curriculum vitae
rami.msallam1@gmail.com
Rami Msallam
EDUCATION> 2024
Goldsmiths University of London
Department of Visual Cultures
Centre for Research Architecture
MA Research Architecture
Distinction
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> 2022
ETH Zürich
Department of Architecture
BSc Arch ETH-
WORK > 2026 – Present
Lecturer
ETH Zürich, Department of Architecture
Chair of Architecture Heritage and Sustainability
(Professor Mariam Issoufou)
Elective Course “Resitutating Spatial Data & Storytelling in the Map”
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> 2024 – Present
Scientific Assistant
ETH Zürich, Department of Architecture
Chair of Architecture Heritage and Sustainability
(Professor Mariam Issoufou)
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> 2024
Research Assistant (part-time)
Forensic Architecture
Goldsmiths, University of London
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> 2023–2025
Co-Founder and collective member
20 km/h, Zürich
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> 2022–2023
Internship
Building Permits Office
Department for Construction, Transport & Environment BVU
Canton Aargau, Switzerland
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> 2022
Student Assistant
Department of Architecture, ETH Zürich
Chair of History of Art and Architecture (Professor Philip Ursprung)
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> 2021–2022
Student Assistant
Department of Architecture, ETH Zürich
Chair of Digital Building Technologies (Prof. Benjamin Dillenburger)- TALKS/CONFERENCES> 26.06.2026
Festival Belluard Bollwerk International, Fribourg CH
Screening & Discussion
„Voids in Earth“
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> 21.05.2026
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts HSLU, CH
Course: “Creative Writing Workshop” led by Johanna Lier
Invited Lecture
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>30.04.2026
Universität Fribourg, CH
Screening & Discussion
„Voids in Earth“
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> 14.04.2026
MA Transversal Design, HGK Basel, CH
Practice Dialogue & MA Colloquium
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> 12.03.2026
Chair for History of Art and Architecture, ETH Zürich
Prof. Philip Ursprung (Substitute: Dr. Paola de Martin)
Invited Lecture+
> 18–20.02.2026
Unarchiving Architecture, Towards a Critical Practice for Restitution in Building Heritage, ETH Zürich
Symposium and Workshop
Co-organiser and Roundtable Moderator
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> 11–13.02 2026
III International Congress on Colonial and Post-colonial Landscapes: Architecture, Colonialism and Labour, Lisbon, Portugal
Invited Paper
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> 5–7.12.2025
SPATIAL JUSTICE IN THE ERA OF CLIMATE CRISIS
3rd CONFERENCE ON PARTICIPATORY DESIGN,
University of Athens, Greece
Invited Participant
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> 06.10.2025Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Invited Lecture ‘Mapping the Environmental Turn: Climate, Violence, and the Healing of Post-Conflict Geographies’
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> 19–21.09.2025
Ca’Buccari, Venice, Italy
Symposium ‘Unmasking Space: Assembly’
Contribution ‘Sensing Fire Ecologies’
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> 15–18.09.2025
Carleton University, Canada
Conference ‘Cartographies of Loss: The Afterlives of War’
Panel ‘Trees Who Remember‘
Invited Paper ‘Mapping the Environmental Turn: Climate, Violence, and the Healing of Post-Conflict Geographies’
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> 28.05.2025
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
‘Italian Imperial Ecologies‘ organized by Dr. Beatrice Falcucci
Invited Paper ‘Mapping the Life and Afterlives of Colonial Mines in Eritrea: A Forensic and Spatial Approach’
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Kunstraum Aarau, Switzerland
Organizer and Moderator of Panel Discussion
Invited guests: Charles Heller (Border Forensics, University of Bern), Lucia Bernini (ETH Zürich) and Rohit Jain (University of Bern)
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> 03.04.2025
Department of Architecture, ETH Zürich
Elective Course ‘Unmasking Space’
Invited Lecture ‘How to Represent the Unrepresentable? Aesthetic and Operative Methodologies for Mapping the Violence of Material Extractivism’
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> 26.02.2025
Design Studio Prof. Mariam Issoufou, ETH Zürich
Workshop on architectural images and models
‘Operational Images, Operative Models’
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> 20.02.2025
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Switzerland
Invited Panelist “Neutrality and Prosperity”
with Denise Bertschi, Lea Haller and Mascha Madörin
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> 28.09.2024
Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, UK
Symposium “Behind Enemy Lines”
Panel ‘The Requested Document Does Not Exist‘: Colonial Operations in Archives
With invited guests Omar Ferwati (Forensic Architecture) and Agata Nguyen Chuong
Co-moderation and Co-Organisation by Yan Wai Yin, Kevin Howard and Rami Msallam -
EXHIBITIONS> 28.11.–30.11.2025
Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
Against Neutrality!
(Research Archive, Public Program, Group Exhibtion)
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> 11.04.–11.05.2025
Kunstraum Aarau, Switzerland
“Strike [at] the Border”
(Solo Exhibition)
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> 26.09.–03.10.2024
Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Centre for Research Architecture,
Group Exhibition and Co-Curation “Interruptions”
Contribution ‘Voids in Earth‘ (Video Installation)
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> 30.06–01.07.2023
Zentralwäscherei Zürich, Switzeralnd
Group Exhibition and Co-Curation “Zwischen-Wäscherei“
with 20km/h Collective
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> 08.07–29.07 2023
Dynamo Zürich, Switzerland
Group exhibtion “RA(RAUM)UM” curated by lady.and.sirprise
Contribution ‘turicum‘ (interactive audiovisual installation)
with Lewis Beauchamp and Carolin Bodensteiner-
PUBLICATIONSBook Chapters
> Msallam, Rami. "Pedagogies of the (Un)representable." In Unmasking Space: A Handbook for Student Activism, edited by S. Chaudhry, E. Kaufmann LaDuc, G. Rossi, and Q. Zhu. Barcelona: dpr-barcelona, 2025.
> Msallam, Rami. "Navigating the Politics of Knowing." In Dead Ends, edited by P. Gardika, C. Gilman, and K. Howard. London: CRA Press, 2024.
> Msallam, Rami. "Border Violence: The Gold Refinery as Border Technology." In Medical Borders UNDISCIPLINED. Valais: EDHEA, forthcoming.
Interviews
> "Sich der Neutralisierung widersetzen?" Interview by Rohit Jain. In Modell Neutralität, 1st ed., edited by K. Ammann and B. El Adisey, [page range]. Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2025.
Journal Article
> Msallam, Rami. "Dystopie im Provisorium, Utopie im Erinnern." Trans, no. 41 (2022): [page range].
Thesis
> Msallam, Rami. "Extra-Territorialising Violence in the Gold Supply Chain: A Critical Material-Discursive-Legal Perspective." MA diss., Goldsmiths, University of London, 2024
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AWARDS/GRANTS> 2023–2024
Forensic Architecture Scholarship
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> 2023
Project Grant, Sparx Space, Migros-Kulturprozent
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> 2022
Project Grant, Kulturamt Thurgau
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> 2021
Nomination, Solos and Sights, Internationale Bodenseekonferenz
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> 2021
Prize, Stiftung Jugendförderung Thurgau
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> 2019
Prize, Think Tank Thurgau
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PERFORMANCES (selection)> 2023 Finsterbusch Collective, Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Zürich
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> 2023
Varieté Show, Baby Angel, Zürich
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> 2022
Book Vernissage, Zentralwäscherei Zürich
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> 2022
TOUR DE NOUVELLE SUISSE, Kaserne Basel
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> 2022
ZATO.Space, ETH Zürich
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> 2021
Not the same procedure, M2act, Gessnerallee, Zürich
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> 2021
Not the same procedure, Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Zürich