Workshop
Permanent Temporariness
February 25-26, 2018, 9:00AM
NYUAD Campus, Conference Center
Past Event
By Invitation
Interested scholars please contact nyuad.programs@nyu.eduThe Symposium explores the limits and the potentialities of the condition of “permanent temporariness,” as with refugee camps, where tents have been transformed into concrete houses. The symposium aims to draw parallels between different conditions of impermanence and displacement that is affecting a vast number of people living as guests in host countries.
Image credit: Designed by DAAR, photo Anna Sara for Campus in Camps
The Symposium explores the limits and the potentialities of the condition of “permanent temporariness,” as with refugee camps, where tents have been transformed into concrete houses. The symposium aims to draw parallels between different conditions of impermanence and displacement that is affecting a vast number of people living as guests in host countries.
Image credit: Designed by DAAR, photo Anna Sara for Campus in Camps
- Salwa Mikdadi, Associate Professor Practice of Art History, NYUAD
- NYU Abu Dhabi Institute