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Are we just boat geeks?

Hannah Lewis

Jul 20, 2022

How a project about boats connects the past with the future...

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From bad translations to biases and blind spots: the challenges of knowledge

After several years of gathering knowledge – sometimes racing against time to record it while the holders of Iraq’s traditional boatbuilding skills are still alive – our work is now shifting into a new phase, in which a key objective is to share what we’ve learned. We have accumulated a

Jul 19, 2022 2 min read

Ark-Raising: the art of pulling together

In 2017-18, after the founding of Safina Projects CIC, the Ark Re-imagined project grew in scope and became ‘An Ark for Iraq’. No longer just a one-man expedition, but a collaborative art and heritage project involving whole communities. Energised by his experience of restoring the disappearing craft of Guffa coracle-making

Jul 18, 2022 2 min read

Expeditionary art and the search for home

“Home was the centre of the world because it was the place where a vertical line crossed with a horizontal one. The vertical line was a path leading upwards to the sky and downwards to the underworld. The horizontal line represented the traffic of the world, all the possible roads

Jul 17, 2022 2 min read

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