Pelin Tan

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Beirut German Orient Institute - Hans-Robert Roemer Professor Fellowship, Summer 2024, Beirut.
American University of Beirut, Media, Sociology, Anthropology Dept., affiliated prof. summer 2024, Beirut.
Senior Researcher of The Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research (Boston).
Prof. at Fine Arts Academy, Batman University.
Prof.at the Migration Research master program, Batman University.

Researcher of Architecture and Fine Art Faculty, Thessaly University, Volos (2021-2026).
Fellow Bard College Human Rights Prog. & The Center for Curatorial Studies (2019 - 2020, New York).
Fellow Art, Culture and Technology Dept., School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2011, Cambridge).

6th Recipient of Keith Haring Art and Activism 2019—2020.
Lead Author - International Panel of Social Progress - www.ipsp.org, Curatorial Board Member of IBA Stuttgart 2027 - www.iba27.de
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The conference looks at projects of world-making and their particular relationality that emerged ... more The conference looks at projects of world-making and their particular relationality that emerged in the form of extraction, conflict, and destruction, as well as resistance, collective mourning, solidarity, companionship, and alternative forms of kinship in very specific geographies. As opposed to the uniformity of the world, which John Law calls a one-world world, which operates by constructing the other worlds in their own form, Ecologies of Making Worlds is marked by the acknowledgment of heterogeneity. Heterogeneity appears in the ways worlds are made as well as in the modes of their relation. However, the world-making processes and the interrelations of different worlds are not harmonious and peaceful. The geographies and worlds the conference focuses on are the Upper Tigris region in Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey, which Kurds, Yazidis, and Assyrians inhabit. This region spans many worlds and has been subjected to many one-world world projects, such as extractivism, war, occupation, forced displacement, assimilation, or, in a nutshell, colonization. The region is named in multiple ways, and this implies that the region comprises many worlds that have been subjected to many one-world world projects, like, for example, extractivism, war, occupation, forced displacement, assimilation, or, in a nutshell, colonization. Arazi is an assembly initiated by researchers with diverse backgrounds: artists, academics, and architects. Despite the meaning of the term arazi (territory), which in Turkish refers to an empty space, a space that has lost its status of having significance, the assembly's practice reattributes agency to the particular arazi(s) to reveal and inquire about the coloniality inscribed in them. The colonization process in the region and, thus, Arazi's matter of concern, include forced displacement, privatization, extraction, and many forms of war, as well as the consequences of the very process of colonization that range from social and ecological destruction and extinction to forms of world-making practices in the regions. The assembly's research looks at diverse forms of human infrastructures, such as water dams, and abandoned land that make colonial projects possible, as well as alternative ways of world-making, such as collective kitchens, urban gardening, and other forms of infrastructure that are constituted by multiple social relations.

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