Mapping the Displacement of an Urban Social and Spatial Context
This is an academic research project that aims to create an archival account of the transient urban spatial and social context of the city of Baghdad over the last 10 years.
The focus of the study will be on the social and spatial segregation and divisions created via blast walls, barbed wire and checkpoints that are dividing communities within the city and isolating the centre of power represented in the International Zone (previously referred to as the Green Zone) area in Baghdad.
For that the project is seeking a clever camera man/woman or a photographer with a sensitive eye to artistic detail to help with collating footage, photographs or any accounts and stories about the walls. The project will also focus on an urban study using GIS Maps of Baghdad collated from agencies such as LandSat, DigitalGlobe and others.
The main focus of this call is requiring help in obtaining photos/footage/stories of the wall preferably ones that show life on both sides of the wall (showing people going about their day to day lives). These photos/footage/stories need to be identifiable in terms of their location on a map of Baghdad.
If you are interested then please contact Dr. Sana Murrani (the main researcher on this project, Lecturer at the School of Architecture, Plymouth University, UK) on sana.murrani@gmail.com