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National Pavilion UAE’s Venice Biennale Exhibition 'Lifescapes Beyond Bigness' Closes
Fakhir Rizvi Published December 05, 2018 | 01:00 PM
After a successful 6-month run, the National Pavilion UAE’s exhibition at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition in 2018 closed on 25th November. The 2018 edition of the Venice Biennale drew a total of over 275,000 visitors from around the world to its exploration of global architectural ideas and conversations.
VENICE, Italy, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News / WAM - 05th Dec, 2018) After a successful 6-month run, the National Pavilion UAE’s exhibition at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition in 2018 closed on 25th November. The 2018 edition of the Venice Biennale drew a total of over 275,000 visitors from around the world to its exploration of global architectural ideas and conversations.
The UAE’s exhibition, Lifescapes Beyond Bigness, highlighted the interplay between the urban environment and everyday social life in the UAE through images, technical drawings, case studies, maps and three-dimensional scale models. The exhibition was curated by Dr. Khaled Alawadi, an Emirati architect and urban planner and Assistant Professor of Sustainable Urbanism at Abu Dhabi’s Masdar Institute part of Khalifa University of Science and Technology.
"The UAE’s exhibition this year was really well-received by both local and international visitors, reflecting the robust research and insightful analysis that it offered. Lifescapes Beyond Bigness resonated with audience both academically and emotionally and reflects our commitment to contribute significant and important ideas to the Venice Biennale at each edition, telling the untold stories of the UAE through art, architecture and culture," said Khulood Al Atiyat, Manager of Arts, Culture and Heritage at the Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation. The National Pavilion UAE is commissioned by the Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation and supported by the Ministry of Culture and Knowledge Development.
"The interplay between the urban environment and how we live our daily lives is a critical issue for city planning and development in the region and around the world," said Dr. Khaled Alawadi. "Lifescapes Beyond Bigness considers the different scales and systems of urban living and the influence they play on shaping everyday urbanism. The exhibition draws our attention to the merits and virtues of human scale landscapes in an effort to highlight the design and social science perspectives on urban design in shaping cities."
A book edited by Dr. Khaled Alawadi titled Lifescapes Beyond Bigness accompanies the exhibition.
The publication aims to document and map the different typologies and quotidian qualities of everyday urbanism found in UAE’s different urban scales. The book tells an eloquent and inspiring narrative of the Emirates’ unique form of urbanism, revealing hidden sites and concealed stories across four typologies addressed in four core chapters, namely: "The Neighborhood"; "The Network: Street and Sikkak"; "The Urban Block"; and "Urban Space and the Natural Landscape". The fifth, concluding chapter, "In Search of the Human Scale", reflects on the importance of scale in urban design.
Applications for the 2019 Venice Internship are currently open at the National Pavilion UAE website. The programme offers training opportunities to Emiratis and long-term residents of the UAE aged 21 and above with an interest in arts, architecture, diplomacy, international relations or representing the UAE on a significant global platform. Selected interns will each spend one month in Venice managing the UAE’s exhibition at the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (Venice Biennale), which will take place from 11th May to 24th November, 2019. Applications are available on the National Pavilion UAE’s website. Applications close on 3 December 2018.
The curators of the UAE’s exhibition at the 58th International Art Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia (Venice Biennale) are the independent curators and academics Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, marking the UAE’s sixth participation in the International Art Exhibition since 2009.
Bardaouil and Fellrath are the Founders of the multidisciplinary curatorial platform Art Reoriented in Munich and New York, Chairmen of the Montblanc Cultural Foundation in Hamburg, and Affiliate Curators at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. Bardaouil and Fellrath have jointly curated numerous critically acclaimed exhibitions at renowned museums and institutions worldwide, and have held teaching positions at universities including the London school of Economics and New York University. They are award-winning authors with contributions to academic journals, books, newspapers and art magazines.
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