RE-PLAY / AFRICAN CROSSROADS 2018
Stall transplant from Jemaa El Fna to Villa Jenna in Marrakesh, where RE-PLAY was presented during African Crossroads 2018, an event by Hivos.
Location: Marrakesh, Morocco
Program: Research on Play and the City
Area: NA
Client: NA
Status: Completed, 2018
Collaborators:
Research co-funding: Stimuleringsfonds Creative Industries
RE-PLAY is a Research on Play and/in/with the City that discusses the broader definition of the word play as it encompasses the notions of engaging in an activity for enjoyment and recreation, being cooperative, participating but also as a noun, play means the space in or through which a mechanism can or does move => a room for manoeuvre, a margin, leeway.
The booklet is an image-based compilation of contrasting practices or theories about Play in the urban environment (Huizinga, Lefebvre, Constant, van Eyck, Matta-Clark, Corbusier and others) accompanied by a question, quote or statement that invites the reader to reflect further on the topic and form their own conviction.
RE-PLAY was presented at the 1st Edition of African Crossroads that took place in December 2018 in Marrakesh.
Inspired by the idea that the seminar was being held just outside the city, in a sort of autarkic and private bubble, NoRA proposed to sample Marrakesh’s most iconic public space - the Jemaa el Fna square - on-site by installing one of its typical snails stalls in the very polished garden of the seminar’s venue. With its combination of shading, seating and lighting, this simple piece of furniture immediately became a natural meet-up spot for impromptu gatherings where participants would come together throughout the day and co-create a shared space where ideas were exchanged and conversations had. The stall drew discussions from inside the walls into the outdoors.
Full PDF of RE-PLAY available for download here.
photograph © Farah Abdelbaki.
photograph © African Crossroads/Hivos.