Chloë Bass is featured in Architecture Otherwise: Building Civic Infrastructure for Collective Futures, Sharjah Architecture Triennial, United Arab Emirates, on view November 14, 2026–April 14, 2027.
The Sharjah Architecture Triennial's press release follows:
The Sharjah Architecture Triennial (SAT) - the first major platform for architecture and urbanism in the Middle East, North and East Africa and Asia - announces the dates and full participant list for its third edition (SAT03), Architecture Otherwise: Building Civic Infrastructure for Collective Futures, opening on 14 November 2026 and running until 14 April 2027.
Curated by anthropologist-curator Vyjayanthi Rao, with Associate Curator Tau Tavengwa, SAT03 brings together 32 participants whose practices span architecture, anthropology, urbanism, art, design, education and community initiatives. Through new installations, films, archives, workshops, performances and lectures, this multi-disciplinary edition explores how architecture can support collective life in a rapidly urbanising and interconnected world.
Activating the city and wider Emirate, the projects will evolve over the duration of Triennial as part of a comprehensive programme that centres conversation and public interactivity.
Expanding architecture beyond questions of buildings and form, Architecture Otherwise foregrounds social, cultural and political infrastructures to examine how communities emerge and grow. Participants will examine migration, displacement, care, food systems, heritage, public space, climate adaptation, mobility, education, spirituality and collective memory, presenting architecture as an evolving practice rooted in people and relationships. Participants will engage with Sharjah’s layered urban fabric, with some projects developed as part of longer-term residencies, grounding the Triennial in local context.
Several projects investigate what it means to build under conditions of movement, uncertainty and transience.
Other installations across the Triennial examine overlooked infrastructures that shape everyday urban experience. Brent Kokonya and Dennis Muraguri's Moving Pluralisms draws on Nairobi's matatu transport system as a mobile architecture of belonging and social encounter. Chloë Bass and Bill Dietz transform public address systems into polyphonic sound installations that amplify multiple voices and forms of shared listening.
