““i am sitting at the corner desk in my temporary home in amsterdam. i am sitting in the design department studio at my temporary, time-shared space in Sandberg, in Amsterdam,” he repeats in different formulations throughout his thesis. Dovetailing a lively experiment in shared dwelling in an abandoned villa in Zuqaq al-Blat, Beirut from 2012 to 2020, Hassan found himself re-positioned both geographically and in relation to his practice. Immersed in a new collective experiment, this time hosted by Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, time and space opened onto a rich and turbulent process of reflection alongside his creative process—one that questions what it means to position oneself within existing structures and categories, and in turn, asks how to actively and collectively reshape the conditions and environments that situate us.” Excerpt from an essay on Ayman Hassan by Anik Fournier