Positions - Emily Mei-Mei Rose - Fragmentary Interventions: A Call for Architectures of Repair

Fragmentary Interventions: A Call for Architectures of Repair

Emily Mei-Mei Rose

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Cave_bureau, Owen Hopkins, and Kathryn Yusoff, Earth Compass, 2025. Installation view, GBR - Geology of Britannic Repair, British Pavilion, 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, 2025. Photo: Marco Zorzanello. Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia.
Positions
November 2025










Notes
1

Achille Mbembe, “On Diminishment, I: Architecture and the Shelter-Rubble-Dust Continuum,” Insurgent Geologies (e-flux Architecture, 2025), .

2

Saidiya Hartman, “Venus in Two Acts,” Small Axe 12, no. 2 (June 2008) 1–14.

3

Carlo Ratti, “Introduction,” La Biennale di Venezia, .

4

Over 90 percent of Palestinian homes in Gaza have been destroyed or damaged by Israeli attacks since 2023. “Reported Impact Snapshot | Gaza Strip (6 August 2025),” United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied Palestinian Territory.

5

“Rift Room” British Council, .

6

Amy Peacock, “British Pavilion Cloaked in Veil of Clay at Venice Architecture Biennale,” Dezeen, May 7, 2025, .

7

“GBR – Geology of Britannic Repair Opens at La Biennale Di Venezia,” British Council (press release), .

8

“GBR – Geology of Britannic Repair Opens at La Biennale Di Venezia.”

9

Amy Peacock, “‘Architectural Profession Letting Gaza down’ Says Palestine Regeneration Team,” Dezeen, June 9, 2025, .

10

British Council Arts (@britisharts), “Exploring The British Pavilion: Objects of Repair,” series of three Instagram photos, May 18, 2025, .

11

Iain Akerman, “Architects at Venice Biennale Challenge Israel’s Culture of Erasure,” Al Majalla, July 12, 2025, .

12

Achille Mbembe - On Diminishment, I.”

13

Peacock, “‘Architectural Profession Letting Gaza down’.”

14

Kathryn Yussof et al., “Editorial,” Insurgent Geologies - e-flux Architecture and the British Pavillion, May 2025, .

15

Akerman, “Architects at Venice Biennale Challenge Israel’s Culture of Erasure.”







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