Collective Life: Repairing Community and Building Neighbourhoods for Life
A conversation between:
26/10/2023
19:00 – 21:00
HJL Dream Space
Resource for London
352 Holloway Road
London
N7 6PA
Description
This conversation between Nabil Al-Kinani (Privatise the Mandem), Dhelia Snoussi (Museum of London), Amahra Spence (MAIA) and chaired by Farzana Khan (Healing Justice London) will explore the ways that we collectivise neighbourhood life. The conversation will delve into the the intersections of community organising, public policy and legal interventions, as part of building practical and collective ownership models.
This event will be BSL interpreted.
Biographies
By day, Nabil Al-Kinani is a built-environment professional with a keen interest in urbanism, placemaking, sustainable development and place vision. By night, he is a cultural producer that uses creative practice to deliver changemaking projects that draw focus on the relationship between spaces and stories. Other strands of his work includes the exploration of spatial politics, identity, culture and migration.
Dhelia Snoussi is a curator, researcher and artist from West London. She is currently Curator of Contemporary London at the Museum of London. Previously, Dhelia worked in research and policy, authoring “‘We Are Ghosts’: Race, Class and Institutional Prejudice” at the Runnymede Trust and the Centre for Labour and Social Studies. Before then, she co-developed transformative arts and political education programmes at Voices that Shake! Dhelia is also a Trustee at Granville Community Kitchen.
Amahra Spence is a cultural worker and spatial practitioner. Guided by lineages of Black Imagination, spatial justice and a more-than-human cosmology, she invests in the intimacy of transformation, to explore its possibilities across design, space, systems and governance, as rehearsal for liberation. As the Founding Director of MAIA, Amahra works to prototype community-rooted life-affirming infrastructures in the spirit of Grandad’s house. She is also Organiser for the Black Land and Spatial Justice Project, and currently Visiting Lecturer of “Architectures of Abolition” at Birmingham City University.
Farzana Khan is a writer and social sculptor. Farzana is the co-founder and Executive Co-director of Healing Justice Ldn. Her practice works on building community health, repair and self-transformation rooted in disability justice, survivor work, structural justice and trauma-informed practice working with communities of colour and other marginalised and underrepresented peoples. Farzana has a background in youth and community work particularly focused on social justice organising and cultural work both in the UK and internationally. Farzana is the former creative and strategic director at Voices that Shake, bringing together young people, artists and campaigners to develop creative responses to social injustice. She ran this working at Platform London, a climate and social justice organisation working across arts, education, research and activism. Farzana is a trustee of International Curatorial Forum and Stuart Hall Foundation. She also sits on the advisory board of Kids of Colour.
