Uppland panel discussion

Killian Doherty is an architect with an interest in post-conflict/disaster built environments. Through his practice and research he explores how “development,” as regeneration, (re)produces unevenness in cities across the Global North and South. With experience in social and affordable housing through practice in Ireland, Killian has also worked with ex-black panther, Malik Rahim, in the Lower ninth ward of New Orleans following hurricane Katrina in 2007, on a number of housing, social and environmental restoration projects. Since then his work has been situated in the post-war reconstruction contexts of Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Liberia. In 2014 he was awarded the Frederick Bonnart Scholarship to undertake his PhD by Design at the University College London, Bartlett School of Architecture. He is currently assistant professor/lecturer in Architecture and Urbanism at Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA).

Edward Lawrenson is a Scottish filmmaker and writer based in London. His films have played at a number of festivals, including Sundance, BFI London Film Festival, True/False, Open City; and cinemas, including the Museum of the Moving Image in New York and London’s ICA. He has also made radio documentaries for BBC Radio 4. Lawrenson’s 2014 documentary Abandoned Goods (codirected with Pia Borg) won the Golden Leopard for Best International Short at the Locarno Film Festival and he was named as one of Filmmaker Magazine‘s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2015. He is a Senior Lecturer in Filmmaking at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University.

Sumayya Vally is the founder and Principal of Counterspace. Her design, research, and pedagogical practice is committed to finding expression for hybrid identity and contested territory. She is obsessed with Johannesburg as a laboratory for finding speculative histories, futures archaeologies, and design languages; often with the intent to reveal the invisible. Her work is often forensic, and draws on performance, the supernatural, the wayward, and the overlooked as generative places of history and work. She is presently based between Johannesburg and London as the lead designer for the Serpentine Pavilion 2020/20 Plus 1.

Danny Hoffman is the Bartley-Dobb Professor for the Study and Prevention of Violence, and Chair of the African Studies Program in the University of Washington’s Jackson School for International Studies. Trained as a photojournalist and an anthropologist, Hoffman is the author of two books on the Mano River region of West Africa: The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia, and Monrovia Modern: Urban Form and Political Imagination in Liberia.