Co-published with 421 This book is published on the occasion of On Foraging: Food Knowledge and Environmental Imaginaries in the UAE’s Landscape, an exhibition commissioned by Warehouse421 for the UAE Pavilion at Expo 2020, Dubai, UAE. Edited with introduction and interviews by Dima Srouji, Faysal Tabbarah, Meitha Almazrooei. This publication showcases transformative solutions …
Edited with introduction and interviews by Dima Srouji, Faysal Tabbarah, Meitha Almazrooei.
This publication showcases transformative solutions for food insecurity in the UAE over the past 50 years. From innovations in the private sector to public policy initiatives, these strategies aim to eliminate hunger by providing year-round access to nutritious food in a country whose natural landscape is unconducive to farming.
About the Authors
Faysal Tabbarah is the Associate Dean and an Associate Professor of Architecture at the American University of Sharjah. He is also Co-founder of Architecture + Other Things, an architecture and design studio based in Sharjah. Tabbarah’s teaching and research interrogate the potential of activating Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) material and environmental practices to drive innovative contemporary design and building solutions by exploring context-driven modes of production, alternative material systems, and the relationship between environmental and architectural imaginaries. At AUS, Tabbarah teaches core and option design studios, seminars integrate issues of Orientalism and the built and natural environments, computational design seminars, and required structures courses.
Meitha Al Mazrooei is the editor of WTD Magazine. She completed her M.S. in Critical, Curatorial & Conceptual Practices in Architecture at Columbia University’s GSAPP. She is currently pursuing her PhD in History Theory and Criticism of Architecture at MIT.
About the Publishers
Founded in 2015 with the mission of promoting the talent of artists from the region, Kaph Books is a publishing house based in Beirut, Lebanon, and specialising in quality art books on Middle-Eastern artists or art practices. Each book is unique, created in collaboration with the artists and contributors with high technical and design quality.
421 Arts Campus is an independent platform dedicated to emerging artists and creative practitioners in the UAE and across the region. A site for research, learning and experimentation, 421 provides a nurturing environment for emergent creative practices and those who want to harness the arts as an agent for social inquiry and transformation. 421 encourages practitioners to explore the potential of public spaces as a means for progress and community engagement through a wide-ranging programmatic model that facilitates artistic exchange and critical dialogue.
