Feda Wardak

Feda Wardak is an architect and artist based in Paris. His work explores forms of collective organisation developed outside public institutions. For several years, he has conducted research in the Jeghatu district of Afghanistan, where he collaborates with local craftspeople whose knowledge and practices are being weakened by imperialist and capitalist dynamics. Together, they imagine spaces of political and cultural self-determination grounded in the transmission of these forms of knowledge. In France, he investigates the effects of urban renewal projects on specific territories and the often invisible forms of violence they produce for local inhabitants. His projects highlight the social and ethno-racial inequalities linked to urban transformation. His work has been presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale, MAC VAL in Vitry-sur-Seine, Ateliers Médicis in Clichy-sous-Bois, the Dhaka Art Summit, La Condition Publique in Roubaix, the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the Lagos Biennial, Centre d’art Les Églises in Chelles, La Contemporaine – Triennale de Nîmes, and the Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art.