Children’s Workshop

Eurekers Space

Mohammad Shannak - Eureka Tech Academy
Venue
Jordan Museum - Children’s Space
Location
Ras El Ain
Date
5, 9 September 2016
Time
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This workshop will include hands-on activities in electrical engineering for students from 11–16 years old. Students will get an introduction to how electrical circuits work and how to build these circuits practically. Each participant will receive an electronic educational kit to implement these activities.
Talk

The Designer’s New Skin

Max Fraser, Mohammad Al-Asad, and Sahel Al Hiyari
Venue
Jordan Museum
Location
Ras El Ain
Date
5 September 2016
Time
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Max Fraser joins the designer and curator of Amman Design Week’s Hangar Exhibition, architect Sahel Al Hiyari and the Director of the Center for the Study of the Built Environment, architect and architectural historian Mohammad Al-Asad, in a talk that will explore new technologies, consumption, changing attitudes from consumers and clients, and global problems as they relate to the world of design.
Talk

Y: The Most Important Letter in Design

Filippo Protasoni - Furniture & Product Designer
Venue
Jordan Museum
Location
Ras El Ain
Date
5 September 2016
Time
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A little journey through Filippo Protasoni’s works, seen through the design process and stories from offstage that make a project valuable for market and clients. Filippo Protasoni studied in Italy and Norway, graduating from Politecnico di Milano. He has designed for important Italian brands, such as Lago, Prandina, Miniforms, Sintesi and Mirabello.
Children’s Workshop

Little Eurekers Space

Farah Shaddad - Eureka Tech Academy
Venue
Jordan Museum - Children’s Space
Location
Ras El Ain
Date
3, 7 September 2016
Time
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This workshop will include hands on activities for kids from 6–10 years old, where they will learn and implement systems in robotics, mechanical engineering, pneumatics and renewable technologies. Farah Shaddad is the senior trainer at Eureka Tech Academy with two years experience in teaching STEM for kids from 6–10 years old.
Workshop
Venue
Raghadan Tourist Terminal
Location
Downtown Amman
Date
3, 7 September 2016
Time
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Using the traditional techniques of textile-dyeing used by the women of Ghor Al Safi, this workshop introduces participants to the use of local, natural dyes in creating beautiful patterns on cloth. On the shores of the Dead Sea, the Ghor El Safi Women Association for Social experiments with innovative arts and crafts.
Culture & Food
Independent Space

Namliyeh: Tea Party

Creative Space
Venue
Namliyeh
Location
Jabal Al Lweibdeh
Date
6 - 7 September 2016
Time
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Stop by for an afternoon tea party at Namliyeh's kitchen and tasting room in Jabal al Weibdeh to sample jams from their seasonal collections along with scones, cream and tea. Learn more about the different fruit varieties in Jordan, as well as Namliyeh’s wild herbal infusions and the less known traditional farming methods.
Workshop
Venue
Jordan Museum - MakerSpace
Location
Ras El Ain
Date
7 September 2016
Time
-
Strategies are dead. Strategies should be alive. Everything in our world is fluid. Our strategies therefore should be designed to closer reflect the world. This workshop will answer: How can we operate in a world that keeps changing? How can we move forward without knowing for such what is going to happen?
Workshop

Design For Impact: Amman's Local Markets

T+LOCAL: Dennis Meulenbroeks
Venue
Jordan Museum - MakerSpace
Location
Ras El Ain
Date
7 September 2016
Time
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​This workshop on social design invites participants to design opportunities for the communities in the local markets in downtown Amman. Dennis Meulenbroeks is the founder and director of T+LOCAL. As a social entrepreneur with an Industrial Design background, he researches and develops new approaches and strategies for design in the social field.
Workshop
Venue
Jordan Museum
Location
Ras El Ain
Date
7 September 2016
Time
-
Coaching & Mentorship are essential for personal growth, new insights, and overcoming business challenges. Join this unique opportunity to sit with Paul Hughes in a Mastermind Circle where you can join a select group of people to discuss any professional challenge and ‘ask coach Paul anything’.
Workshop
Independent Space
Venue
Zara Center
Location
Wadi Saqra
Date
7 September 2016
Time
-
This workshop is an introduction to the theory and practice of how to write for animated short films. The participants will learn how to turn their ideas into cinematic scripts by using different techniques and approaches.
Workshop
Independent Space

Motion Design

Mahmoud Al Azzab
Venue
SAE Institute-Amman
Location
Airport Road
Date
7 September 2016
Time
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Motion graphics is a digital technique that combines pictures, words, sound and video. It addresses the languages of film, animation and graphic design.
Independent Space
Independent Space
Venue
eyen
Location
Wadi Saqra
Date
6 - 9 September 2016
Time
-
As an answer to the limited access to resources of design and creative industry literature, eyen wishes to open its doors with its collection of books, magazines, publications and more.