[Un]Settled Edge
Still taken from [Un]Settled Edge [Un]Settled Edge (2025) This experimental piece, produced through a collaboration between Mahsa Alami Fariman , Ahmadreza Hakiminejad, and Duncan Whitley , reflects on sensory encounters with the spatial dynamics of the buffer zone in Nicosia, Cyprus. Emerging from a 31-day secondment in the summer of 2024 , supported by Spatial Practices in Art and Architecture for Empathetic Exchange (SpaceX-RISE), the work explores themes of liminality, urban interstices, and the tension between separation and connection. Funded by the Social Diversity in Planning Practice research cluster at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit (UCL), the piece negotiates the politics of in-between space in the divided city through a sequence of still images, tracing the poetic and affective spatial relations that emerge within the buffer zone and along its unsettled edges. Edit & Soundmix: Duncan Whitley Photography: Mahsa Alami Fariman, Ahmadreza Hakiminejad Addi...