STREET ART MOVEMENT IN QATAR *for assessment*
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Street art is always a part of your travel experience, expresses the deliberation and contemplation on social structure 👥, and semiotic interaction of the place you visit. The dialogue of street art in the digital age 📲with urban interaction has expanded and is now multi-leveled from the individual intervention to the social commentary of the contemporary world of commercialism.
In this blog, we are touring around Qatar urban spaces to visit state-of-the-art W⚽rld Cup 2⚽22 stadiums and appreciate the story behind their ideas.
Let's start with Al Bayt Stadium
This arena is covered with a giant tent structure 🎪, designed to honour the people and their ways of living during times of scarcity. The traditional tent, Bayt al sha’ar ⛺, of nomadic people in Qatar and the Gulf region. This true nomad’s tent is portable!!! And hence sustainable 🌱and suitable for the desert environment - quick and easy to erect and deconstruct, and light enough to be carried by a pack of animals.
Its target is to reach both LEED and GSAS ratings and to reduce carbon footprint 🐾as a concept of ‘Carbon Neutral World Cup 2022’.
Welcome to Al Thumama Stadium
Located 6km south of Doha, the design represents a woven cap worn by Arab males ‘Gahfiya’ which is part of the traditional clothing of Qatar.
This!! Al Wakrah Stadium
This bold, futuristic stadium is located in the city of Al Wakrah, reflects the innovative and ambitious spirit of Qatar and the seafaring past 🌊of Al Wakrah. The stadium was designed by Zaha Hadid, who was inspired by the graceful flowing curves of the sails of traditional boats, dhows 🚣.
Khalifa International Stadium!!!!!!!!!
Was built in 1976 in Al Rayyan, and has long been the fundamental of the country’s sporting tradition. It is located right next to the Aspire tower (find more about the iconic Aspire tower 🗼in my previous blog), and recognised by its dual arches, sweeping over the facade.
It's Qatar Foundation Stadium
The design is influenced by historical Islamic architecture and geometric shapes 🔸🔹, the facade features reflective diamond-esque geometrical patterns which change the colour with the sun’s movement across the sky, just like diamonds💠.
These stadiums are art movements displayed on the streets, representing historical, futuristic, and prosperous aspects of Qatar which will certainly be the tourist attractions and a reason for visiting Qatar 🛫as soon as the country opens for visitors, by then it will tell a fascinating story about the country. Yet, at the moment, all we can do is not to take the digital global community for granted and GET READY to be your best version of the globe trotter 🛤.
Hi Gorbua!
ReplyDeleteThis is a great blog for learning various art movements on Qatar's streets! It is informative in that there are six different stadiums, be it historical, futuristic, cultural, or environmental. The blog engage well with the questions for Week 4——street arts. From my understanding, different stadiums represent different ideas from their designers. For example, the Khalifa International Stadium which the blogger tag nine exclamation mark for, is highly related with the angle of the blog: sports. It not only represents the sports tradition but also becomes the tourist attraction by its unique design.
It is readably, with cute and vivid emoji again, and with some highlights by different colors. I like the way the blogger expresses her feeling and attitude in advantage of various formats. And there are adequate pictures and links for me to learn about these street arts.
If there would be one aspect of the blog that could be made even better, the blogger could choose one of these street arts and have a deeper discussion on it. While for the others, there could be some reduction, to make the blog more detailed as well as concise.
In short, it is a nice experience to read the blog, and I really want to see some of the stadiums, especially the Al Wakrah Stadium if I have a chance. Because I personally want to learn more about seafaring history and the ambitious spirit it represents!
Vienna: The writer uses stadiums as the subject of her blog on the theme of street art instead of graffiti, which matches with her angle on World Cup 2022, and makes her blog more interesting. The blog is informative and can be read as being informed since she covers descriptions of the stadiums in this blog and backs them up with references as hyperlinks. For example, in the introduction, she explains how street art has evolved in the digital age, which can get the readers to reflect on how they’ve been viewing street art before reading this blog. It engages with this week’s questions and concepts well because she picked one category to focus on where she explains what the stadiums are, and answered the last question in her conclusion. However, the engagement could be improved if she talked about which stadium was her favourite and elaborated more on the reasons behind her choice. Her inclusion of emojis, hyperlinks and images are just right, as they make her blog sound more casual, which fits the criteria of being a blogpost. This blog has inspired me to think outside the box to pick a street art that is beyond graffiti, and it also piqued my interest in learning more about Qatar.
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