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Tashkeel and the Creation of the Skateable Art Movement

RIDE Channel2 skaters recommend it · 2 mentions, 2013 to 2015
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35K views · 13 years ago · Documentary

RIDE Channel short doc on Tashkeel Art Studio in Dubai and its skateable sculpture that spells "art" in Arabic. Covers the push to treat skateparks as public art.

Why skaters like it

Worth watching as a look at a skatepark built as functional public art. It came up in a thread on skating Dubai.

What skaters said on Reddit

u/flying_penguinsss2015 · 3 points

I was just in Dubai for a few days and they have really nice short ramps as compared to Singapore haha. A lot of streets in the city are made with brick so it's not friendly if you have hard wheels. For the most part when I was trying to look for museums in the Heritage Village, no one was really stopping me and I'm a girl skating. The people who were watching me were just curious onlookers Oh, I also went to the pla

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