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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.

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.

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

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.

Inscribing the urban in technical objects (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Shayya, F. (2018, May). Inscribing the urban in technical objects. Presented at School of Environment, Education and Development PGR Conference, University of Manchester

How does military vehicular technology capture urban space? What kinds of associations hold armored vehicles, soldiers, and the urban together? And, how are the concerns of the military mediated through technology? This short talk attempts to answer... Read More about Inscribing the urban in technical objects.

This is the age of the architectural, not architecture (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Shayya, F. (2017, June). This is the age of the architectural, not architecture. Presented at Doing Architectural Research: Socio-political Perspectives on Theories, Methodologies & Praxis, Cambridge, United Kingdom

This is the age of the architectural, not architecture. The architectural is a praxis for making the social by covering and uncovering black boxes of flows and intensities. Architecture is ideology! The architectural in “architectural research” is no... Read More about This is the age of the architectural, not architecture.

What can an MRAP do? (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Shayya, F. (2017, June). What can an MRAP do?. Poster presented at Doing Architectural Research: Socio-political Perspectives on Theories, Methodologies & Praxis, Cambridge, United Kingdom

My research traces the U.S. military’s interest in and definition of “the urban” in terms of survivability (of soldiers, force, and system of systems) from military action and natural phenomena. I follow MRAP (Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected) vehicle... Read More about What can an MRAP do?.

The becoming-military of technology & the becoming-urban of the military: MRAP sociotechnical relations (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Shayya, F. (2017, May). The becoming-military of technology & the becoming-urban of the military: MRAP sociotechnical relations. Poster presented at 4th Annual SEED PGR Conference, Manchester, United Kingdom

The first aim is investigating connections between how military sociotechnical inscriptions serve as actualizations of military strategy in/through urban contexts. And, the second aim is exploring the extent of the demilitarization gap within the tra... Read More about The becoming-military of technology & the becoming-urban of the military: MRAP sociotechnical relations.

Strangely familiar! Or, what the smell of grease revealed about my curious self (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Shayya, F. (2017, April). Strangely familiar! Or, what the smell of grease revealed about my curious self. Presented at PhD By Design Conference, Sheffield, United Kingdom

It’s a windy, cold February Saturday at The Imperial War Museum in Manchester. I stand next to a 1979 Leopard patrol vehicle and a WWII T34 tank when a strong, thick, nauseating smell takes me 23 years back to a boyish childhood memory. I recall clim... Read More about Strangely familiar! Or, what the smell of grease revealed about my curious self.

Geographies of delegation, militarization and urbanism in the U.S. (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Shayya, F. (2016, March). Geographies of delegation, militarization and urbanism in the U.S. Presented at The American Association of Geographers 2016 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, United States

With the U.S. recalling about 27,000 MRAP vehicles (Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected) from the military Theater of Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, news circulated about the domestic redeployment of 13,000 MRAPs to different local police and securi... Read More about Geographies of delegation, militarization and urbanism in the U.S..