Makkah vs Makkah
Monday
– Thursday, February 2-12, 2015
Registration
is now open to students and professionals alike who are interested in
participating in an 11-day AA Visiting School
design workshop in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, which taps and allows you rare access
into the Saudi Kingdom.
Brief
Outline
To imagine a city is to express more fully
its living character, its essence, rooted in the everyday hustle and bustle
that shape its formation. The imagination creates a place within a place, a
sanctuary that expands our perception through transcending reality and
broadening the horizon. The relationship between what is imagined in the city
and what actually exists is fundamental to linking a
place to its prospects. It enables these prospects to play a role in the
discussion about the identity and peculiarities of the place.
We seek to discover Mecca as explorers and
dig deep into collecting and unraveling what lies beneath the surface. The
overall ambition of the visiting school is to compile a body of research about
the city that lies beyond the holy mosque and to record and represent both the
visible and invisible landscapes of the city, to explore the everyday life of
the inhabitants and the pilgrims. We will venture to speculate and imagine the
future of the city. The visiting school studio will collectively produce a
section that cuts through the entire city, revealing the heart of the imagined
city.
The workshop is open to current architecture and design
students, PhD candidates, and young professionals.
Software requirements: Adobe
Creative Suite, Rhino (SR9 or later).
For further information please find the
follow links below:
Web site: http://jeddah.aaschool.ac.uk/
Email: jeddah@aaschool.ac.uk
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