Sudan, Khartoum
FC-01x Future Cities (Self-Paced) - Exercise 1 : "Making the Invisible - Visible"
Uploaded on 2018-11-18 by Alaa Abu Baker
1- Near the greatest Mosque. I focused on the activities that go around the mosque. The picture visualizes coloured kiosks in green and yellow, two men repairing a taxi car parked in the kerb, others discussing something next to the white car parked also in kerb, another popular activity common in Sudan "the tea lady", sitting under the shadows of the "Neem "tree and serving her costumers. 2/A-the kiosks shown in the picture sells newspapers, school and office tools etc. Its all written on the kiosks visualized as written information , but without observing the real action taking a place in the picture, that means it does happen but at different times. B/ The tea lady actually gets more customers at night, because of the street lamps in the place, she gets to continue her work at night. 3- The tea lady for example is a full time worker, whose work extends from the early morning to late hours at night, with different flows of visitors. In future urban planning, this phenomenon of "tea ladies" should be taken seriously, its one of the important characteristics of the Sudanese streets that has deep roots in the common traditions among the society.