Presentation of Muslim Identities in Contemporary Urban West” uses spatial analysis to investigate how – in a constant process of in/exclusion – changing urban neighborhoods become the locus of representational conflicts, especially where the presence of the other group is concerned. Through their activities and the way they inhabit social space, these immigrant communities express their social agency by challenging and in some instances subverting the official use of social spaces.

Harvard Graduate School of Design - Somayeh Chitchian presents at Northeastern University Thursday, December 5, 2013 @ 11:52am