Les perspectives ouvertes pour l'enseignement de l'architecture par l'initiative pionnière de l'école Um Slaim à Riyad.
With vital insights into situated spatial practices across the Arab Gulf and its adjacencies, Connections as Method: Relational Pedagogies and Participatory Spatial Practice is informed by research, approaches, and perspectives from more than sixty international contributors. The volume draws on the first year of The Um Slaim School—a pioneering initiative that emerges from the work of Riyadh-based Syn Architects and their collaborators, as convened by Beatrice Leanza and Maryam AlNoaimi for the National Pavilion of Saudi Arabia at the Biennale Architettura 2025.
Featuring architects, artists, educators, urbanists, and writers, these interactions pilot methodologies of knowledge exchange to establish south-south networks of coproduction across disciplinary boundaries. Tracing transnational alliances, case studies, and thematics from the school's first year, subjects of inquiry challenge established architectural canons, centering alternative spatial histories and material practices to address urgent ecological and social concerns.
Through conversations, visual and theoretical essays, fieldwork, and tooling curricula, the volume rethinks architectural education as an integrated set of forms and modes of knowledge, nurturing processes of experimentation and research toward social debate, public imagining, and civic enlightenment.
This volume is a complement to The Um Slaim School: An Architecture of Connection, the inaugural publication documenting Syn Architects' foundational research and proposing a localized spatial discourse relevant to Saudi Arabia and the broader region.
Edité par Beatrice Leanza et Maryam AlNoaimi.
Contributions de Abdulla Buhijji et Mahmood Sharif / Act of Oneness ; Ahmad Makia ; Archive of Modern Architecture in Syria / Ahmad Salah et Mirma Alwareh ; Aseel AlYaqoub ; Bricklab / Abdulrahman et Turki Gazzaz ; bytwo / Abdullah Kenani et Mohammed Alruways ; Caline Matar / Earshot ; Civil Architecture / Ali Ismail Karimi ; Collective for Architecture Lebanon / Edouard Souhaid et Shereen Doummar ; Cruz Garcia et Nathalie Frankowski / Loudreaders ; Dominique Petit-Frère / Limbo Accra, Eva Franch i Gilabert ; Faysal Tabbarah / Architecture et Other Things ; George Arbid ; Ghada Alsadoun ; Haifa AlRassi ; Hayfa Algwaiz ; Institute for Postnatural Studies / Daniel H. Rey, Gabriel Alonso, et Yuri Tuma ; James O'Leary ; Jia Yi Gu ; Kawther Alsaffar / Studio Saffar ; Lahbib El Moumni / Modernist Architects of Morocco Memorial Association ; Lama Binshalhoub ; Latifa Alkhayat ; Laurian Ghinițoiu ; Layan Alsuhaibani ; Layla Algwaiz ; Maghras / Lulu Almana et Sara Al Omran ; Maha Malluh ; Maryam Aljomairi ; Mashael Alsaie ; Matylda Krzykowski / CIVIC ; Mo'min Swaitat / Majazz Project – Palestinian Sound Archive ; Mohammad Alfaraj ; Möbius Design Studio ; Muhammad AlOmair ; Noura Al-Sayeh Holtrop ; Nujud AlHussain ; Nzinga Biegueng Mboup ; Ola Saad Znad ; Olorunfemi Adewuyi / OMI Collective – Nigerian Modernism Memory Drive ; Pelin Tan ; Rana Beiruti ; Rosario Talevi ; Sara Almutlaq ; Sarah A. Almutlaq ; Setareh Noorani / Nieuwe Instituut ; Shirley Surya / M+ ; Sophie Mayuko Arni ; Studio Eidola / Denizay Apusoglu et Jonas Kissling ; Studio Ossidiana / Alessandra Covini et Giovanni Bellotti ; Studio Raw Material / Dushyant Bansal et Priyanka Sharma ; Sumayya Vally / Counterspace ; SUSA / Suzan et Sara Ibrahim ; Tarfa Fahad Al Saud ; Uns Kattan / Art Jameel ; Wesam Al Asali ; Zawraq Collective / Noor Al-Mahruqi et Zaima Al-Adawi.
