Outputs (22)

"Intimate Legacies" Workshop (2023)
Digital Artefact
Shayya, F. (2023). "Intimate Legacies" Workshop. [https://www.lse.ac.uk/middleeastcentre/research/collaboration-programme/2020-21/deen-sharp]

Intimate Legacies is a workshop that invited students to utilize concepts drawn from Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to trace how actors maintained/modified their social entanglements in the context of the October 2019 protests. Protest is often ideali... Read More about "Intimate Legacies" Workshop.

The fuzzier frontiers of technology (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Shayya, F. (2023, February). The fuzzier frontiers of technology. Presented at YEFL Webinar “Smart Sustainable Communities and Frontier Technologies” celebrating World Engineering Day 2023, Online

This contribution argues for grounding Frontier Technologies (FTs) as sociotechnical associations. It highlights the techno- and anthropo-centric faith in FTs and challenges the notion of FTs as technological prescriptions. It offers an alternative a... Read More about The fuzzier frontiers of technology.

War testimonies: 40 Years after the Battle of Ain Zhalta (2022)
Journal Article
Shayya, F. (2022). War testimonies: 40 Years after the Battle of Ain Zhalta

Lebanon (Still) Unsettled (2022)
Journal Article
Sharp, D., Farhat, M., Shayya, F., Bassil, M., & El-Samrani, M. (2022). Lebanon (Still) Unsettled

Mobile Architectures (2022)
Digital Artefact
Shayya, F. Mobile Architectures

Thinking about mobility and designing its vehicles demonstrates not only the design acumen of an architect, which could extend to various domains of design thinking, it is a lens into an architect’s broader scope for understanding and realizing space... Read More about Mobile Architectures.

'First, we leave to the mountains': 40 Years after the Siege of Beirut (2022)
Journal Article
Shayya, F. (2022). 'First, we leave to the mountains': 40 Years after the Siege of Beirut

On cloud studies (2021)
Journal Article
Shayya, F., & Walker, S. (2021). On cloud studies. arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, 25(3), 204-211. https://doi.org/10.1017/s135913552200001x

Suspend your disbelief for a second, and ask yourself: what is architectural about clouds? For many researchers, practitioners and students of the field, a concern with the architectural is a concern with stable forms, organised layouts, inert materi... Read More about On cloud studies.

Re-ecologizing Gaza (2020)
Book Chapter
Shayya, F. (2020). Re-ecologizing Gaza. In Terreform (Ed.), Open Gaza (142-157). New York: Urban Research

Gaza is one of the most beleaguered environments on earth. Crammed into a space of 139 square miles (360 square kilometers), 1.8 million people live under siege. This volume brings together designers, environmentalists, planners, activists, and schol... Read More about Re-ecologizing Gaza.

The military script: mapping urban landscapes (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Shayya, F. (2019, September). The military script: mapping urban landscapes. Presented at AsSIST-UK 2019 - Science, Technology and Innovation Studies: Critical Inquiries in Theory and Practice, Alliance Business School, University of Manchester, Manchester, England

What brings together a military vehicle (like the MRAP), the streets of Iraq, and U.S. highways, in addition to the discernible violence of warfare? How can military technology travel in peacetime in urban spaces? How is the dialogue of STS and urban... Read More about The military script: mapping urban landscapes.

On the visual aesthetics of lethal weapons (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Shayya, F. (2018, May). On the visual aesthetics of lethal weapons. Presented at Pictures of War: The Still Image in Conflict since 1945, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, England

We look at them with an odd sense of sympathy. Forensic traces of violence nudge our feelings, but their objectfullness (after Latour) keeps us distant from any empathetic connection. Essential as they may be to the social construction of war, they o... Read More about On the visual aesthetics of lethal weapons.