The C4/C6 lectures consist of different (international) speakers, themes and cases each year, in which the relationships and interaction between theory, society and design are revealed. This semester, you are warmly invited to join the lectures through a livestream.

Digital Divinations: Bridging Timelines
by Miriam Hillawi Abraham

"I work outside the learned methods of formal architectural practice by appropriating and subverting digital technologies and mythmaking in order to approximate realities that destabilize our dysfunctional present and allow us to consider multiplicities in our worldviews. I seek belonging forothered bodies in fractured geographies and an increasingly elusive future through a process of “Critical Fabulation” (coined by Sadia Hartman), stemming severed timelines and reimagining a past rather than attempting to repair it. My practice extends into a type of experimental conservation whereby sites, spaces and bodies of knowledge in the Global South can extend their lives through digital continuity and conscious mutation, escaping their geographical and historical limitations in a digital continuum, an unruly world. As Blackness and othered subjectivities have been historically banished to the margins, the realms of the exotic, the unknown and unknowable, the politics of design and the emergence of new media technologies offers us a new mode of being, through asserting our stories across the gaps and limits of estimation and embracing the possibilities of unknowability and opacity through error."

“Errors, ever unpredictable, surface the unnameable, point toward a wild unknown. To become an error is to surrender to becoming unknown, unrecognizable, unnamed.”
- Glitch Feminism, Legacy Russell