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WHO WE ARE

WE UNDERSTAND OUR CULTURAL CONNOTATIONS

DLALA is an interdisciplinary cultural advisory dedicated to harnessing the transformative power of cultural expressions, meanings, people, practices and values on national and regional levels

 

Based on the given context, we provide a support line of content building, management development, and policy making of cultural heritage and the creative industries, including tangible and intangible heritage, visual arts and crafts, museums, tourism, among other cultural domains

Our goal is to support partners with cultural communication, capacity-building, curatorial strategies, project designing, while uncovering growth opportunities and measuring impact. One of our niche expertise is providing assistance in implementing UNESCO heritage conventions concerning the nomination process for inscription


Often collaborating with our partners to blend multisectorial and multivarious perspectives together, we built a unique interdisciplinary cultural advisory that employs synergic approaches and tools to understand their unique situations and develop insightful and actionable solutions

Taking the lens of interdisciplinary cultural advisory, we deliver exceptional and personalised consultancy offerings in national and international understandings and implementations of arts, heritage, tourism, museums, and cultural communication

CONCEPT DESIGNING
& PLANNING

INTERPRETATION
& BUILDING PROGRAMMES

GOVERNANCE
& INSTITUTIONALISATION

RESEARCH
& SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS

Strategy & Vision

Conceptual Establishment

Transnational Alignments

Collections & Curatorial Design

Actionable Roadmaps

Impact Assessment

Benchmarking & Reconciliation

Organisational Reform

Management Development

Policies & Processes

Building Consensus

Regulatory & Compliance

Content Creation

Capacity Building

Contextual Approach

Embodiment & Meaning-making

Documentation & Inventorying

Exhibitions & Festivals

Academic & Descriptive Writing

Data Collection & Analysis

Narration & Story-telling

Cultural Monitoring

Participatory Engagement

Exploratory & Ethnographic Research

WHAT WE BESPOKE

NICH CULTURAL OFFERINGS

Heritagisation Discourse Network

contextual notions of ‘WHOSE’ HERITAGE

The Heritagisation Discourse Network (HDN) is a forward-thinking research space dedicated to fostering a critical and collaborative approach to the challenges of heritagisation and commodification in the Arab region and its neighbouring areas

 

The network negotiates the values of authenticity, identity, and tradition in the modernised approaches and rapid implementations of heritagisation as a reviving tool for the lost cultural heritage and ongoing cultural tourism driven preservation initiatives. Our cause is to serve as a trusted source of knowledge, constructive criticism, and quality research for those passionate about conserving contextualised cultural heritage amidst inevitable modernisation, rapid preservation, and global economic/political pressures

This space is operated as DLALA's research arm allocated to cultivating dialogue among researchers and scholars to ignite debates on the prevailing top-down approaches to heritagisation within the Arab Gulf region. Our mission is to promote an inclusive and participatory framework that amplifies the voices of local and marginalised communities, ensuring their perspectives are integral to the heritagisation processes

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NARRATING CULTURAL CONNOTATIONS THAT BRIDGE, PROTECT AND TRANSMIT
A SENSE OF PLACE, PEOPLE AND IDENTITY

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