Karachi LaJamia was founded in 2015 by artists Shahana Rajani and Zahra Malkani as a nomadic space moving outside the institution to collectively explore new radical pedagogies and art practices. Since 2015 we have facilitated a series of site-specific courses and collaborative research projects to explore the intersections of militarism, land accumulation, climate crisis, indigenous dispossession, and knowledge production in Karachi. Our courses occupy public spaces in the city as sites of study, disrupting imperial modes of knowledge production and circulation. We work closely with local organisations and activists to build solidarity with ongoing struggles in the city. We seek to learn, share and produce knowledge collectively while exploring new ways of inhabiting, knowing and being with the city, and being with each other.
Karachi LaJamia
Pakistan
Ecstatic Ecopedagogies
Ecstatic Ecopedagogies offers a reading, listening, reflecting and gathering space with several text, image and audio offerings drawing from Karachi LaJamia’s research and pedagogical practice over the past decade. A video offers glimpses into the years of fieldwork in Karachi’s coastal and pastoral landscapes, alongside communities resisting real estate development and infrastrucutural projects. A series of publications are offered as case-studies into the practice, divided along the themes of land, water, militarism and institutions. A soundscape offers visitors moments of immersion into the encounters and experiences that have soundtracked Karachi LaJamia’s site-specific pedagogy.