On the 15th of September 2019, The French Center of Archaeology and Social Sciences hosted a workshop in collaboration with the Embassy of France in Kuwait, joining Dr. Asseel Al-Ragam (Kuwait University), Dr. Roman Stadnicki (University of Tours, France), Dr. Laure Assaf (New York University-Abu Dhabi), and moderator Prof. Muneerah Alrabe (Kuwait University).
Asseel Al-Ragam
The workshop started with a welcoming speech given by H.E. the French Ambassador to Kuwait Marie Masdupuy and was followed by three lectures on different perspectives of public spaces in Kuwait : for Dr. Al-Ragam, it was about morphing this sphere into one that would “encourage sociability and environmentally-friendly mobility patterns”, and facing forthcoming climate and population growth concerns through sustainable urban development. Dr. Roman Stadnicki examined the idealized on-site depictions of architectural projects on signboards and their incongruity with reality. He also touched upon the “communication and urban crisis” manifested in the vacant and diverted billboards in the city and their aesthetic impact. In her presentation, Dr. Laure Assaf turned towards modes of visibility and anonymity informed by the linguistic, ethnic and religious diversity in Abu Dhabi as well as gender and class. For the Arab youths of Abu Dhabi, Emiratis and Arab expatriates who were born and grew up in the city, the resulting segregation of urban space paradoxically enables a form of anonymity which allows young adults to emancipate themselves from moral and social norms, and to navigate the spaces of “others” in the city.
Laure Assaf
Roman Stadnicki
Workshop : Public Spaces in Kuwait
The workshop was accompanied by an exhibition at Contemporary Art Platform Kuwait by photographer Manuel Benchetrit titled The Skin of the City. It parallels Dr. Stadnicki's presentation on billboards of architectural projects in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, some of which depict cities that might never be built or inhabited, becoming “image-mirages that cover the urban body like a skin”.
The Skin of the City - Manuel Benchetrit
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