Il diritto al divenire. Architettura, autonomia e pratiche di decolonizzazione. Conversazione con DAAR - Sandi Hilal e Alessandro Petti = The Right to Become. Architecture, Autonomy, and Decolonial Practices. Conversation with DAAR – Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti

This interview with DAAR – Decolonizing Architecture Art Research, founded by Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti – explores their critical engagement with the intersections of architecture, pedagogy, and decolonial practices. Since its inception in Palestine in 2007, DAAR has developed projects that propose forms of collective autonomy and spatial self-governance. Their work challenges the disciplinary role of architecture, moving beyond fixed categories such as public/private or formal/informal, and redefines space as a transformative process shaped through conflict, cohabitation, and imagination. The conversation, in particular, highlights DAAR’s understanding of refugee camps not as temporary exceptions but as epistemic and political horizons from which to rethink architecture and urbanism. Hilal and Petti reflect on the role of architecture as a relational and collective practice, capable of generating new vocabularies, pedagogies, and forms of autonomy. The discussion also turns to the project "Ente di Decolonizzazione – Borgo Rizza", where a fascist colonial settlement in Sicily is reactivated as a site of collective remediation and counter-memory. Rather than producing static representations, DAAR conceives architecture as an ongoing process that redistributes authorship and enables new forms of political and pedagogical agency. What emerges is a vision of architecture as a transformative practice: neither an object nor a monument, but a field of negotiation where spaces of autonomy and plural futures can be co-created.