Ola Hassanain

Ola Hassanain (b.1985) works between Amsterdam and Khartoum, focusing on developing spatial literacy through the idea of “space as discourse,” an expanded notion of space that encompasses a scavenging mode of analysis. Through artistic research, Ola uses derivatives of the built form for the sites and  environments that she analyzes. She believes anthologizing her analyses, responding to the politics of space—namely, how architecture positions “building” as an ecological “emptying” of territories and as an infrastructure for continuous cycles of “catastrophe.”