Independent Space
Workshop
Venue
Isteakan
Location
Jabal Amman
Date
6, 13 October 2017
Time
-
Tea by Design is a one-hour workshop which invites participants to design their own unique tea aromas and flavors by using loose leaf teas, tisanes and herbs. The workshop will begin with a discussion on the history, alchemy and origins of tea and will focus on the art of reflecting feelings, scents, and flavors into a single brew of tea.
Exhibition
Independent Space

Congo Underground

THE COLOR EXPERiMENT
Venue
Blue Fig Underground
Location
Abdoun
Date
6, 11 - 13 October 2017
Time
-
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

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

Static Ripples

Obsessive Compulsive Design
Venue
Obsessive Compulsive Design
Location
Jabal Al Lweibdeh
Date
12 - 14 October 2017
Time
-
Our current historical moment is suspended between polarizing speed and stillness. Speed has become a part of a world full of conflict, and has multiplied and expanded.
Exhibition
Independent Space
Venue
Dahiyat al Hussein Co-ed School
Location
Airport Road
Date
7, 9, 11, 13 - 14 October 2017
Time
-
As of 2017, Jordan still does not have a nationwide household recycling program. This exhibition aims to highlight the large amount of waste created on a daily basis throughout the country, and seeks to create awareness about the importance of properly recycling, reusing, and disposing of waste.
Independent Space
Workshop
Venue
Al Hussein Cultural Center
Location
Ras El Ain
Date
13 - 14 October 2017
Time
-
As Amman looks to institutionalize resilience planning citywide, Resilience by Design University (RBD_U) is an opportunity for academics, students and practitioners to come together through a two-day event focused on Amman’s challenges of water, waste and transportation.
Independent Space
Workshop

Puzzle Painting

Love on a Bike
Venue
Love on a Bike
Location
Wadi Saqra
Date
13 October 2017
Time
-
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.
Independent Space
Workshop

Acrylic Workshop

Samir & Ghassan
Venue
Samir & Ghassan
Location
8th Circle
Date
13 October 2017
Time
-
This workshop teaches participants the basics of using acrylic paints to create their own works of art with this versatile medium.