Outreach & DisseminationOmani Towns: Tradition of the Desert and the Sea On Tuesday 2nd July 2019, ArCHIAM’s Director Prof Soumyen Bandyopadhyay lectured on “Omani Towns: Tradition of the Desert and the Sea” at the National Museum Oman. The history of the Arabian Peninsula has often been conceptualised in terms of a duality that once existed between…
Outreach & DisseminationINTBAU World Congress On 28th November 2018 Dr Giamila Quattrone presented at the INTBAU World Congress, a biennial forum bringing together global perspectives and knowledge for discussion and debate of pressing issues facing the built environment in communities around the world. In her paper Nurturing Identities, Empowering Communities: Adaptive Reuse and Restoration at…
Outreach & DisseminationThe Islamic Port of al-Balid (Oman), between Land and Sea: Place of Trade, Exchange, Diversity, and Coexistence On 13th September 2018, ArCHIAM’s Director Prof Soumyen Bandyopadhyay lectured on “The Islamic Port of al-Balid (Oman), between Land and Sea: Place of Trade, Exchange, Diversity, and Coexistence” at The Aga Khan University-Institute for the Study…
Outreach & DisseminationChanging communities and discarded landscapes The paper is a contribution to the 2013-16 PRIN “RE-CYCLE Italy. New Life Cycles for Architecture and Infrastructure of City and Landscape”. Building on work commissioned by the Ministry of Heritage and Culture of Oman towards the delivery of Heritage Management and Development Master Plans for the traditional…
Outreach & DisseminationCastral Networks of Islamic Mallorca: Fortification and Identity New data on the fortifications of Islamic Mallorca is beginning to present an introspective image of this tribally settled island. The 300 years of Islamic occupation witnessed a continuous influx of tribal and ethnic groups resulting from the political upheavals taking place on the Spanish…
Outreach & DisseminationIntegrating heritage management with development: Sustainable conservation and developmental guidelines for Harat as-Saybani, Barkat al-Mawz, Oman The paper presented the outputs of the Documentation and Heritage Management Project for Harat as-Saybani, a traditional settlement in mud-brick in the oasis town of Barkat al-Mawz, Central Oman. The research project aim was to create significant…
Outreach & DisseminationSurvey and trial excavation at Izki/Yemen (Al-Dakhliyah/Oman) Professor Soumyen Bandyopadhyay, Professor Paul Yule and Dr Giamila Quattrone presented the findings of a joint fieldwork campaign in Oman, which was carried out by the Nottingham Trent University team n March 2011 and again in March-April 2012, to document the architecture and social history of…
Outreach & DisseminationShrinking settlements between permanence and change: a cross-cultural perspective Built heritage has been subjected to unprecedented demographic shifts which have jeopardized cultural and material continuity. This paper is concerned with “shrinking” settlements resulting from population shift towards urban centres that provide advanced economic and employment prospects and modern amenities. The paper argues for…