Ali T. As’ad Ali T. As’ad
Ali T. As’ad is a researcher, architect, and editor based in Amsterdam. Across research, architecture, curating, publishing, and pedagogy, his multi-disciplinary work approaches architecture as a cultural and political practice extending beyond physical construct, and curating as a form of spatial inquiry and infrastructural negotiation.
Ali is Editor-in-Chief of MAKAN: Journal of Culture & Space, a trilingual print journal critically engaging contemporary architecture, urban conditions, and artistic research across the SWANA region. He is also a co-founder of the Spatial Justice for Palestine Network NL, a Netherlands-based collective of architects, researchers, and educators advancing critical spatial knowledge on Palestine through research, pedagogy, and public programming in the Netherlands.
Ali is also a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), University of Amsterdam, where his research examines exhibition-making and museum practices in Palestine, with particular attention to how curatorial and exhibitionary practices operate under conditions of colonial fragmentation and contested sovereignty.