Platon Issaias, Head of MPhil Projective Cities and AA Unit Master, together with Beth Hughes, will present the findings of the interdisciplinary project Leros: Island of Exile at the University of Basel on 4 October. The project investigates the history of Leros, Greece as a place of displacement, detention, and control. Over the course of this day-long workshop, participants from a range of disciplines analysed and theorised the manifold legacies of fascism and colonialism that endure in the myriad of crises that now reverberate across the Mediterranean region in the present. As a particular form of political and social logic which circulates within and contours contemporary debates, policies, and state projects, the workshop both diagrammed Mediterranean Fascism(s), but also located the resistant practice that suggests the possibility of something otherwise being put into motion. Specifically the workshop explored what the place of art, architecture and material heritage is in shaping and inspiring practices of resistance, of processes and of de-fascistization.

Participants: Heba Amin, Ida Danewid, Emilio Distretti, Beth Hughes, Platon Issaias, Emily Jacir, Leopold Lambert, Ian Alan Paul and Alessandro Petti.

Mediterranean Fascism(s), a collaborative workshop. Urban Studies, Department of Social Sciences, University of Basel. Friday, October 4, 2019, 9am to 5pm at University of Basel, Regenzzimmer 111, Kollegienhaus. For more information visit the University of Basel website