New Territories for Old Architecture: Nomadic History as a Design Strategy in the Redevelopment Urban Project for the Kadhimiya Historical Site, Baghdad, Iraq
NAJLAA KAREEM University of Cincinnati
The purpose of this paper is to explore how the pos- In this research, the main goal is not to refute or confirm the static sibility of using history as a dynamic, intensive force and fixated image of history that is proposed by the winning entry, but in an urban design thinking process can escape the rather to scrutinize the way in which this representational image of his- historicis and re resentational i age functionar tory becomes operative and dynamic. This research is a critical analysis to ards a re engineered creati e historical archi- about a transitional and productive return of history, “a nomadic his- tory.” The term nomadic history’ is coined by the Deleuze scholar Craig tectural dialogue co aring t o e isting ur