Monday 05/10/2026 18:00-20:00

The lecture will be about practices of threshold spaces in the Occupied West Bank of Palestine. Tan will present her documentaries about the spatial production of Palestine, seed archives, alternative pedagogical activities between 2014 and 2023, and field research on Palestinian modernist architectural heritage.

The lecture will take place in the framework of the course: CRITICAL APPROACHES IN ARCHITECTURAL THEORY AND DESIGN| RECONSTRUCTIONS: GAZA (Instructor: P. Phokaides, Ass. Prof. Dept. of Arch, UTh)

Short bio:
Pelin Tan is a sociologist, researcher, and head of the Cultural Studies graduate program of Batman University, based in Mardin, Turkiye. She was the 6th recipient of the Keith Haring Art&Activism fellowship at Bard College, 2019–2020, NYC. Tan is a member of the curatorial board of IBA Stuttgart 2027, the research network steering committee of the Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal, 2025–2027, and co-curator of Urgent Pedagogies (IASPIS). Tan was a visiting professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic School of Design (2016), the Architecture Faculty of the University of Cyprus (2018), and the Orient Institute in Beirut, Lebanon. She leads research on the threshold infrastructure of the Culture of Assembly, at the Luxembourg University’s Architecture Faculty; and Landscapes As Archives, a spatial research on the region of the Tigris River in Iraq. Her books include, Forms of Non-Belonging, e-flux books/Sternberg, 2026. Unconditional Hospitality –Threshold Architecture, dpr-barcelona, 2027.

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