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Cesare Correnti 14
Via Cesare Correnti, 14
The exhibition demonstrates the on-going effort to question and uncover ways of making and consuming within the domestic and built realms; highlighting the pivotal role various ingredients and craftsmanship methods have played within the Emirati topographical and constructed environments. The traditional recipes for construction and food can be considered equally intuitive, yet an attempt to breakdown, document, and redesign such recipes whilst formulating them into the context of a space sheds light on our shared cultural heritage. Referencing a locus and its traditional methods of Excavation, Harvest, Preservation, and Craftsmanship – all in direct relation to Gastronomy, Architecture, and Design – is a continuing education on the true meaning of sustainability.
Due to the cultural and sustainable significance of looking inwards and returning to the vernacular, Irthi Contemporary Crafts Council set out to curate an experimental research for its Design Labs II initiative: in which the first year focused on a research fellowship with the American University of Sharjah’s College of Architecture, Art and Design. Research assistants delved into a series of urban mappings of various environments in the UAE, creating innovative recipes for construction that became in themselves a contemporary format of “craft”. The result of this fellowship is a growing material library of recipes that redefines, reinterprets and reimagines the future of vernacular materials and crafts of the UAE to be carried forward and explored by artisans, makers, designers, and architects on a macro scale.
Irthi Contemporary Crafts Council together with Mr.Lawrence studio developed the building recipes into an exhibition design format centred around a sequence of tables inhabiting various rooms, each acting as both communal setting and display surface. Originally conceived by Civil Architecture, these tables act as tray platforms to the Gastronomy research developed between Sharjah and Milan, guided by the UAE’s vast heritage and complex culture. Reconnecting the food culture to sustainability, the research unfolded in a series of innovative food recipes and curated dinner experiences by Casalinghe di Tokyo, tailored with food instruments designed by Studiopepe and Irthi Contemporary Crafts Council’s designers.
