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Cultural Exchange and Urban Appropriation: Spaces for Art in Sharjah's Historical Centre
Author(s) -
El Mousfy Mona,
Syed Sharmeen
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1852
Subject(s) - appropriation , cultural heritage , cultural exchange , visual arts , foundation (evidence) , history , sociology , art , archaeology , anthropology , epistemology , philosophy
There is a common misconception that culture in the Gulf must be entirely newly imported and artificial. Architect Mona El Mousfy and architect and researcher Sharmeen Syed , who have both been engaged as architects for the Sharjah Art Foundation Art Spaces project and the Sharjah Biennial, challenge the notion of ‘constructed heritage’ at Sharjah in UAE. They show Sharjah to be a highly adaptive, historically multiethnic city that is characterised by its cultural fluidity.