A Place to live
by Sana Ahmadizadeh
portfolio special mention call 'Urbanautica Institute Awards 2023', 2023
Category: Nature, Environment and Perspectives
I live in Ahvaz, in Khuzestan province which supplies most of Iran’s oil demand. Ahvaz is at the peak of its environmental crisis due to drought in the wetlands, Karun river water transmission, and dust storms; This environmental crisis has become more complicated due to the war and continuous drought in Iraq and economic pressures brought about by re-enforced nuclear sanctions on Iran. I went to the north of Iran for some time until I recovered from my respiratory problems my mother immigrated thirty-six years ago after the Iran-Iraq war had broken out and the bombardment of her city. “A Place to Live” is a personal journey about my emotions and relationships with the environment where I stayed until the partial improvement of my health. The inevitable similarities between my life and my mother’s life created a new world for me, forming an unceasing flow of associations.
also from Urbanautica Institute Awards 2023