City Incarnation | Publication
Date: 2016
Location: Damascus, Syria / Cambridge, England
Type: Artistic Work/ Exhibition
Support: Ettijahat Independent Culture
"City Incarnation" is an architectural-artistic work that spots the distortion and misusage effects on the body of Damascus by exploring some current and prospective architectural investments that supposedly aim to develop the city, that we, as citizens, doubtfully think it would.
"City Incarnation" is a multidimensional approach in which the work proposes paradoxical issues to change the way we see and expand our perception of the city. It is a metaphorical imaginary assumption. How can we imagine the city of Damascus if it was in the human image? From an architectural perspective, what would this body have suffered from? What would be the real estate that has affected the city-body the most? What change does it have over that body and how could it be represented?
Fourteen case studies of the city-body status, exploring the apparent and the hidden; the imposed reality and the expectations.
This work was accomplished with an open collaborative technique; fourteen participants and a supervisor.
Participants:
Tala Al-Shami
Lujain Halimeh
Mohammad Zanboua
Jamal Eddin Kher
Momen Sirri
Majida Malo
Fares Whby
Ahmed Al-Salhi
Yara Moussa
Tala Shams Eddin
Amer D. Hasan
Reem Jamal Aldin
Mohammad Henawi
Hanaii Faour
Rana Ibraheem
