“Every Tracina has a story” Urban Heritage Narratives Workshop: Every Taracina has a Story

As the first event in the series of activities planned for the project Abbas Bazaar: Recovery Lab of Port Said, this workshop will address the questions of urban narratives and collective memory, conflict and recovery, urban mapping and heritage interpretation through the perspective of local communities in Port Said. 

The workshop in particular targets Egyptian students and researchers in the fields of architecture, urban planning, and heritage studies. Participants in five groups will carry out site-specific studies within the so-called Arab and European neighbourhoods of Port Said with a special focus given to the effect of war and years of conflict on local urban narratives and heritage interpretations. Timber veranda or Taracina as an integral component of Port Said’s Architecture will be regarded as a leading element during the practice. 

The topics will be explored and developed on the basis of input talks by academics and practitioners, locally-guided city walks, site observations and interviews with locals as well as the heritage advocates. 

The groups are expected to go through an intensive experience of exploring Port Said from local viewpoints with its diversity and plurality. Moreover, the workshop focuses on presenting these (heritage) narratives in a creative and accessible way and with view to the role that they should play in recovery decision making. 

Therefore, the outcome of this workshop will further be developed and employed for the planning workshop in September 2023 that will focus on formulating urban recovery guidelines in the historic core of Port Said as well as the tourism workshop in June 2024 that will focus on formulating sustainable tourism guidelines of the same study area. 

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/