Nezar Alkujok, "Where Should the Birds Fly After the Last Sky?"
After the Last Sky, an ode to Mahmoud Darwish's questions on exile, proposes a mobile archival infrastructure, a vessel that floats in air and on water in response to the forces that disrupt Palestinian movement. Conceived as a modular repository, it carries displaced cultural artifacts from architectural fragments to domestic furnishings.
Each is housed in a crate that unfolds to construct a temporary site of gathering, a Sufra, where Palestinian culture is enacted through live ritual across diasporic geographies. While fleeting, these gatherings and their objects initiate a rehearsal of Awdah, the symbolic return, and until that return is possible, the archive must continue to move.
Program: Master of Architecture
Advisor: Miles Gertler