Sharjah Architecture Triennal, Sharjah Art Foundation, January 16, 2019
Visiting Sharjah and meeting with Mahnaz Fancy, Senior Program Officer at Sharjah Architecture Triennial, students had the chance to critically engage with the UAE’s built environment. Guided by Fancy on a walking tour through Shansasiyah Souq, we grappled with politics of representation and visibility, and what and who are the historical and authentic residents of the emirate. In particular, we questioned our conceptions of space, asking ‘what can we gain by recognizing power in global political relations?’
We also questioned the temporality of modernity, asking ‘how can we understand the spaces we inhabit differently by shifting the temporal frame of history?’