• This happening takes place in the Saffron Hall on Tuesday, 8th March at 9 AM.
• Please bring your own blank tote bag or t-shirt.
• Registration is required.

• 10th March 2022, 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM
• Atrium
• Upon Registration Only

The canonical history of twentieth-century architecture and design in the English language is, like most histories, a constructed and partial view of reality. Yet it has often been perpetuated by its authors as a universal narrative of modernism consisting of a lineup of architects and designers, often Euro-American men, a progression of styles, and a sequence of masterworks. This reductionist view of history expires as soon as it is brought forth, as new information constantly emerges on that which was left out from narratives previously presented as complete.

Merely adding “newly found” architects and designers or their designs in an effort to make the existing narrative “global” without radically rethinking the very structures that underpin this reading of history do not suffice. New critical histories of design are not to replace one hierarchical narrative with another.

This proposed timeline is presented in two formats when launched in the context of Tasmeem Doha 2022. The timeline visualizes a partial history of architecture and design focusing on Latin America and the Arab World enriched by the inclusion of a slew of geographically diverse political and cultural benchmarks from around the rest of the world. It is anchored in the idea that any view of history is always provisional. There is no finite reading nor any claim to a “complete history” here.

In this talk, Mohamed Elshahed, the curator of the project, will present the timeline and discuss the conceptual ideas that produced it.

Mohamed Elshahed will be giving this talk virtually to a live audience. Seats are limited and are only open to VCUarts Qatar or Education city students, faculty, or alumni. In-person attendees must follow VCUarts Qatar guidelines related to COVID-19.

This event will be streamed live. Members of the public are welcome to ask questions in a moderated chat, at the end of each session.

This registration is for the in-person talk by Róisín Tapponi on the FIRST DAY of screenings of the film program. The first screenings will take place in the Atrium on 7th March 2022 at 3:15 PM for the VCUarts Qatar community only.

7 March 2022

• Tayseer (2021, 15’) dir. Khalida Bataweel
• Glaze (2021, 35’) dir. Moza Almatrooshi

8 March 2022

• A DIY of a Dream 101 (2021, 6’) dir. Qamar Abdulmalik
• I Engrave (2016, 7’) dir. Reem Falaknaz
• The Girls Who Burned The Night (2020, 24’) dir. Sara Mesfer

9 March 2022

• Seeds After Black Gold (2021, 8’) dir. Razan Al Sarraf
• Glimpses of Now (2021, 48’) dir. Mohammed al Faraj

10 March 2022

• The Green Light (2021, 7’) dir. Ahaad Alamoudi
• Salad Zone (2013) dir. Sarah Abu Abdallah
• The Sky Oscillates Between Eternity and Its Immediate Consequences (2021, 18’) dir. Nadim Choufi

Films are screened as part of the Gulf Metaverse 2.0 program curated by Róisín Tapponi (Assyrian Iraqi-Irish film curator, programmer, writer, and academic)

The screening is taking place in the Atrium on 7th March 2022 at 3:15 PM for the VCUarts Qatar community only.

Films are streamed via Shashamovies.com.