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Architecture Biennale"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>The Um Slaim School and Future Pedagogies in Architecture<\/strong><\/h2><br \/>\r\nTitled <em>BUILT\/UNBUILT \u2012 Relational Pedagogies and Participatory Spatial Practice<\/em>, this public program is a constituent component of the Saudi participation to the 2025 Biennale Architettura in Venice which puts front and center the thorny question of how to reshape educational approaches and methodologies in architecture that can respond to 21<sup>st<\/sup> challenges, with a particular interest in exploring forms of knowledge that emerge from the context of Saudi Arabia, the Gulf region and the wider cultural ramifications that connect to the realities of the Global South.<br \/>\r\nThis durational aspect of the project substantiates a co-creation process tasked to establish a new pedagogical initiative in Riyadh post-Biennale, i.e. the titular The Um Slaim School, which foregrounds a novel mode of understanding architecture\u2019s role and purpose in today\/s world rooted in community-making, civic participation and a holistic approach that supports and connects with transnational dialogue about generational experiences engaging in practice-led pedagogies and research-centered methodologies on a global expanse.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nWe kicked off this co-creation process in Riyadh in February 2025 whose thematic explorations are reflected and further expanded in a series of closed-door and public sessions in Venice: Archiving Otherwise \u2013 Cocreating Public Archives and Collective Knowledge; Material Ecologies \u2013 Material Heritage and Rituals of Mitigation, Repair, and Reuse; Pedagogies of Proximity and Relation \u2013 Prototyping Alternative Education; Building Participatory Infrastructures \u2013 Hyperlocal Practices and Connective Organizations.<br \/>\r\n<h2>THE PUBLIC PROGRAM AT PALAZZO DIEDO IN VENICE<\/h2><br \/>\r\nThese intense 3-day sessions generatively produce collective inputs, reflections, shared agendas and methodologies that would shape the future school while also building novel connections and an emergent actionable network of experiences to cement novel learning paths reconnecting to history, socio-ecological frameworks of development attuned to homeostatic principles of reciprocation and coexistence, nature-based methodologies harboured in ancestral and traditional knowledge but also ways of reconfiguring modern and contemporary urban narratives beyond established canons, histories of colonialism and underrepresentation.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nThe program is in itself an experimental testing ground for the future school\u2019s mode of sharing and producing knowledge, and one that reflects at the same time on the contemporary significance, role and function of large scale cultural platforms of which the Biennale is one of the best-reputed examples. Utilizing this opportunity \u2012 its visibility, outreach and professional capacity \u2012 to ensure the project of the pavilion can outlast its limited manifestation over the Biennale\u2019s 6 months period and build for a collectivity of future practitioners, was a strategic approach established from the start.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nA second publication co-published by Mousse and Kapth Books and edited by me and Maryam Alnoaimi who is co-leading the program with me, will feature over 50 contributions by individuals, collectives and initiatives, with the hope that the book too becomes an instrument for research and a proof of concept for the establishment of the school.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<strong>Beatrice Leanza<\/strong>","protected":false},"featured_media":15627,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categorie_magazine":[343],"class_list":["post-15618","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorie_magazine-words-from-marte"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Future, architecture and pedagogy. 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