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OTHER FORMS OF RESTORATION
Nojoud Alsudairi

An abode building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia






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‘Other Forms of Restoration is a site-writing exploration into the revival of an adobe
building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. By taking reference to the dominant themes of loss
and memory in ancient arabic poetry that relate to the changing states of being, I begin to employ poetry as a form of writing that responds to the abandoned adobe structures in Umm Slaim. The poems are casted with earthen bricks that would be made to reconstruct parts of a mud-house. The poems written in response to the site touch on both the physical and intangible spatial narratives of these structures.’

Nojoud Alsudairi
 

 

Echoes and Intersections is a collection of site-writings produced as part of the module Critical Spatial Practice: Site-Writing across the MA Architectural History, MA Situated Practice, and MA Historic Urban Environments dgree and PhD programmes at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.

The featured works take the reader through fixed spatial locations and buildings, and on temporal journeys across ambiguous lands and waters. Written simultaneously across the globe, our situated writing offers diverse perspectives and narratives on plural geographies, landscapes and cities, through pieces interwoven with multiple, intersecting threads.

Many of the works occupy edgelands, peripheries or crossing points, writing the boundaries of buildings, states or bodies. They explore homelands, homes and selves that have been deconstructed, revealed and returned to. Echoing with memories, histories and absent others, the sites written carry the voices of place and voices displaced or fragmented, which resonate through the materials of the land - mud, sand, sky and rock.

These writings can be read in any order, allowing connections to emerge differently upon each reading.

Curatorial committee: Toby Blackman, Chia-Ying Chao, Kanza Leghari, Charlotte Morgan & Rasha Saffarini. 

With thanks to Polly Gould, Jane Rendell and David Roberts.


Bloomsbury Festival 2021

In October 2021, participants from the class read from their work on Bloomsbury Radio as part of Bloomsbury Festival 2021, alongside Polly Gould, Jane Rendell, David Roberts and participants from the class of 2020.

Find the recordings on Soundcloud here.