Sharjah (in)visible City
Juan Roldan
November 24, 2018

Sharjah (in)Visible City workshop creates a collective map of the city using drawing technique in order to capture intangible aspects of the built environment of Sharjah (odors, textures, sounds, unperceived details and hidden elements from our daily life…). The workshop is aimed at exploring the subjective part of the city, creating a graphic and written narrative which is achieved through drawings in order to create a map that portrays the unexpected, the unforeseen and the surprise of Sharjah heritage area. Participants create a route in the city, drifting and surveying the city. The final map is aimed at erasing any pre-conceived idea of a ci-ty map, creating a unique layered and subjec-tive graphic cartography, made out of new sensorial references. An enriched digital file with images, textures, sketches, sounds and video. A psycho-geography that reclaims the city as a personal and sensorial experience. A graphic document revealing the invisible. A way of re-appropriating the city.

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