Floating Schools with Ameneh Solati

Andrea and Arif speak to Overexposed resident Ameneh Solati about how the floating schools in the marshlands of Iraq represent overlapping environmental and ethnic struggles.

See the photograph that Ameneh sent here:

Sonic Acts hosts six participants in the home-based residency programme 'Overexposed' which deals with pollution and its effects on everything living and non-living.

Andrea Gonzalez and Arif Kornweitz of Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee produce this series of conversations with residents about artefacts that have moved their practice in a lasting way.

Ameneh Solati is a Rotterdam-based architectural designer, researcher, and editor. Her practice engages with interdisciplinary methods in exploring forms of resistance within often overlooked spaces. She completed her MA degree in architecture in 2017 at the Royal College of Art in London. She is an editor and organiser at Failed Architecture and has previously worked with Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam and various architectural practices in Amsterdam and London.