Sandi Hilal Explained

Sandi Hilal
Birth Place:West Bank, Beit Sahour
Nationality:Palestinian
Occupation:Architect

Sandi Hilal (born 1973) is a Palestinian architect, writer, and researcher. Hilal was Head of the Infrastructure and Camp Improvement Program in the West Bank at UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) from 2008 to 2014.[1]

Early life and education

Hilal was born in Beit Sahour, near Bethlehem.[2] She graduated with a Master's from the Sapienza University of Rome and a PhD from the University of Trieste in Transborder policies for daily life.[3] She was then an assistant professor of Fine Art and Urban Studies at the Università Iuav di Venezia. She has since been a visiting professor at Lund University.[4]

DAAR - Decolonising Architecture Art Research

See main article: Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency. Based in Palestine, DAAR is a collective working on art and architecture, comprising Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti and Eyal Weizman. The collective offers new pedagogical practices for teaching, sharing and assembling. Through processes of talking, treasuring and gathering with memories, they enact re-constructions of living spaces, focusing on diasporic existences and refugee camps. Their work extends thinking on intangible heritage: they widen possibilities for re-establishing presence, by exploring provisionality and permanence in the built environment.[5] They re-imagine, re-design and re-purpose Israeli architecture as de-colonial practice:[6] “speculating about the seemingly impossible, the actual transformation of the structures of domination.”[5]

The Campus in Camps project (2012–2016) created a learning and project space in refugee camps in collaboration with Al Quds University (Al Quds/Bard Partnership) and hosted by the Phoenix Center in Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem and with the support of the Popular Committees of Southern West Bank refugee camps.[7]

Shu'fat School (2014) is a girls school built in Shu'fat refugee camp on the outskirts of Jerusalem. created with the goal of making a collaborative space for learning that encourages participants as active agents in their education.[8]

Architectural Interventions

Concrete Tent, Dheisheh[9] (2015) and (2018) is a project that explores the tent's historic role as a mobile or temporary housing structure. It works to make this solid, using concrete to fix the form of the tent as a more permanent structure. It was exhibited at the Sharjah Architecture Biennial in 2023.[10]

Publications

Exhibitions and institutional collaborations

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti . 2024-05-20 . CCS Bard.
  2. Web site: Sandi Hilal. Swedish Arts Grants Committee. 14 March 2023 . 23 May 2024.
  3. Web site: Curriculum Vitae Sandi Hilal. Bir Zeit University. 10 June 2024.
  4. Web site: LAS22 (re)Activating architectures. Lund University. 2022. 23 May 2024.
  5. Aikau . Hokulani K. . Arvin . Maile . Goeman . Mishuana . Morgensen . Scott . 2015 . Indigenous Feminisms Roundtable . Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies . 36 . 3 . 84–106 . 10.1353/fro.2015.a604904 . 1536-0334.
  6. Web site: GSD MEdiNa Conversation: Sandi Hilal, "Architecture and Participation in Palestinian Refugee Camps" . 2024-05-20 . Harvard Graduate School of Design . en-US.
  7. Web site: West Bank refugee camps.
  8. Web site: School in Exile . 2024-05-20 . Archis . en-US.
  9. Web site: Kufer . Katrina . 2018-04-30 . Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti . 2024-05-20 . Artforum . en-US.
  10. Web site: 2024-01-02 . DAAR Presents "Concrete Tent" at Sharjah Architecture Triennial 2023 . 2024-05-20 . ArchDaily . en-US.
  11. Web site: DAAR - Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti Stateless Heritage . 2024-05-20 . The Mosaic Rooms . en.
  12. Web site: Permanent Temporariness: Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti . 2024-05-20 . NYUAD Art Gallery.
  13. Web site: Common Assembly (Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency - DAAR) . 2024-05-20 . Forensic Architecture.
  14. Web site: The artistic research practice of DAAR . 2024-06-10.
  15. Web site: DAI Roaming Academy - Sandi Hilal . 2024-06-10.
  16. Web site: Women, Design and Democracy . 2024-06-10.
  17. Web site: 20 May 2023. The awards of the Biennale Architettura 2023. 2024-04-29. en-GB.

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