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ABOUT
   
By day, Nabil Al-Kinani is a built-environment professional with a keen interest in urbanism, placemaking, sustainable development and place vision.

By night, he is a cultural producer that uses creative practice to deliver changemaking projects that draw focus on the relationship between spaces and stories.

Other strands of his work includes the exploration of spatial politics, identity, culture and migration. 

His areas of expertise lie in people and places — exploring questions such as:

Who designs space? Who has access to newly-created space? What’s the cultural impact of these newly-created spaces? Who are new spaces being built for? Who is affected by newly-created space? What are the narratives that must be preserved when new spaces are being created?

Talks, Reports, Workshops & Lectures

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DECOLONISING WEMBLEY

Producer, Researcher, Writer

The mission of this work is to address the imperial nostalgia among urban professionals involved in the construction of Wembley. This involves the retroactive renaming of streets and buildings that commemorate the 1924 British Empire Exhibition.

(work in progress...)

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OCT 2019 - TBC



CASTLES

Curator, Photographer, Writer

A visual photo-essay intended on showcasing the majesty of inner-city social housing estates across the city. Providing commentary on perceived beauty, whilst touching on Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of value & taste.

(work in progress...)

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JUN 2022 - TBC



PRIVATISE THE MANDEM
Author

These past few decades have seen the UK's cityscapes changing at an increasingly rapid rate. Where the "ends" are  replaced with shiny buildings, complete with futuristic living facilities, logos and colour palettes that market a glamorous “inner-city living” lifestyle — all at the expense of the mandem.

So, how do we preserve the ends? The answer: we privatise the mandem.

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APR 2020 - ∞



PIPE DREAMS
Producer, Researcher, Writer

A project that explores Park Royal in west London — a cultural hub for London’s Arab diaspora. Output was a 60-page zine containing interviews, photography and graphic illustrations.

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MAY - JUL 2021


AUTHORS OF THE ESTATE:
WRITTEN BY CHALKHILL ESTATE
Executive Producer, Author

A project that explores the question “how do you turn council houses into publishing houses?”. The end result was a 200-page book, written, published and distributed by the Chalkhill Estate, in north west London.

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MAY - OCT 2019