The Deferred City: Accumulation as a Temporal Structure
What if accumulation is not what a city leaves behind, but what it holds for the future? Looking at unfinished buildings, exposed steel, empty rooms, and vacant land across Amman, this session combines a talk, discussion, and participatory exercise to explore how time, memory, and possibility are embedded within the city.
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