Reclaiming identity through urban interventions, a lecture & workshop by Hasan Hashas
Saturday January 24𝘁𝗵 - Reclaiming identity through urban interventions, a lecture & workshop by Hasan Hashas
As part of our current exhibition Between Land and Sky, Between Borders, We Meet, program maker Oudail el Omari invites Urbanist, Architect and Researcher Hasan Hashas for a lecture and workshop on how urban-cracks can be used as opportunities to redefine the social identity of a city.
The lecture explores the in-between scale at the intersection of architecture and urbanism, by reinterpreting overlooked spaces – urban cracks – as experimental spaces, revealing their potential beyond conventional top-down and bottom-up frameworks. During the workshop Hasan will share his methodology on how to map these leftover spaces and how one’s identity can be leveraged into these urban cracks, giving agency back to the inhabitants over the neighbourhoods where diverse identities are settled.
Program
15.00 – 15.30 >> Walk-in
15.30 – 16.00 >> Lecture
16.00 – 17.00 >> Workshop: in search of urban cracks around the showroom
17.00 – 17.30 >> Exchange of findings and reflection
17.30 – 18.00 >> Drinks
🗓️ Saturday, November 2nd, 19:00-20:00
📍 MaMA, Witte de Withstraat 29-31, Rotterdam
🎟 Tickets can be purchased via this link
Between Land and Sky, Between Borders, We Meet encourages the visitor to develop a unique perspective – one that reclaims and redefines Arab identities, moving beyond classical notions and contemporary political framings. Through the diverse perspectives and stories of a collective of artists living in the Netherlands and originating from West Asia and North Africa (WANA), the exhibition transcends imposed boundaries, with art as its compass. Beyond assumptions, prejudice, and inherited narratives, Between Land and Sky, Between Borders, We Meet creates a space where connection outweighs the borders that separate Arabs. One where the diaspora is no longer the subject of the story – but its storyteller.
Hasan works within a multidisciplinary practice at the intersection of architecture and urbanism, with a focus on identity and the re-reading of space. Informed by an academic background from Damascus, Budapest, and TU Delft, the work is grounded in a research-by-design approach that translates data and analytical methods into design inputs. The work has been recognized through nominations and awards and is further documented at: hasan-hashas.eu.