Profile

Email

sarahshrbaji@hotmail.com

Science ID

BF19-BF75-5C6D

Ciênciavitae

n/a

ORCID

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Lab2PT Group

SpaceR - Space and Representation

Scientific Area

Arts; Architecture

Supervision

João Rosmaninho Marta Labastida João Sarmento

Project Title

A Fictional Representation in the Geo-architecture of Syrian Student Migrations to Portugal: Traces and Chronotopes of (E)scape paths amidst the Mediterranean from 2014 to 2018

Abstract

The theme of the thesis is a geo-architectural two-fold that addresses a representation of Syrian student migrations to Portugal as an approach in the interdisciplinary field of architecture. The structure is split into two parts: theoretical, expressing how “architecture for migration in words” could communicate from the performed dialogs about the migratory itineraries a translation of words onto architectural language; then, practical, implementing the theoretical on “architecture for migratory contexts and their escapes”, as an approach for visual and textual representations of the selected migrations. The practical work becomes an experimentation process of theory conditioned and adapted by an expression of lines and dislocated studies of a migratory context. In this exercise of drawing and tracing the escape paths each migrant’s narrative becomes visualized through geo-architectural moments within a memory, a mobility, and a march. From there, the path representation brings about a back and forth interchange between theory and practice. Subjects such as memory obliteration and recollection, other’s experience and sense of time-space, and map distortions become base-lines of the path representation. Accordingly, the thesis builds a method of representation that concerns the agency of mapping. In each case study an inter-subjectivity is developed from performing the dialogue to narrating what the migrant as an interlocutor induces and what the author as a dialogist consequently engenders onto the migratory context and its representation. This inter-subjectivity is a reading of a concoction between the shared story and the in-the-process observation, realization and interpretation of the migratory path through representation. To that, what is developed and projected in the process, is an result of how the migrant affected and shaped their environment, how their environment affected and shaped them and their event-memory and experience, and how this relation, as a whole, affects perceiving and shaping the experience within representation.

Keywords

Geo-architecture; Fictional representation; Syrian student migrations; Chronotope; Agency of mapping

FCT Reference

2020.05947.BD

Organic Unit

School of Architecture, Art and Design of the University of Minho