Mértola, museology and earthen architecture
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Located in Portugal’s Southeastern region of Alentejo, for the last 30 years Mértola has been carrying out a museological project circulated by mul?ple agencies, whereupon both earthen architecture and the Islamic descriptor plays a leading role.
Mértola’s Heritage Defence
Associa?on (ADPM) 1980-‐
Mértola’s Archaeological
Field (CAM) 1978-‐
Mértola’s Town Hall (CMM) 1976-‐
Delega?on of Bento J. Caraça
professional school (EBJCM) 1992-‐
Mértola’s Museum Town Project Main Actors (1976-‐2001)
ALSUD Professional School
Coopera?ve 2008 -‐
Mértola’s Town Hall (CMM)
Mértola’s Archaeological
Field (CAM)
Mértola’s Heritage Defence
Associa?on (ADPM)
Mértola’s Museum Town Project Main Actors (2001 -‐ )
Mértola’s Islamic Fes?val (biennial, 2001-‐ )
Discover Islamic Art (2004-‐ )
AVEC Network Associaca?on des villes Européennes
de la Culture
Centre of Islamic and Mediterranean Studies (CEIM, 2007-‐ )
Associa?on to Coimbra and Porto Universi?es Archaeological Studies Center (CEAUCP, 2010-‐ )
Master in Islamic Portugal And the Mediterranean (UAlg, 2008-‐10)
6th Congress on Earthen Architecture in Portugal/
9th Ibero-‐American Congress on Earthen Architecture and Construc?on
From my place at the conference room, the wooden beams out in the open (A) impelled me to unfasten myself and check on the derelict at CAM’s itself; poe?cally detached, the non-‐human usufructuaries, from the stork’s nest (D) to the shrubby actant (B), in addi?on to the perceivable precedence of the structural detail of the original wall (E) and of its gra.ing (C). [17/09/11]
«A museum controversy is a sign of resistance in the network that links the museum to the communi?es it serves and of the need for a new process of transla?on.» (Phillips:302)
Ruin as contact zone (Clifford 1997:2
08;213)
Mértola, 2010
The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Any house which is not visited by guests is not visited by angels either.’ (in Rayshahri:660)