2024 - 2025 Factory ~ Student Led: ASSEMBLING ON PALESTINE II: Threads of Learning and Language
DECEMBER 6, 2024
Led by Annette Rodriguez Fiorillo, Olfa Arfaoui, Qiaoling Cai & Tuba Kılıç
When: 15:00 - 17:00
Location: TBA
This workshop is the second edition of the Assembling on Palestine student-led series. In the first session at PAF, we came together to share ideas and reflect on how we can continue learning, teaching, and assembling around Palestine in meaningful ways.
For this second edition, we are focusing on unlearning colonial ideas embedded in education and reconnecting with forms of knowledge rooted in our own experiences and communities. Inspired by Palestinian educator Munir Fasheh’s reflections on decolonizing education, this workshop invites you to explore six profound Arabic words:
Mujaawarah, yuhsen, muthanna, aafiyah, howiyyah, and ahaali.
Olfa Arfaoui will guide us through the workshop using the text as a reference, helping us unpack the deeper meanings behind these words. Together, we’ll discuss these words, reflect on their meanings, and connect them to our own experiences, languages, and local contexts. Alongside this, the workshop includes a Tadreez (Palestinian embroidery) session, where we’ll stitch patterns inspired by these words onto fabric zines. With this, we would like to offer a space to reflect, create, and weave our collective insights into tangible form.
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Assembling on Palestine I
Led by Sara Alberani
When: 20:30 - 22:00
Location: Music Room
→ The long journey at DAI, during the genocide in Gaza and the recent attacks in Lebanon, led to a deepening of the Palestinian cause through theory classes, COOPs and Palestine Teach Outs.
→ How the student body engages long term with the Palestinian anti-colonial struggle from multiple perspectives:
Content: Theory, COOPs, Palestine Teach Outs
Tactics and strategies: BDS, PACBI and the relationship with Academia
The impact of the global geopolitical context as a Roaming Academy
Silence and censorship in the cultural world: how to be vocal on Palestine?
Forms of solidarity and a new internationalism, actions and ways of working together
Practices of mourning, of love, of protest: how the Palestinian cause enters our lives, our artistic research, our studies. Suggestions for collective readings, letter exchanges, etc.