November 5th, 2021

FUTURE FORMS AND ALTERNATIVE METHODS, SESSION TWO

Hope Revisited

Moderated by Tiffany Chung, with speakers Ammar Azzouz and Valerie Plesch.


Tiffany Chung (Vietnam/US) is a visual artist whose work examines conflict, migration, urban progress, and transformation in relation to history and cultural memory. She is co-founder of San Art, an independent, artist-initiated gallery space in Vietnam and holds an MFA from UC Santa Barbara.

Ammar Azzouz is a UK-based architect and writer. Ammar works as an analyst at Arup, and he is a Short Term Research Associate at the University of Oxford.

Valerie Plesch is a first-generation Vietnamese Argentine American independent photojournalist, documentary photographer, and writer based in northern Virginia. She has reported from Kosovo and Afghanistan and is currently documenting the growing Afghan community in the Washington, DC area, including the arrival of asylum seekers and refugees who fled Afghanistan.