Emilio Distretti
Emilio Distretti is a researcher and an educator, living between London and Basel (Switzerland). Previously, he was research fellow at the Kenyon Institute (Council for British Research in the Levant) in East Jerusalem and the Director of the Urban Studies and Spatial Practices program at Al Quds Bard College for Arts and Sciences (AQB), in Abu Dis in Palestine. Emilio’s research and writings take on interrelated avenues on the critical and decolonial re-use of colonial and fascist architectural heritage in the Mediterranean (Italy, North Africa and the Levant) and in the Horn of Africa.