The Greenhouse on the roof, Hay Mohammadi, Casablanca, 2018

25 October - 15 December 2018

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🕠 Every Thursday from 5pm to 9pm from 25 October 2018.
On the roof of the Initiative Urbaine association 
9, rue Ibn Al Baittar, Hay Mohammadi, Casablanca, Morocco

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// PROGRAM //

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Thursday 25.10.2018:
Neighbourhood cultural spaces | THE CASE OF HAY MOHAMMADI

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5pm | Presentation of the Casablanca Collective Museum and the Rooftop Greenhouse programme. 
🥣☕🍪 Tea, coffee and cakes

6pm | The "Urban Mantes" collective presents: the RADIO and the JOURNAL by Hay Mohammadi. Resumption of the workshops on journalism (supervised by Radi Omar) and radio production (supervised by Abdellah M. Hassak).

6:20pm | "Dar Chabab", a documentary project directed by Reda Lahmouid (Free Monkeyz production), a retrospective of the Hay Mohammadi Youth Centre.

6:45pm | Registration for participatory projects and coffee break. "3lach el car majach men fes?" fundraising campaign, project by Mélanie Yvon 

7pm | Presentation of "Septième Porte", a documentary project about cinema in Morocco from the 1950s to the 1980s, directed by Catherine Poncin.

7:45pm | ROUND TABLE: What place for neighbourhood cultural spaces? From the 1970s to today. With the participation of artists, intellectuals and residents.

Thursday 08.11.2018 :

 

Art and Architecture | MAQUETES AND THE POETICS OF BRUTALISM

 

5:30pm | Welcome and discussion 
🥣☕🍪 Tea, coffee and cakes

 

6pm | Presentation of the Collective Museum and THE GREENHOUSE on the Roof program.
Presentation by Chaimaà Rochdi and Fariji Mohamed.

 

6:15pm | THE "ART AND RESEARCH" PROJECTS OF THE COLLECTIVE MUSEUM 
Presentation and talking chaired by Samba Soumbounou (CasaMémoire)

 

6:20pm | MAMMA. The map of Brutalism in Casablanca.
MAMMA. (Memory of Modern Moroccan Architects) is a collective dedicated to the presentation of Morocco's post-independence architectural heritage. (Imad Dahmani and El Moumni Lahbib).
After an introduction to "Brutalist" architecture, they presented their "Brutalist Map of Casablanca" project, which aims to showcase this style from the 60s and 70s, which is still little known to the people of Casablanca. The project had also been developed through a series of workshops and round tables in public schools in the مقاطعة عين الشق Arrondissement Ain chock district, aimed at raising awareness of architecture and heritage.

 

7:45pm | Registration for participatory projects and coffee break. + Launch of the collection campaign "3lach el car majach men fes?

7pm | Alaa Halifi: "El Fida, between yesterday and today".
Alaa Halifi is a young architecture student at the School of Architecture in Casablanca, with a passion for art, literature and social sciences.

The project aims to revive the memory of El Fida, one of Casablanca's oldest avenues, through research into archives, documents, photographs and building models. The group, led by Alaa Halifi, will work along three main lines: spaces, events and figures.

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7:20pm | DÉBAT

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Thursday 15.11.2018 :

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THE COLLECTIVE MUSEUM'S "ART AND RESEARCH" PROJECTS | WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS

5:30pm | Welcome, discussions. 
🥣☕🍪 Tea, coffee and cake

6pm | Presentation of the Musée Collectif and the Rooftop Greenhouse Programme
Presentation and discussion chaired by Saad Botraby.

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6:15pm | Itineraries and short guided tours: a workshop 

The itineraries, routes and trajectories are the result of collaborative research and mapping carried out by around twenty participants with a wide range of skills, backgrounds and interests. Their 'places', uncovered, narrated, shared, layered and linked, gradually form so many routes to be explored. 

proposed by Flore Grassiot, architect and urban planner with the Topoï collective, and the participants of the workshop.

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6:30pm | L'KHAYRIA: an experimental cross-disciplinary theatre project by Fariji Mohamed (director and set designer), Hosni Almoukhlis (scriptwriter). Yassine Rengui (direction of the actors), Manon de Matauco and Said El Haddaji (contemporary dance), Abdellah M. Hassak (sound environment).
The aim of the project is to trace the history of the Ain Chock orphanage, which was destroyed by the authorities, through a collective creative process involving actors from the Ain Chock youth centre - the BLACK STAR club. 

The young people will reflect, imagine and stage a "fictional" historical trial based on the history of this building, which was destroyed by the authorities in 2016. As part of this project, in a workshop led by artist Amélie Giacomini (July 2018), the young people participated in the construction of a model of the former orphanage in the district, based on photos and observations on the spot.

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6:45pm | Registration for participatory projects and coffee break.

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7pm | The "Derb Al Aghani" project, a musical anthropology project proposed by Farid Ghrich, a freelance journalist.

The project aims to collect the sung memory of Casablanca's districts. As part of the Collective Museum's workshops, the journalist guides participants in identifying and researching songs that tell stories about Casablanca, its districts and its inhabitants. This research project aims to preserve and reactivate the individual, family and collective memory of these districts.

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7:15pm Musical interlude

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7:30pm | Radio creation and sound archiving, by Abdellah M. Hassak, a sound artist whose creative process is nourished by a series of research projects, particularly around the archive and the soundscape of cities undergoing social and cultural change. 
The participatory workshops held in the old medina, Ain Chock and Hay Mohammadi have helped to raise citizens' awareness of the need for a new approach to urban planning.

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Thursday 29.11.2018:

THE "ART AND RESEARCH" PROJECTS OF THE COLLECTIVE MUSEUM | ART, ARCHITECTURE & ARCHAEOLOGY

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5:30pm | Presentation of the Collective Museum and THE GRENHOUSE on the roof program
Tea, coffee and cakes

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6pm | THE "ART AND RESEARCH" PROJECTS OF THE COLLECTIVE MUSEUM

Presentations and discussions chaired by Chaimaa Rochdi

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6:15pm | Presentation of the Collective Museum and the greenhouse on the roof | Tea, coffee and cake

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6:30pm | "Where does the rhino sleep tonight?"

For the project "Where does the rhinoceros sleep tonight?", developed as part of the Collective Museum in Casablanca, artists Nourredine Ezzaraf and Lisa Stewart propose to open a temporary creative space near the "rhinoceros cave" (Hay Hassani /Oulfa). This shared space will host a series of multi-disciplinary workshops to explore and invent a collective imagination around the rhino. They will work with materials and stories collected from this "great" site of ancient prehistory in Morocco. In a creative process of reappropriating the city and urban space through fiction and poetry, they will link Casablanca's prehistoric past with its present, marked by urban sprawl, housing problems and social justice.

Nourredine Ezarraf and Lisa Stewart

 

7pm |  Registration for participatory projects and coffee break.

 

7:30pm | Housni Zbaghdi and Sofiane Margoube : Philosophy for children: "3lach? 3lach lla? / Why, why not?

The speakers will share their experiences of philosophy workshops for young people at the Fatema El Fihrya secondary school and the Bachar Bno Bard primary school, two public establishments in the Ain Chock district, as part of the Casablanca Collective Museum project. Using collected objects, maps and personal accounts, the children bring to light the stories that changed the world of their parents and grandparents. Through dialogue, the young people begin to distance themselves from certain topoi (commonplaces) that structure their experience of the city, the space and the past.

 

7:20pm | DEBATE

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THE GREENHOUSE is supported by the INSTITUT FRANÇAIS.

The Collective Museum is supported by the Fondation Drosos.