Design Nineveh

In this series of workshops, I’ve invited families visiting the British Museum Great Court to discover aspects of, and get inspired by, the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh: a city where we discovered the largest general library in the history of humanity.

After visiting a research wall (part of my art installation Library of Humanity) where they can discover motifs and images from the ancient city of Nineveh and texts written by British Museum curators expressing how they perceive Nineveh, participants were invited to imagine and design the city in their own way.

Visitors used paper cutting, collage and pastel colours to express their visions and bring this disappeared city to life, creating diverse visual versions of what this city can represent for them today. Every visitor created one page and contributed to the growing participatory art installation that I presented in the Great Court, existing in conversation with the exhibition I am Ashurbanipal.