Fashion design at Amman Design Week 2019 showcases the possibilities of material, form, and technique with works from various designers exhibiting at the Hangar Exhibition and the takween pop-up shop.

Al Zahra’a Al Omari investigates smart materials within textile and technology and presents Silence Tapestry, an interactive color-changing tapestry.

Across different disciplines and geographies, there is growing experimentation in the use and application of materials, whether it is basalt, resin, or stone. Architects, sculptors, and designers work with material from the earth to show the extent that these materials can reach in furniture and interior finishing.

There is a growing interest in the attributes of our land and the potential that lays in the soil and in the earth.

Craftspeople from across the country come to the capital Amman to showcase work developed uniquely for Amman Design Week’s Crafts District.

For the Hangar Exhibition 2019, Bethlehem-based architects Elias and Yousef Anastas are presenting a stone column made out of architectural ruins with an approach that seeks to integrate salvaged building components in contemporary architecture.

Following an interest in reconnecting with local identity and revisiting millennial crafts, weaving, one of the emerging themes at the Hangar Exhibition, is being reinvented and revived through new techniques and applications.

In the 1980s, a new monumentality was being constructed through the signifiers of the "belated" modernity of Amman. This monumentality emphasized a specific national identity using a postmodern language.

The Crafts District, curated by Arini, offers audiences (and children) a chance to engage with crafts through the act of play.

This year’s Hangar Exhibition, curated by Noura Al Sayeh-Holtrop, sees common themes in regard to experimentation with materials, and architect Sahel Alhiyari’s piece at the entrance of the exhibition is a prime example of this.

For the duration of the exhibition, the Hangar’s outdoor plaza will be home to Minor Paradises, a series of waterless public gardens, designed by Civil Architecture x studiolibani.

Jude Abu El Ghanam’s research project was selected to be exhibited as part of the Hangar Exhibition at the 2019 edition of Amman Design Week.