Within the context of cultural heritage being destroyed by conflict, citing Aleppo as a recent case, Hakawati Retold focuses on using intangible media to construct events that condense and overlay spatial narratives onto new contemporary contexts. The event is built around an augmented soundscape that reconstructs the lost Aleppo Souq, bringing about different voices and building new pathways for the retelling of stories. It looks at heritage as a prospective activity to understand the different forces at play in urban spaces and make counter forms of testimony audible. By broadcasting events and narratives around Aleppo's social and political conflicts, Hakawati Retold focuses on building discourses around these conflicts.
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