curriculum vitae
rami.msallam1@gmail.com
Rami Msallam
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
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WORK
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 (6 months)
Forensic Architecture
Goldsmiths, University of London
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2023–Present
Co-Founder and active member
20 km/h, Zürich
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2022–2023
Internship (6 months)
Building Permits Office AFB
Department for Construction, Transport & Environment BVU
Canton Aargau, Switzerland
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2022 + 2023
Tutor
Department of Architecture, ETH Zürich,
Prestudy Event
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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)
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2021–2023
Booking, Programming and Production (freelance)
Fête de la Musique de Zurich
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EXHIBITIONS
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
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TALKS/CONFERENCES
19–21.09.2025
Ca’Buccari, Venice, Italy
Symposium ‘Unmasking Space: Assembly’
Contribution ‘Sensing Fire’
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15–18.09.2025
Carleton University, Canada
Conference ‘Cartographies of Loss: The Afterlives of War’
Panel ‘Trees Who Remember‘
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
Workshop ‘Italian Imperial Ecologies‘ organized by Dr. Beatrice Falcucci
Contribution ‘Mapping the Life and Afterlives of Colonial Mines in Eritrea: A Forensic and Spatial Approach’
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11.04.2025
Kunstraum Aarau, Switzerland
Panel discussion organized and moderated by Rami Msallam
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’
Lecture and workshop ‘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
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
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PUBLICATIONS
Ammann, K. and El Adisey, B. (eds) (2025) ‘Sich der Neutralisierung widersetzen? (Rohit Jain im Gespräch mit Rami Msallam)’, in Modell Neutralität. 1. Auflage: Scheidegger & Spiess.
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Gardika, P., Gilman, C. and Howard, K. (eds) (2024) ‘Navigating The Politics of Knowing’, in Dead Ends. London: CRA Press.
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Msallam, R. (2024) Extra-Territorialising Violence in the Gold Supply Chain: A Critical Material-Discursive-Legal Perspective. Goldsmiths, University of London.
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Baumann, S. et al. (eds) (2022) ‘Dystopie im Provisorium, Utopie im Erinnern’, in Fire. Zürich: gta Verlag (Trans, 41).
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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