Permanent Transience

Jumanah Bawazir (Year: 4)

An Architectural tool for the communication of narratives on hold European surveillance systems have prolonged the limbo periods between fleeing a country, and resettlement. As a consequence, the “holding place” has transformed to contain lost and untold narratives that need to be nurtured, explored, then exposed. “In the context of Somali women on their journeys to Europe, how do we create a process deployed in these transient moments, that builds a tool that communicates their narratives?” Through conducting interviews, virtually reconstruction, and using poetry together with the interviewees, the project functions as a holding to account to governments operating under the European surveillance systems. what is a permanent transient space? a soul in limbo a soul, balancing on the line of time with strings attached to what was what is and what will be it holds interwoven stories creating a tapestry of a trapped identity this proposal is a holding to account to: - the systemic structures using officers as their pawns, for 3.5 million victims worldwide -the walls that define a space, and muffle the choir of lost voices a plea for change a plea to collapse the vessel of the non-place where “no place is our space”