4 research outputs found
Rejuvenating the Core of Umm Al-Fahem: Highlighting the importance of the core of Umm Al-Fahem, and how to make it socially integrated and spatially accessible
No full textUmm Al-Fahem is an Arab city in Israel, a city of social, geographic, historic, and political importance. Once a small village, Umm Al Fahem developed to be the third-largest Arab city in the state of Israel. It endured several hegemony stages of occupation and mandates, which shaped its socio-spatial systems through the years. The social and spatial features created a system of segregation and inaccessibility within the different scales of the city, mainly reflected in the core of the city. Therefore, given the long history of the city and its constant unplanned spatial growth, and its important cultural familial heritage, the city core gradually became impenetrable to those who do not live in it, socially and spatially. It became stagnated in order to prevent unauthorized access to it, only readable and open to those who culturally belong, resulting in the need for rejuvenation.This project’s main focus is to understand the city and its people, create intervention strategies in order to rejuvenate the core of Umm Al-Fahem to be socially integrated and spatially accessible on different scales. Through the medium of investigating the history and context of the city and proposing possible minimal and extreme spatial intervention scenarios, this project will be examining and answering the main question:”To what extent can the socio-spatial strategies of rejuvenation make the stagnated core of Umm Al-Fahem be socially integrated and spatially accessible?”.Complex CitiesArchitecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Complex Citie
Les enjeux de la communication des services publics en Algérie: Étude descriptive et analytique de la littérature scientifique connexe
No full textThis article examines the challenges of public service communication in Algeria, both at national and local level, starting by presenting some philosophical principles of the concept, then passing to the diagnosis of the state of play of this communication in Algeria, and finally by setting out the challenges and recommendations for tackling them and giving impetus to this strategic function. The study relied on the descriptive analytical approach by extrapolating a number of related studies, and relying on the observation tool and studying some related normative documents.The study concluded by identifying a number of challenges faced by modern organizations, which are entirely linked to the management model based on participation and governance, the enhancement and strengthening of human capital, in addition to the problem of the decentralization of the communication of local authorities and the relationship to political practice, leading to the issue of digitization and modernization of the administration. Finally, to suggest that public organizations adopt the responsible communication model, concerned with enhancing the organization’s relationship with its environment, as well as with its stakeholders.Cet article examine les enjeux de la communication des services publics en Algérie, tant au niveau national que local, en présentant les principes philosophiques du concept, puis en effectuant un diagnostic de son état des lieux, et enfin, en exposant les enjeux et les recommandations permettant de donner une poussée à cette fonction stratégique. L’étude s’est appuyée sur l’approche analytique descriptive en extrapolant un certain nombre d’études connexes, et en s’appuyant sur l’outil d’observation, en analysant certains documents normatifs y afférents.L’étude a conclu en identifiant un certain nombre d’enjeux auxquels sont confrontées les organisations modernes, qui sont dans leur totalité liés au modèle de gestion basé sur la participation et la gouvernance, la valorisation et le renforcement du capital humain, en plus du problème de la décentralisation de la communication des collectivités locales et le rapport à la pratique politique, débouchant sur l’enjeu de la numérisation et de la modernisation de l’administration. Enfin, de suggérer aux organisations publiques d’adopter le modèle de communication responsable, soucieux de valoriser la relation de l’organisation avec son environnement, ainsi qu’avec ses parties prenantes
Tunisia–The Imprisonment of Fahem Boukadous (Part One of a series)
No full textTo most Americans with the exception of those few who, for whatever reason, have an attachment to the North African country of Tunisia, the name Fahem Boukadous, foreign to American ears, means nothing. It means a good deal more to Reporters Without Borders” and to the US State Department that actually issued a statement (half way down the page) on his behalf, to the US intelligence agencies and military that have carefully followed the Spring, 2008 uprising in the Tunisian region of Gafsa–deemed the most extensive and militant social protest in that country’s history in the past quarter century.
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Obtuse, Flitting by, and Nevertheless There – Image Archives in Practice
No full textOver the past thirty years, the status of the archive as well as the state of what we call “documentary” have dominated discussions in and around photography. Although it is now commonplace to presume the objectifying gesture of documentary photography, the complex question of how, as a working artist/photographer, to approach the archive has not yet been adequately addressed. The purpose of this research is to raise questions about how, after the critique of the documentary image, the artist/photographer addresses, indeed, finds the archive. I am starting with the assumption that the archive is not only a place of storage but also a place of production, where our relation to the past is materialised and where our present writes itself into the future; thus, accordingly, I understand the archive as a place of negotiation and writing.
After the problems of the archive have been identified theoretically, the practice in the archive still encounters challenges and contradictions. This project explores those difficulties that remain within the practice in and around the archive, even after the critique has been stated. It is not about simply extending the critique, but finding an archive and the practice with it.
I am approaching these questions as a practitioner. As an artist and photographer, I am concerned with two practices in relation to archives: working with existing archives, and making work that will itself be archived. The point raised by those two activities is not to find or create another institutional archive per se, but to develop an archival practice in which the set of problems that the archives produce is in fact part of the process one engages in. Hence the work is a theoretical and practical set of experiments that may never be complete and conclusive
