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M e m o i r s . .
Memoirs:
-Al-Nakba Memorial: The Palestinian Memories of Displacement
-Damascene Memories
Al-Nakba (meaning catastrophe in English) Memorial and Museum project is practice-based research, conducted by Omar Mohammad, as part of larger PhD research in Landscape Architecture at The University of Edinburgh. The main thesis examines user’s perception and the psychological ‘transactional’ relationship with contemporary anti-memorial landscape, together with its abstract interpretive design.
By 1948 more than 700,000 Palestinians fled or were forcibly expelled from their homes, and more than 500 villages were destroyed. The proposed Al-Nakba Memorial project is dedicated to the memories of Palestinians’ displacement from their homeland, and works as an evolving environments for personal profile and Nakba oral history with photography, maps and documents archives. It would act as an interactive working theatre for interpretation, actions and refection by refugees and other memorial visitors.
The conceptual design framework is inspired by the Palestinian natural and cultural landscape, and the transactional and emotional relationship between Palestinians and their lands. Lands as places of living, refuge and harvesting. This relationship with land was expressed in the design through the fragmentation, transformation and formulation of Palestinian geography into new-flux spatial configuration.
The exhibition will also include some photographs from the collaborative project 'Damascene Memories' about evoking remote memories of a place through design and photography, with Syrian photographer and architect Ettizan Ghuzlan.
7 October at 17:00 until 14 October
Tent Gallery, Evolution House, Edinburgh College of Art, 78 West Port, EH1 2LE
M e m o i r s . .
Memoirs:
-Al-Nakba Memorial: The Palestinian Memories of Displacement
-Damascene Memories
Al-Nakba (meaning catastrophe in English) Memorial and Museum project is practice-based research, conducted by Omar Mohammad, as part of larger PhD research in Landscape Architecture at The University of Edinburgh. The main thesis examines user’s perception and the psychological ‘transactional’ relationship with contemporary anti-memorial landscape, together with its abstract interpretive design.
By 1948 more than 700,000 Palestinians fled or were forcibly expelled from their homes, and more than 500 villages were destroyed. The proposed Al-Nakba Memorial project is dedicated to the memories of Palestinians’ displacement from their homeland, and works as an evolving environments for personal profile and Nakba oral history with photography, maps and documents archives. It would act as an interactive working theatre for interpretation, actions and refection by refugees and other memorial visitors.
The conceptual design framework is inspired by the Palestinian natural and cultural landscape, and the transactional and emotional relationship between Palestinians and their lands. Lands as places of living, refuge and harvesting. This relationship with land was expressed in the design through the fragmentation, transformation and formulation of Palestinian geography into new-flux spatial configuration.
The exhibition will also include some photographs from the collaborative project 'Damascene Memories' about evoking remote memories of a place through design and photography, with Syrian photographer and architect Ettizan Ghuzlan.
7 October at 17:00 until 14 October
Tent Gallery, Evolution House, Edinburgh College of Art, 78 West Port, EH1 2LE