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zhū qiàner / 朱茜儿



(collectives)
soft resistance collective
unmasking space
sekundos
parity group


(designs)
making home in
dis-place-m∙e∙a∙n∙t
insurgent domesticity
re-densify
future after future
becoming pluriversity
zurich maaghalle
amphitheater of pula
bamboo teahouse
tiltil garden


photography


about me

Women’s everyday struggles, mostly quiet and unrecognized, are indeed political acts.






2023    Cox’s Bazar    research and design project
supervisor     Prof. Fuad Mallick    Harvard GSD
 

Rohingya women and girls are among the most affected victims of the genocide in Myanmar. The majority of them have experienced different forms of sexual and gender-based violence. This project reflects on the perspective of humanitarian agencies that treat women as passive aid recipients and reinforce women’s subordination in the long term. It aims to recognize women’s homemaking labour as “humanitarian expertise centred on domesticity in emergency”. Therefore, it proposes a decentralized, bottom-up “semi-domestic collective space” for women to join forces and practice their insurgent domesticities. Echoing the theme of the “Changing Room Exhibition”, it states that women’s everyday struggles, mostly quiet and unrecognized, are indeed political acts.


Studio Publication: The Rohingya Camps; Permanence in Transition

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