Children’s Workshop
Independent Space

Toy Hacking

The Children's Museum Jordan
Venue
The Children's Museum
Location
King Hussein Park
Date
6 - 9, 11 - 14 October 2017
Time
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Taking place at the Children’s Museum Jordan’s Tinker Lab, this workshop is designed for children to tinker with old toys and transform them into new creations. Each participant will choose a toy, deconstruct it, and then reconstruct it again to create an new invention.
Culture & Food
Independent Space
Venue
Turtle Green Tea Bar
Location
Jabal Amman
Date
6 - 12 October 2017
Time
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Turtle Green invites visitors to learn more about Kombucha, the making process and to try the drink and learn about some of its health benefits.
Exhibition
Independent Space
Venue
Turbo
Location
Downtown Amman
Date
6 - 14 October 2017
Time
-
Visit Turbo to see a matchbox pyramid installation designed by Saeed Abu Jaber and Mothanna Hussein.
Independent Space
Workshop
Venue
Omniplan
Location
Ras El Ain
Date
10 - 12 October 2017
Time
-
A short seminar that introduces participants to the newest software from Autodesk – Fusion 360. The four-day workshop will teach participants how to design parts and models with stable and dynamic joints, transferring any idea from imagination to reality.
Exhibition
Independent Space

Sounds of Design

Basel Naouri
Venue
Duke's Design Center
Location
Downtown Amman
Date
6 - 14 October 2017
Time
-
Sounds of Design is a sound exhibition that highlights the processes of creation across a number of design fields. An immersive space with a carefully designed speaker system takes visitors on a journey through the sounds of materials, machines, human interactions, and other components that go into the creation of a design product, whether an item of furniture, piece of clothing, or an aesthetically pleasing dish.
Exhibition
Independent Space

Congo Underground

THE COLOR EXPERiMENT
Venue
Blue Fig Underground
Location
Abdoun
Date
6, 11 - 13 October 2017
Time
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Inspired by Congo Square in New Orleans, THE COLOR EXPERiMENT redesigns Blue Fig Underground to focus on the musical heritage and to pay cultural tribute to an underground subculture that tells a story of liberation. Serving upscale street food and alternative entertainment, this space offers an experience beyond mainstream culture.
Exhibition
Independent Space
Venue
Darat al Funun
Location
Jabal Al Lweibdeh
Date
7 - 14 October 2017
Time
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An exhibition displaying the products created and designed by “Disarming Design from Palestine", an inclusive design label that presents useful products from Palestine. Based in Ramallah, the program unites Palestinian crafts communities with contemporary designers and artists from Palestine with Masters students from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam to exchange knowledge, experiences and techniques.
Exhibition
Independent Space

Lines Within

Jacaranda Images
Venue
Jacaranda Images
Location
Jabal Amman
Date
10 - 14 October 2017
Time
-
This exhibition explores ideas of home, delving into the meaning of place and home in an age of forced migration and immigration – of home as an internal orientation where the idea of belonging to a place may no longer exist.
Independent Space
Workshop
Venue
Design Institute Amman
Location
Jabal Amman
Date
11 - 13 October 2017
Time
-
The three-day workshop aims to briefly go through the fashion design process from design to making, to realise one design in three-dimensional form. Through discussions and exercises, students will be shown how to research a theme, develop it into a capsule collection of basic elasticated waist skirts, and how to pattern-cut and construct their final chosen skirt.​
Exhibition
Independent Space
Venue
Ola's Garden
Location
Jabal Amman
Date
7 - 9, 11 - 14 October 2017
Time
-
‘Lines of Memory’ is a jewelry and art collection inspired by longevity and strength of the olive tree. Visitors will have the chance to share their opinions, learn about the design process and the various techniques used.
Independent Space
Workshop
Venue
Tumayr
Location
7th Circle
Date
11 - 12 October 2017
Time
-
Participants of this workshop will receive an introduction to basic garden design, and will be asked to come up with an abstract drawing that will be transformed into a garden plan. Participants will learn a simplistic method of transforming shapes into garden areas and plans.
Independent Space
Workshop

Puzzle Painting

Love on a Bike
Venue
Love on a Bike
Location
Wadi Saqra
Date
7 - 12, 14 October 2017
Visit ‘Love on a Bike’ to participate in solving a 2000-piece jigsaw puzzle of one of Rima Malallah’s paintings. After a week of communal puzzle solving, a time-lapse video of the group effort will be created and shared online.