Event Description
This initiative examines the condition of conflict as a space for critical thinking beyond mere reconstruction. Its aim is to confront the enduring legacies, hierarchies, narratives, and laws that continue to shape life long after conflicts have ended. Through a series of discussions held every three weeks, we collectively shape the conversation.
Suggestions for participation are encouraged from a diverse range of perspectives, including architects, researchers, practitioners, students, historians, anthropologists, and artists. Topics may encompass, but are not limited to, language, history, heritage, neoliberal policies, pedagogy, and the formation of urban and social spaces.

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This session resists predefined definitions, and instead, asks how language itself becomes a site of struggle. To speak of the post-war is to accept that war has concluded. But what if war persists, embedded in laws, memories, bodies, and ruins or continues in not-so-distant geographies? To call it reconstruction is to envision repair; yet, what if reconstruction often re-inscribes the very violence it seeks to transcend? This session resists predefined definitions, instead asking how language itself becomes a site of struggle. Together, we want to explore terminologies, refusing to let them obscure histories still in the process of unfolding or to limit the future to repetitive histories of violence. We are still learning how to articulate this condition—what we call it, how we speak of it—and the words we choose carry significant weight. They can hold individuals accountable or, conversely, serve to silence or dismiss. Alongside invited speakers and those in attendance we will collectively unpack the language of war. In some places, the past has been deliberately forgotten or even censored to enable progress. In others, accountability and remembrance continue. The language we choose to employ will influence our decisions and how we navigate these conversations. For now, this space is a blank canvas until further notice.