Emilio Distretti is a Research Tutor at the RCA – School of Architecture, London. He engages with critical research methodologies and pedagogy, centered around the entanglements between repair, reparations and decolonization in the Mediterranean basin and in the Horn of Africa. In his writings and collaborations, Emilio deploys and narrates the public dimension of architecture as a space and a tool for repair from colonialism and its racialized, social and economic aftermaths, a space for critical knowledge production around preservation. His work features in journals, books and magazines; among those Cabinet, e-flux, the Journal of Architecture, and Future Anterior and Antipode: a Journal of Radical Geography. Emilio collaborates with the art collective DAAR - Decolonizing Architecture Art Research and with RIWAQ - Centre for Architectural Conservation in Palestine. He lived in Palestine, where he was the Director of the Urban Studies and Spatial Practices program at Al Quds Bard College for Arts and Sciences in Abu Dis, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kenyon Institute in East Jerusalem.
Emilio Distretti
