To support local talent, Amman Design Week has prepared an exciting entertainment schedule offering live performances featuring local musicians and tunes featuring various local talents who will be performing as part of the social space created for the Crafts District.

MADAFA stems from the belief that design should be experienced through all five senses. Set within the winding pathway between Al Hussein Cultural Center and Greater Amman Municipality, MADAFA is a social space and pavilion curated by Arini and designed by architects Rasem Kamaland and Saja Nashashibi. The pavilion is a modern reinterpretation of the traditional space for the reception of visitors.

This film attempts to capture the creative energy of Amman through the soul of Mamdouh Bisharat, who like Kurt Schwitters of Germany and Joseph Cornell of the US, uses "psychological collages” of fragments of found objects to make sense of the world around him.

This pop-up eatery encompasses a contemporary kitchen where chefs prepare an interesting array of locally inspired dishes.

Food makers cook on site from scratch, bringing people closer to the process and the craft of food preparation, highlighting their cultural identity.

​Combining design exhibitions and dining experiences, The Cart celebrates emerging artisanal food businesses and small scale producers to cater for those who enjoy the finer things in life.

A self-made innovator in a number of different entertainment disciplines, Ali Ramahi focuses on momentum and the ways it can be harnessed in the human body: through art, acrobatics, and fire juggling, and within human-powered machines such as unicycles.

While the catalogue of materials available to architects and 3D printing have exponentially increased the possibility to marry innovation with value, most of us still paint within our comfort zone. Instead of limiting our use to a traditional palette consisting of concrete, wood, brick, glass, and metal, however, we have expanded our use of available materials to embrace a design ethos that bridges research, practice, and the possibilities.

Till now and counting, there are 95 design weeks throughout the world, each generating massive impact on a city by attracting media attention, tourism and helping the economy. The collective dialogue invites local designers to engage on the world stage.

IMEDEA and ASU will assemble leaders from academia and practice at the Applied Science University Conference Center for the purpose of exploring the future of design education.

The Memory Matrix is a monument that explores the possibilities for future heritage creation, employing new fabrication techniques and transcultural workshops. This talk is by Azra Akšamija, an artist and designer from Sarajevo based in Boston, where she is Associate Professor at the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology.

Local designer Sahar Madanat introduces audiences to her work and talks about what it means to design for people and tailor products to their specific needs. This talk is by Sahar Madanat, whose work focuses on innovation in product design, ranging from medical design to new concept furniture.