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Danna Masad is an architect and doctoral researcher at Tampere University, working as part of the project Dwelling with Crisis: Home at Spaces of Chronic Violence (HOMCRI). Her past experience includes architectural practice and the co-founding of an architectural design firm ShamsArd Design Studio in Ramallah, where she worked as principal architect. Danna also has several years of teaching architecture and design at Birzeit University, and has served on the board of Khalil Al-Sakakini Cultural Center, Birzeit University’s Institute for Women’s Studies, Sharaka: Community supported agriculture, and Sakiya: Art, Science, and Agriculture.
At Tampere University, her research examines herding as a practice of home-making and un-making in the occupied West Bank, bridging political geography, political ecology, landscape studies, Indigenous studies, and settler-colonial studies. Danna is also a member of the Palestine Research Group, the Geographies of Coloniality and Everyday Violence Group (GoCEP), and the Space and Political Agency Research Group (SPARG) at Tampere University.
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Masad, D. & Dajani, M. (2024) “ʼinjaṣa Cisterns as Vessels of Knowledge: How Palestinian Traditional Building Knowledge Endures” in Arab Modern: Architecture and the Project of Independence, edited by Nadi Abusaada and Wesam Al Asali. Zurich: gta Verlag,
Dader, K., Ghantous, W., Masad, D., Joronen, M., Kallio, K. P., Riding, J., & Vainikka, J. (2024). Topologies of scholasticide in Gaza: education in spaces of elimination. Fennia - International Journal of Geography, 202(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.11143/fennia.147002