8. Sweating Assets:
   On Climate Conditioning
   and Ecology


            Publication design, 2023Sweating Assets: On Climate Conditioning and Ecology “explores the unique climatic conditions of extreme heat and humidity alongside current demands for comfort in Bahrain. The exhibition traverses scales—from the domestic to the territorial—highlighting the position of cooling infrastructure in relation to a wider ecosystem. Sweating Assets is an adaptive means of resource management, that entails working with existing systems to their best capacities rather than starting anew. It considers our built environments, infrastructure, and relationships as a complex, resource-rich, man-made landscape subject to cannibalization. By no means encouraging wasteful usage of cooling systems, the possibilities (rather than solutions) made through their necessary consumption are uncovered.“
        Publication design with Rabeeya Abduljabbar for Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities at the Bahrain National Pavillion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023, curated by Latifa Alkhayat and Maryam Aljomairi.

        In-pavilion photo credits: Saleh Jamsheer (2023), Maryam Aljomairi (2023)