Treating data as a living archive, these investigations confront representational gaps and epistemic harms in the SWANA region, with a particular focus on Levantine histories and cultural narratives. Through generative AI, they create speculative archives—training LoRA models on mid-century SWANA records and re-situating cultural symbols—to challenge biased representations and recover Indigenous modes of self-representation. These investigations explore a sense of futuristic nostalgia: how technologies that feel increasingly alien might still become vessels for memory, longing, and repair, reimagining the past not as static history but as a living horizon for possible futures. They play on the tension between nostalgia and technological acceleration, asking how advanced systems of automation and synthesis might be reclaimed as spaces for cultural resonance, remembrance, and renewal.
Future Archives
