Lecture by Anoma Pieris [Melbourne School of Design], #1 of the Lecture Series Organizing Architectures: Coloniality
In 2022, the citizens of Colombo (Sri Lanka) took to the streets in a peoples’ sovereignty movement that challenged the government’s vision of neo-liberal progress. The materiality and messaging of their protracted urban occupation read the multilayered accretion of political violence as characterizing the postcolonial city. This lecture discusses how these layers accumulate, and how we might recognise them and parse them apart.
The lecture will be held in English.
26 November 2025
7 – 8:30 p.m.
at Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM)
Schaumainkai 43, 60596 Frankfurt