
Territory as Palimpsest
teaching
2017 - now
The agency actively engages in teaching, particularly within the School of Architecture, Planning & Design (SAP+D) at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), sharing its experience while fostering connections between pedagogy, research, and architectural practice. The Moroccan rural territory constitutes a privileged and complex field of observation, condensing multiple tensions and successive layers of rewriting, where ways of inhabiting continuously adapt to environmental conditions. Territory is approached as a living palimpsest: an assemblage of historical, social, geographical, and ecological strata whose understanding is essential to any relevant architectural intervention. Students are invited to explore contemporary relationships between urbanization, nature, and human and non-human societies. The pedagogical approach promotes a holistic, sensitive, and critical perspective, enabling a departure from inherited dichotomies such as rural/urban, traditional/modern, or natural/artificial. Guidance therefore focuses on analytical readings of territory, the integration of social and environmental issues, and the construction of an architectural position grounded in contextual sensitivity and critical rigor.
