News & Events
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Books and Bites on Wednesday, November 20
Join us in the Department of Distinctive Collections Reading Room (14N-118) to engage with recent acquisitions and highlights from Distinctive Collections and Rotch Library, including artist books, rare books, and materials from the Aga Khan Documentation Center. Enjoy refreshments while you explore!
New for the Fall Semester
As we start the 2024-2025 academic year, we bring you nearly 5,000 records added since the end of the last academic year: 30 new sites, 21 publications, 73 authority records, and 4,842 media records. The collage to the left includes 7 of the new site records. How many can you identify? For answers, see the following links corresponding to the images, clockwise from the top left: www.archnet.org/sites/21840 www.archnet.org/sites/21841 www.archnet.org/sites/21825 www.archnet.org/sites/21816 www.archnet.org/sites/21815 www.archnet.org/sites/21835
NOTICE: Archnet will be unavailable for several hours on July 10th
Archnet.org will be unavailable starting at 9 am EDT/ 1 pm UTC on July 10 while we migrate over 140,000 media (images, documents, and videos) to an IIIF-capable server so that we can continue making Archnet media available to you via state-of-the-art technology. The process is likely to last 6-8 hours, though it is not possible to start precisely. IIIF stands for “International Image Interoperability Framework,” a standard for hosting, serving, describing, sharing, and viewing images of other visual media that has been widely adopted by libraries, archives, galleries, and museums to further facilitate the sharing of their collections. This...
Registration Closing Soon for “Re:Fest: A Research Festival for The Curious” in Lagos, Nigeria
NAIROBI, 10 June 2024 – CoDesign Collective [till recently operating as Ministry of Architecture] is launching a new initiative, Co-School with its first event titled Re:Fest: A Research Festival for The Curious. In the words of Anthony Baba-Oladeji, Founder of CoDesign Collective, “Africa’s present educational system is unable to grapple with the pace of advancements in her built environment and cities, and as such, ReFest will be a yearly event intervention to complement Africa’s presently underfunded educational operation by filling knowledge gaps such as metadata on cities, research into local materials and new representation techniques & technologies such as film,...
Call for Papers, SAH 2025 ATLANTA: Interaction vs. Isolation. Development of Settlements in the Mediterranean Basin
We would like to call your attention to the CFP for “Interaction vs. Isolation. Development of Settlements in the Mediterranean Basin,” a panel proposed for the 2025 Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians to be held April 30th–May 4th in Atlanta, Georgia. Proposals are due on 5 June, and must be submitted through the conference website. Abstract: The Mediterranean region has been a historical hub of trade and cultural exchange for millennia, and settlements have often been impacted by the circulation of people and goods. This panel considers the degree of connectivity between human habitats has molded both urban...
Kanan Makiya to Lend his Expertise to the CAC Human Library Series Documenting the Lives of Arab Americans
We are delighted to extend an invitation to you for a special event organized by the Center for Arabic Culture (CAC) and hosted by the Aga Khan Documentation Center, MIT Libraries (AKDC@MIT): the Human Library with Professor Kanan Makiya. Sat. Feb. 10, 2024, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm MIT Room 3-133, Entrance at 77 Mass Ave. Cambridge, MA. At the Human Library, we aim to bring together community members to share their life stories and experiences. We refer to this series as the Human Library that allows for people to learn from the experiences of people in much the same way...
Added to Archnet in 2023!
Over 3,580 new records were published to Archnet between January 1st and December 31st, 2023. Notable new collections include selections from the Balkan Archive of Judith Bing and J. Brooke Harrington, as well as material from the Middle East Garden Traditions project of Dumbarton Oaks. Both sets of material can be found in the Projects rubric of Archnet Collections as both collections will continue to be expanded and developed over time. New records have been published for dozens of architects, designers, historical figures, and cities. Newly available site records include entries on some of the earliest Islamic gardens in what...
MOST POPULAR ARCHNET RESOURCES THIS SUMMER
This month many students around the world will be going back to class after the break at the end of the academic year. The months of June through August are an interesting time on Archnet because far fewer users are visiting Archnet in the context of a class assignment. Researchers visit in the context of their work, but many users visit the site just to explore new things. Because of this, excepting the top two pages which are always the home page and the search, the statistics for the summer are often atypical. So, what were the most visited Archnet...
May 7 AFIKRA Salon at MIT to feature Aga Khan Collections Curator
Aga Khan Collections Curator Rami Alafandi will be presenting on the work of the Aga Khan Documentation Center and the Aga Khan Development Network in Vol. 6 of the afikra Boston salon on Sunday, May 7, at 6 pm in Room 3-133 on the MIT Campus. AFIKRA salons are in-person events held in cities worldwide that bring people together to learn about the histories and cultures of the Arab world. The salon is free and open to the public; registration is required.
Digital Interfaces Workshops on Documenting West African Heritage Held at MIT
The A3-Archnet Digital Interfaces Workshop week, hosted by the Aga Khan Documentation Center @ MIT, was held on 27 February – 3 March 2023 in the MIT Libraries. The Nigerian delegation was led by A3 founder Baba Oladeji and consisted of three winners of the A3-Archnet Writing Competition, Adefola Toye, Muhammed Madandola, Abdullah Ogunsetan. The Nigerian delegation received an orientation tour from Matt Saba, Interim Program Head and Michael Toler, Archnet Content Manager in the Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT (AKDC@MIT), on Sunday, 26th February 2023. A fourth prize winner, Enwonwu Chiagozie Mitchelle, was unable to participate in...