In dialogue with the Disobedience Archive at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, the project investigates archives as active sites for resistance and collective memory rather than neutral repositories. By unsettling traditional narratives, the collaboration seeks to uncover suppressed histories and imagine new, solidary futures through counter-archival work.
As part of the Canopy Sessions, this public iteration of the chair’s Book Club transforms a pedagogical design tool into a collective reading practice held within the Shamiana textile space. Participants are invited to engage with postcolonial studies, feminist theory, and environmental humanities to explore the (im)materiality of knowledge production. Rather than a standard academic summary, the session fosters a dialogue centered on shared vulnerability and storytelling, reimagining the archive as a living site of refusal and communal attention.
Join us next Wednesday, 20 May, 18:00–20:00 at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Limmatstrasse 270, 8005 Zürich; Shamiana Meetingspace (first floor)
Kommen Sie! Kommen Sie! ;)
Wednesday, April 15th at 18h Walkthrough and Apéro of “The Image in Question: Dismantling Architectural Fictions”, an exhibition at ETH Zurich from Mariam Issoufou’s Chair of Architecture Heritage and Sustainability @chair.issoufou , which I had the pleasure of curating.
The event includes the official launch of the book “Dismantling Architectural Fictions”, which was published by the Chair in 2025, and is part of the exhibition.
The exhibition runs until May 13th, 2026 at ETH Hönggerberg, HIL Main Foyer
I look forward to seeing you there! 🫶🏽
We softly open our chair exhibition next Monday, 23 March 2026 at 17:00 for a first guided walkthrough with our curator Adriana Domínguez @yerbita at the HIL Foyer at ETH Hönggerberg.
Feel free to join us to explore the chair's research as well as student projects on display from the past years.
We warmly invite you to our chair exhibition “The Image in Question:
Dismantling Architectural Fictions” soft-launching this March!
Taking the question of how architectural heritage is constructed and valued as its point of departure, the exhibition asks: How can we challenge the structures that have universalised architectural heritage as a single timeline of value and progress? Through acts of unarchiving, dismantling and refusal, it explores alternative ways of producing, inheriting, displaying and teaching architecture.
ETH Hönggerberg, HIL Foyer
Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5, 8049 Zürich
23 March–13 May 2026
Monday–Friday, 07:00–19:00
Walkthrough and Apéro with Prof. Mariam Issoufou @mariamissoufouk
15 April 2026, 18:00
Guided tours available upon request
Curated by Adriana Dominguez @yerbita in collaboration with with Martina Diaz, Nico Canal, Sara Frikech @frkch_ , Rami Msallam, Alexander Cyrus Poulikakos @studiotekkeh and Severin Weber @severinweber_
Graphic Design by Severin Weber @severinweber_
Retour en images sur une première journée inoubliable « Aux frontières de nos langues ». Intitulée «Aux frontières de nos langues», cette 5ème édition marque avant tout un anniversaire important pour foodculture days: celui des dix ans de travail sur le terrain de l’initiative et son évolution vers un événement phare du paysage suisse-romand. La Biennale 2025 s’empare de la thématique des frontières et des limites – tant sociales, géographiques, linguistiques, disciplinaires que planétaires – pour explorer les relations entre nos corps, le langage et l’environnement.
Fidèle à ses valeurs initiales, foodculture days investit à nouveau l’espace urbain de Vevey pour proposer au public de découvrir quelques-unes des nombreuses formes que peut prendre la pratique d’une hospitalité radicale.
Nous avons ainsi le privilège de programmer une quarantaine de projets pluridisciplinaires d’artistes de Suisse et du monde entier- dont 16 créations en avant-première suisse. Chacun à sa manière, ces projets s’engagent dans une pratique de soin envers la terre, les humains, les autres espèces vivantes.
Retrouvez le programme complet sur notre site web et rejoignez-nous à la Cuisine/Lieu Central jusqu’au 5 juin.
Vidéos: Orlane Volckaert + Lena Breitenborn
[𝗘𝗡𝗚𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗛] 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗽 “𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻” 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗼𝘄. 彡
My heart is full 💚 I spent the last two weeks traveling in Central America with the most amazing group of curators and artists. We visited incredible and powerful artists, curators and cultural producers in Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador and Panama. Thank you @mondriaanfonds and @prohelvetia for this opportunity. Y muchas gracias a todos los que nos abrieron las puertas para compartir sus ideas y proyectos e intercambiar con nosotres 💥🫶🏽
2. El Salvador
3. Vivian Suter’s studio
4. Comalapa
5. Abigail Reyes studio
6. Gabriela Novoa at La Fabrica
7. Regina Jose Galindo studio
8. Orientation Trip group 2023
9. Federico Herrero studio