About this Event
From Warehouse to Table: Circulation, Climate, and Production in Alserkal
the walk will frame the district not simply as a cluster of galleries, but as a working ecosystem shaped by adaptive reuse, logistical flows, environmental control, and forms of production that range from exhibition-making to food preparation.
Throughout the walk, the emphasis would be less on explaining individual artworks and more on reading the built environment (walls, thresholds, services, and circulation) and drawing parallels between architectural systems and food production. The intention is to offer an alternative way of engaging with Alserkal: as a designed system where cultural, spatial, and food practices intersect.
Azza Aboualam is an Emirati architect and educator. She is an Assistant Professor at the College of Arts and Creative Enterprises at Zayed University, Dubai, UAE, and a Co-Founder and Director of Research Principal at Holesum Studio, an interdisciplinary architecture and design practice based in New York, USA, and Sharjah, UAE. She co-founded the studio in 2021 a few years after graduating from the Yale School of Architecture. Azza is the first Emirati female curator of the National Pavilion UAE for the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2025.
Her scholarly interests include the intersection of memory, architecture, and society in the Middle East and North Africa region. Aboualam worked with the UAE Ministry of Culture’s Architecture Initiative, and her field research, sketches, and writing were published in the book In Search of Spaces of Coexistence: An Architect’s Journey (2019), edited by Dr. Alamira Reem Al Hashimi and Adina Hempel. She also contributed research to Building Sharjah (2021), edited by Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi and Todd Reisz, and Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai (2020), written by Todd Reisz. While working in Sharjah’s Department of Public Works, Aboualam managed the design and construction of large-scale projects such as the Aga Khan Award–winning Wasit Wetland Center.
Time: 4PM
Meeting Point: The Yard, in front of Concrete
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Yard Alserkal Avenue, 4 17th Street, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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