WHAT’S GOING ON HERE

Studio Wombling is the collaborative work of Lara Hassani and Ameen Ahmed, based in Toronto, Canada.

“Wombling” is like wobbling and bumbling, and also like juggling and meddling. Some of the things we’re juggling are: architecture, curation, public art, research, teaching, and writing. We operate in a post-apocalyptic mode; we believe that the apocalypse — of climate, of capital — is not forthcoming, but already here, just unevenly distributed.

THESIS ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY VI, 1940 ︎ WALTER BENJAMIN
“Only that historian will have the gift of fanning the spark of hope in the past who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious.”

We investigate things — cultural artifacts, architecture — both contemporary as well as historical, looking for viable political solidarities across the past and the present. We guarantee all results of our investigations: you will be firmly convinced of our findings, or at the very least, mildly suspicious of the world.