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Project, New World Summit - Rojava

This is a Project. It was designed by Democratic Self-Administration of Rojava (West Kurdistan) and Studio Jonas Staal. It is dated 2014-2018. It is a part of the department.


Dêrik, Canton Cizîrê, Rojava

New World Summit – Rojava consists of the design and construction of a new public parliament for the stateless government of Rojava in northern Syria—an alliance of Kurdish revolutionaries, Assyrians, and Arabs—and served as the location for an international summit that aimed to confront common crises through power and resource sharing with a diversity of peoples. Described by one of its revolutionary leaders as the "People’s Parliament of Rojava," the circular, open public forum embodies this new democracy’s foundational value of collective self-representation, not a separate space for elite representatives but one for all to gather, to imagine new worlds and bring them to life.

It is credited Installation: Courtesy of Sammlung Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich.

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Designing Peace.

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