Textual Grounds (2021).
Textual Grounds takes form as a design-research project of writing—one that investigates the textual form, as well as the construction, continuation, and shifting of narratives that compose defamiliarized landscapes. It addresses the fictions of place in its constant state of becoming. Textual investigations take the personal narrative as a point of departure, looking into how it can transform into spatial languages, public ritual and reorientation, and groundwork.
Through three scales of writing; Ground [edatho-graphy], event [choreo-graphy], object [anthro-graphy]; Textual Grounds uncovers and re-inserts past and emerging narratives of Beirut by indentifying post-traumatic landscapes of defamiliarization as fertile common grounds that hold shared cultural memories.
Supervised by Lina Ghotmeh and Surry Schlabs.
Textual Grounds takes form as a design-research project of writing—one that investigates the textual form, as well as the construction, continuation, and shifting of narratives that compose defamiliarized landscapes. It addresses the fictions of place in its constant state of becoming. Textual investigations take the personal narrative as a point of departure, looking into how it can transform into spatial languages, public ritual and reorientation, and groundwork.
Through three scales of writing; Ground [edatho-graphy], event [choreo-graphy], object [anthro-graphy]; Textual Grounds uncovers and re-inserts past and emerging narratives of Beirut by indentifying post-traumatic landscapes of defamiliarization as fertile common grounds that hold shared cultural memories.
Supervised by Lina Ghotmeh and Surry Schlabs.
