Majd al-Shihabi

Majd al-Shihabi is a PhD candidate researching the influence of City of Toronto climate action plan (TransformTO) on the urban fabric of the city. His doctoral project seeks to understand how the technical modelling used for policy design can open or close political imaginaries for desirable futures. Specifically, he uses co-creation methods of building counter-models that envision different policy pathways for the future of urban living in Toronto. Majd is the co-founder of Palestine Open Maps, and the MASRAD collective.

Publications

Al-Shihabi, M. (forthcoming). The camp and the encampment. South Atlantic Quarterly.

Al-Shihabi, M. (2022, December 12). Broken World Thinking, and Maintaining the Commons. Society and Space, Investigating Infrastructures III. https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/broken-world-thinking-and-maint...

Al-Shihabi, M., & Cowen, D. (2024). Intervention—“From a Fence…To the Barricades! Inverting Infrastructure at Tkaronto’s People’s Circle for Palestine.” Antipode Online. https://antipodeonline.org/2024/08/05/from-a-fence-to-the-barricades/

Al-Shihabi, M., & Tahir, M. (2019, December 16). Which Digital Instruments for the Revolution? THE FUNAMBULIST MAGAZINE, 27. https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/27-learning-with-palestine/which-dig...

Al-Shihabi, M., & Tesdell, O. (2023). Open data against erasure. In ARABORAMA: Ce que la Palestine apporte au monde. Institut du monde arabe. https://librairie.imarabe.org/ce-que-la-palestine-apporte-au-monde?