Warehouse 50, Project Space
Explore how heritage sites are both influenced and shaped by their geopolitical landscapes.
Alongside multidisciplinary practitioners in archaeology and geopolitics, we explore the complexities of heritage spaces, examining their environmental conditions and the challenges they face. This session investigates how these spaces both influence and are shaped by their geopolitical landscapes, as well as the methodologies used to map them.
Day: Saturday, 26 April
Time: 11AM - 1PM
Venue: WH50, Project Space
Speakers
Alia Yunis works within the intersecting fields of media, environment and transoceanic heritage. As a writer, filmmaker, and scholar, her work has been translated into 10 languages. Heritage Futures: Stories in the Global Heritage Industry, co-edited with Robert Parthesius and Niccolò Cappalletto, a unique pedagogical exercise in Heritage Studies, was recently published by Routledge (UK, 2025). Her feature documentary, The Golden Harvest, continues to play in festivals and events internationally most recently at the Smithsonian Museum of Asian Art. The Golden Harvest has led to Tree Routed, an interactive film platform globally connecting personal heritage stories about trees (in production). Alia co-edited the book Re-Orienting the Middle East: Film and Digital Media Where the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean Meet (Indiana University Press, 2024). In 2010, she co-founded the Zayed University Middle East Film Festival (ZUMEFF), the longest-running film festival in the Gulf. She currently teaches at NYU Abu Dhabi.
Moza Almazrouei uses sculpture, film, and writing as a vehicle to explore material and mineral politics embedded within urban spaces. The basis of her practice is prompted by writings of feminist geographers like Deborah Dixon and writers like Gabrielle Hechte, who use the scale of the mineral as a window to read broader regional geopolitics.Moza Almazrouei completed her BA at the Slade School of Fine Arts in 2022 and MA in Research Architecture at Goldsmiths University in 2023. Moza received the Graham Robertson prize in 2022 and Best international documentary award at Focus Wales Film Festival in 2024.
About AAVS Dubai
The AA VS Climate Cartographies is committed to exploring the longue durée of climate change at heritage sites by deploying cartographic thinking to create new maps that capture unexplored relations in our environment.
A glitch, often perceived as an error or disruption, serves as an unanticipated opportunity for insight and growth. Supported by Alserkal Arts Foundation, the AA Visiting School programme in Dubai explores the undefined or the in-between through situated spatial sonic practices that encompass listening, translation, and transcription.
The School’s agenda in Dubai examines the intersection of climate change and heritage, while considering innovative ways of representing these themes in and through the medium of sound. Along with a cohort of 20 architects, designers, cultural practitioners and artists, we will engage with research and artistic practices to examine the region’s complex history, paying close attention to our experience of sound and our relationship with the land.
Apart from our closed workshops with the AAVS cohort, the programme includes a series of public sessions where we invite you to join the conversation with experts from the fields of archaeology, museology, heritage studies, and contemporary art.