Migrations affiliates

Min Kyung Lee

Min Kyung Lee is associate professor and chair of the department of the Growth and Structure of Cities at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. She is the founder of the ‘Architecture and Migration’ group of the EAHN (European Architectural History Network) which focuses on the ways in which migration diaspora and movement has always been central to the built environment and its histories. She has previously worked on histories and theories of architectural and urban representations. Her current research focuses on Korean migrations during the Cold War, situating affective feminist practices in building diasporic communities.

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Shahed Saleem

Shahed Saleem explores questions of migration, identity, heritage and narrative in his architectural practice, curatorial projects, teaching and research. He teaches a design studio and history and theory at the University of Westminster where he is a Reader in the School of Architecture and Cities. Through his work with the Survey of London he has developed an expertise in heritage, public history and public engagement. He is the author of The British Mosque: An architectural and social history (2018) along with numerous articles and book chapters. Through his architectural practice Shahed Saleem has been nominated for the Victoria and Albert Museum Jameel Prize 2013, the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2016, and he has won commendations in the RIBA President’s Medal for Research, shortlisted for the SAHGB Colvin Prize 2019, and the Historic England Angel Award for excellence in heritage research, 2018. He co-curated the V&A Pavilion at the 2021 Venice Biennale on the theme of the British Mosque and his public installation the Ramadan Pavilion was installed at the V&A South Kensington in 2023.
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Osman Yousefzada

Osman Yousefzada is a British artist and writer, born in Birmingham UK, whose work engages with the representation, rupture and reimagining of the immigrant experience. His work incorporates textiles, print-making, installations, sculpture and performance. Yousefzada’s practice has been described as “defiant”, where the participating bodies throughout his work are presented as part objects that refuse to identify or conform. Recent solo shows include; ‘Queer Feet’ (2024) at Charleston, ‘Embodiments of Memory’ (2024) at the the Ceramics Biennale, Potteries Museum in Stoke on Trent and ‘More Immigrants Please’ a nationwide series of billboards with Artichoke. His large-scale series of solo interventions ‘What Is Seen and What Is Not’ at London’s V&A in 2022, was commissioned by the British Council in partnership with the V&A. In April 2024 he presented a major solo show in conjunction with the 60th Venice Biennale at the Palazzo Franchetti. In May 2024 he opened the prelude to Bradford City of Culture 2025 with a solo show at Cartwright Hall. He is a visiting Professor of Interdisciplinary Practice at the Birmingham School of Art, BCU, a visiting Fellow at the Jesus College, Cambridge University and a Research Practitioner at the Royal College of Art. Yousefzada is also the author of The Go-Between: A Memoir of Growing Up Between Different Worlds (2022), a coming-of-age story described by Stephen Fry as ‘one of the greatest childhood memoirs of our time’.

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