Theme: Heatwave
In the past ten years across the globe, temperatures have broken records of heat consecutively bringing one heat wave after the other. The effects of these heatwaves have been felt particularly strongly in the Gulf region which was already known to hold extremely high temperatures in the summer months.
The people of Bahrain would traditionally move to the desert areas of the south during the winter months and back to coastal areas or closer to inland water sources during the hot summer months, this extended to various occupations as well, with agricultural workers, craftspeople, and traders frequently relocating to optimize their work throughout the seasons. This seasonal migratory pattern was common across the Gulf and in the absence of cooling and warming technologies, would enable communities to live seasonally in the most favorable local climatic conditions. This migratory pattern was also repeated at the scale of the house, where in the summer months people would sleep on the rooftops to profit from the coastal breezes the best.
