ABOUT

WORKNOT! is focused on critical spatial practice and theory. It works across architecture, art, publishing, and curation. Its work is research-oriented design based on critical thinking, and radical spatial pedagogy. WORKNOT! is founded by Arvand Pourabbasi and Golnar Abbasi.

Arvand Pourabbasi is a spatial practitioner, researcher, and educator. His work focuses on decolonial readings of domesticity, public realm, and spatial pedagogy. He holds a masters degree from the Royal Academy of Art The Hague (KABK) and is a lecturer at Willem de Kooning Academy, and a guest teacher at Master of Architecture Fontys Tilburg and TU Delft Faculty of Architecture.

Golnar Abbasi is an architect-artist, researcher, curator, and publisher. Her work focuses on politics of domesticity, anti-colonial space, practices of resistance, and historical narrative. She holds a masters degree from The Berlage, and is a Ph.D. candidate at Faculty of Architecture and Urban Environment TU Delft. She is a lecturer at Piet Zwart Institute and Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam.