Caravane Earth Foundation presents a bamboo Majlis to the gardens of the Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore
The Majlis undergoing construction at San Giorgio Maggiore.
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.-Caravane Earth Foundation presents a unique bamboo Majlis to the gardens of the Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice for the 2021 Architecture Biennale from 22 May 21 November 2021. The project is one of the official Collateral Events that reflect the 2021 Architecture Biennales theme of How will we live together?
Majlis is a word that originated in Pre-Islamic Arabia, meaning council or gathering place. Traditionally, a majlis is a place where people come together to discuss local events and issues, exchange news, socialise, and deepen their connection with each other. Inspired by nomadic architecture, the Majlis is designed by the internationally acclaimed bamboo architects Simón Vélez and Stefana Simic. It is wrapped in textiles handwoven in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco by a women
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The Lampedusa cross is made from pieces of a boat that was wrecked on 11 October 2013 near the Italian island of Lampedusa, close to the coast of Tunisia. The overcrowded boat carrying 466 migrants from Somalia and Eritrea caught fire, capsized and sank at a time when there was no official maritime rescue service. Three hundred eleven refugees fleeing persecution and seeking refuge in Europe were drowned. Inhabitants of Lampedusa helped to save the lives of 155 others.
The island’s carpenter, Francesco Tuccio, met some of the survivors at his church and, moved by their plight, made individual crosses for each person. Unable to make a difference to their situation, the best he felt he could do was to use his skills as a carpenter to fashion each a cross from the boat’s wreckage as a reflection on their salvation from the sea and hope for the future. These crosses also reflected the fate of many migrants.
The Dutch Government Just Promised to Return Any Stolen Colonial-Era Objects in Its Collections Back to Their Countries of Origin
The government has agreed to adopt recommendation issued by the country s top museum experts.
The Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam. Photo courtesy of the
Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam
The government of the Netherlands has agreed to put in place guidelines that could make it a global leader in restituting colonial-era objects.
The document, published in October, called for a “recognition that an injustice was done to the local populations of former colonial territories when cultural objects were taken against their will,” and recommended those artifacts be returned to the former colonies.