Ola Hassanain

artist, architect, and researcher

Ola Hassanain works between Amsterdam and Khartoum, focusing on developing spatial literacy through the idea of “space as discourse,” an expanded notion of space that encompasses a scavenging mode of analysis.

Through artistic research, Hassanain uses derivatives of the built form for the sites and environments that she analyzes. She believes that in anthologizing her analyses she responds to the politics of space—namely, how architecture positions “building” as an ecological “emptying” of territories and as an infrastructure for continuous cycles of “catastrophe.” Hassanain was 2017/2018 BAK Fellow.