{"id":51616,"date":"2021-05-24T07:25:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T07:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lebanonnewsgazette.com\/?p=51616"},"modified":"2021-05-25T07:29:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T07:29:53","slug":"aub-research-project-beirut-shifting-grounds-at-17th-international-venice-architecture-biennale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lebanonnewsgazette.com\/aub-research-project-beirut-shifting-grounds-at-17th-international-venice-architecture-biennale\/","title":{"rendered":"AUB RESEARCH PROJECT: \u201cBEIRUT SHIFTING GROUNDS AT 17TH INTERNATIONAL VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NNA &#8211;\u00a0Beirut Shifting Grounds, an American University of Beirut (AUB) research project, was presented at the Co-Habitats section at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition, \u201cHow will we live together?\u201d held in Venice Biennale\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/7\">from May 22 to November 21, 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This project came to life with the support of the Department of Architecture and Design (ArD) and the Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (MSFEA) at the American University of Beirut (AUB), led by Sandra Frem (AUB \/ platau &#8211; platform for architecture and urbanism), Boulos Doueihy (platau), with ArD faculty Carla Aramouny, Nicolas Fayad, and Rana Haddad, and the contributions of Nayla Al-Akl (Department of Landscape Design and Ecosystem Management at AUB), Joanne Hayek (ArD) and Ahmad Nouraldeen (ArD).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The project<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Beirut Shifting Grounds spanned over two years, simultaneously as Beirut was going downhill with the collapse of its economy, pandemic outbreak, and finally the Beirut Port explosion. This very same period was ripe with unprecedented activism, collective self-organization, and bottom-up mobilization in the face of the pervading adversity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In such context, the project probes \u201chow will we live together\u201d by foregrounding spatial practices at the ground level of Beirut that allow people to adapt through uncertainty and change. Through four parallel narratives, the research focuses on manifestations of improvisation, reclamation, and production that offer lessons of adaptation and solidarity for the uncertain future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The human lens &#8211; it is all on the streets &#8211; presents four short films that encounter the act of \u201cbeing\u201d in Beirut\u2019s public realm through shifting conditions: privatization, revolution, and post-blast activism.<\/p>\n<p>The urban lens &#8211; improvisation &#8211; projects the life of seven neighborhoods in Beirut through transitional moments; narrating their urban transformation, improvisations at their ground level, as well as indicators that inform their urban pulse. This lens traces how improvisations evolve to organized networks of solidarity after the Port blast, during the relief and reconstruction period.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The architecture lens &#8211; production &#8211; narrates Beirut\u2019s built environment through specific buildings and typologies of sections, reflecting on the spatial modes of production that shaped Beirut\u2019s ground until the Port blast, and calling for new modes of collective production amid the post-blast reconstruction.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The temporal lens \u2013 reclamation &#8211; emphasize the agency of urban space to accommodate public expression through a time-lapse of Martyrs\u2019 square, focusing on the metamorphosis of its urban form, activities, public mobilization, and its capacity to reinvent itself through the different periods.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Together, the four lenses raise an open speculation on the architecture of the ground and its proclivity to support collective appropriation, offering the possibility of a city that still belongs to its inhabitants amid shifting conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The installation comprises two overlapping volumes: one that emerges from the ground and one that is suspended from the ceiling. The base hosts three videos projecting respectively the urban, architecture, and temporal lenses. The suspended volume features the project title and concept note, a timeline of change for Beirut from 2000 until 2020 and QR codes meant to be scanned to access the four films of the human lens.&#8211; AUB<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: National News Agency-Lebanon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NNA &#8211;\u00a0Beirut Shifting Grounds, an American University of Beirut (AUB) research project, was presented at the Co-Habitats section at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition, \u201cHow will we live together?\u201d held in Venice Biennale\u00a0from May 22 to November 21, 2021. &nbsp; This project came to life with the support of the Department of Architecture and Design &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lebanonnewsgazette.com\/aub-research-project-beirut-shifting-grounds-at-17th-international-venice-architecture-biennale\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AUB RESEARCH PROJECT: \u201cBEIRUT SHIFTING GROUNDS AT 17TH INTERNATIONAL VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - 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