Sharjah Architecture Triennial Announces Participants for Third Edition
3July 2, 2026
TheSharjah Architecture Triennial, a major arts platform dedicated to advancing architecture and urbanism in the Middle East, North and East Africa and Asia, hasannouncedthe opening dates and full list of participating artists for its third edition, titledArchitecture Otherwise: Building Civic Infrastructure for Collective Futures.The triennial, which will be staged at various sites around the city and surrounding Emirate of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, will open on November 14th, 2026 and run until April 14th of 2027.
32 participants in total working across varied media will be included in the 5 month event. The Chinese-AmericanPeople’s Architecture Office, one such interdisciplinary contributor, will be reimagining flatbed handcarts as stages for theatrical performances and community activities.
Another participant, Sa’dia Rehman, will present a film that addresses her family’s displacement from Pakistan when, between 1968 and 1976, the state constructed the massive Tarbela Dam on the Indus River. Rajesh Vora and the National Institute of Design will present a photographic archive of images of the Sabarmati River in India.
The nomadic art collective Karachi LaJamia, which was founded by the artists Shahana Rajani and Zahra Malkani in 2015, will create a community reading room that will share histories of resistance ecological knowledge from Pakistan. Also as part of the triennial, Yaminay Chaudhri and Karachi Beach Radio will stage a sound installation that incorporates elements of oral history.
Overall, the triennial centers around the general theme of harmonious collectivism: how can we achieve this state of being through architecture in a technology-stratified world? Discourse and public conversation regarding those matters are central to the multifaceted event’s success. Anthropologist-curator Vyjayanthi Rao and associated curator Tau Tavengwa are responsible for bringing all the participants together.
“Against the exceptionalism, extractive logics, and separations that characterize architecture as usual, the Triennial proposes other ways of imagining, inhabiting, and collectively producing the built environment,” Rao said in a statement.
The full list of participants are: ABARI; Another Empty House; Aslıhan Demirtaş, Ali Cindoruk, Dilşad Aladağ; Azza Aboualam; Badriyah Alsalem; BARDStudio (Rupali Gupte and Prasad Shetty); Brent Kokonya & Dennis Muraguri; Cassim Shepard; Chloë Bass & Bill Dietz; Curry J. Hackett; Hiba Bou Akar, Mohamad Hafeda & Nathalie Harb; Karachi LaJamia; Keller Easterling; Kevin Kimwelle / Indalo World; Kishwar Rizvi; Kush Badhwar; Let’s Build Great Things!; LionHeart; Megawra Built Environment Collective in collaboration with RIWAQ; Mohamad Nahleh & Ozayr Saloojee; Nashin Mahtani/Disaster Map Foundation; People’s Architecture Office; POCAA (Platform of Community Action and Architecture); Rajesh Vora and the National Institute of Design; Sa’dia Rehman; Samar Halloum; Social Design Collaborative; Sudarshan Shetty; Tanya Zack, Mark Lewis & Thireshen Govender; Torolab (Raúl Cárdenas); Yaminay Chaudhri & Karachi Beach Radio; and Ziad Jamaleddine, Makram el Kadi, Iheb Guermazi and Beya Othmani.