2025 #SaudiPavilion #UmSlaimSchool #synarchitects #IntelliGens #LaBiennaleDiVenezia #VeniceBiennale
#BuiltUarchmoc

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