Article by Saphinaz Amal Naguib in TFK

Object Matters-member Saphinaz Amal Naguib has published an article (in Norwegian) in a special issue (Festschrift for Bjarne Rogan at the University of Oslo) of the journal Tidsskrift for Kulturforskning (issue 2, 2016). The article entitled “Når veggene taler: Gatekunst, graffiti, kalligraffiti og den arabiske våren i Egypt” (When walls speak: Street art, graffiti, calligraffiti and the Arab Spring in …

Memory and its materiality: the crafting of heritage – by Saphinaz-Amal Naguib

Abstract of paper presented in Prague at the 1st Object Matters-workshop, 10-13 December, 2015. Memory and its materiality is about the transformation of fragments of material culture, unpretentious things, into heritage. Materiality does not merely refer to the material properties of things, their type, shape, measurements, texture and style. It also points to their relations to people and to what …