Saudi Arabia 2025
The layered stories of Riyadh's urban fabric are examined through oral, visual, and experimental documentation, revealing new ways of imagining the built environment.
Title: The Um Slaim School: An Architecture of Connection
Commissioner: Architecture and Design Commission, Ministry of Culture
Curator: Beatrice Leanza, assisted by Sara Almutlaq
Exhibitors: Sara Alissa and Nojoud Alsudairi (Syn Architects)
The exhibition draws together oral, visual, and experimental documentation to examine the layered stories and relationships embedded in Riyadh’s urban fabric, revealing new ways of reading and imagining the built environment that are continuous with the spatial learnings of the past. In so doing, it aims to nurture a new ecosystem for architectural education in Saudi Arabia and foster transnational dialogue with practice-led pedagogies and research-centered methodologies to address challenges related to climate change, resource management, and the social dimension of the city.
The Um Slaim School: An Architecture of Connection presents the architectural heritage of Riyadh in relation to ecology, identity, and urban-making by advancing how local pedagogical institutions and places of knowledge can address the urgencies of a rapidly evolving world – in Saudi Arabia, the Arab region, and beyond. A generative program of laboratorial and public sessions will contribute to and enhance spatial and urban thinking in the region.
VENUE:
Arsenale
OPENING TIMES:
May 10 – Sep 28 11am – 8pm; Sep 29 – Nov 23 10am – 6pm
ADDRESS
Arsenale, Campo de la Tana, 2169, 30122 Venice, Italy
