Nabil Al-Kinani’s curated Open House Festival event.
For the Open House Festival this year we have invited six different individuals and collectives to curate strands of the festival programme. The selected group of Londoners hail from diverse backgrounds within the built environment and their curated festival collections and events will explore various themes and narratives from within their own practice and experiences of architecture and the built environment. These collections and event are their chance to share with others the buildings, places and themes they see as worthy of celebration and exploration.
Nabil Al-Kinani is a British-Iraqi built-environment professional and creative practitioner raised in Wembley, he possesses a keen interest in urbanism, cultural placemaking, sustainable development and spatial politics. His research largely focuses on “spaces” and “stories”. Addressing questions such as: Who designs space? Who has access to newly-created space? What’s the cultural impact of these newly-created spaces? Who are new spaces being built for? Who is affected by newly-created space? What are the narratives that must be preserved when new spaces are being created?
His works include: Authors of the Estate, Privatise the Mandem and Pipe Dreams.
Join Nabil and our panellists for a thought-provoking keynote address followed by a panel discussion exploring the theme of imperial nostalgia in the built environment, using Wembley as a case study. Delve into the history and cultural significance of this piece of London and examine the ways in which it reflects our changing attitudes towards empire and colonialism. This event creates an opportunity to gain insight into one of the most fascinating and controversial topics in modern architecture and design.
