EXPLORING URBAN RECOVERY SCENARIOS Reimagining Bazar Abbas

This workshop is planned as the second event of the “Bazar Abbas: Recovery Lab of Port Said” project, aiming to enhance capacity for the urban recovery of Port Said. This project is a two-year initiative led by BTU in partnership with Galala University, Al Yakaniya for Heritage and Arts, Port Said Ala Ademo and Alliance Française de Port-saïd. It is funded by the British Council’s Cultural Protection Fund in partnership with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.  

The project involves a series of training and workshops that build upon each other. The first workshop, held in March 2023, conducted site-specific studies in the Arab and European neighbourhoods of Port Said, with a particular emphasis on understanding the impact of war and conflict on local urban narratives and heritage interpretations. The timber veranda or Taracina, as a key component of Port Said’s architecture, played a central role in the workshop. The findings and outputs from this workshop are shared with the participants of the second workshop to provide them with a better understanding of the context. Likewise, the findings and outputs from the second workshop will inform the third workshop, which is scheduled for July 2024 and will focus on integrated urban rehabilitation. Additionally, a training program on the restoration of Taracina and the rehabilitation of Bazar Abbas was implemented in the autumn of 2023.  

Publications

https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-btu/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/7289/file/Transform_14_2026.pdf

Links

https://cultural-protection-fund.britishcouncil.org/projects/abbas-bazaar

https://www.facebook.com/BazarAbbas.RecoveryLab/

https://www.instagram.com/abbas_bazar_recovery_lab/