​‘Flatland Pavilion’ is a multi-faceted architectural installation and a play on geometrical orders and structural potentials. While lines are commonly depicted as naively one-dimensional, ‘Flatland Pavilion’ is a showcase of a delicate yet challenging structure conceived completely out of simple and thin lines.

‘Silhouette, Altered’, designed by Möbius Design Studio, aims to materialize a connection between traditional craft and advanced technology in design. By altering the function of a cheap vinyl cutter through the replacement of its main feature (cutting) with primitive writing/drawing tools, the machine adopts a new role as a printing plotter that produces unreplicable iterations as a result of gradually decaying tools dictating a fluidity to typographic compositions that challenges stereotypical identities of letterforms.

For ADW2017, Architecture + Other Things collaborated with two designers; Ibrahim Ibrahim and Yasmeen Hamouda. ‘Painterly Structures’, designed by Architecture + Other Things and designer Ibrahim Ibrahim, presents an alternative mode of sustainable design practices through the use of found organic material. Fallen timber members are integrated into a digital and analogue making process that creates functional objects and structures.

Designed by Uraiqat Architects, 'X3' initiates a conversation between the image of the user in its reflective surfaces and the backdrop of the urban buildings and surrounding environment. This conversation is a dialogue between the self and the other that is born from the monologue between the I and the self, the object and image, the vision and perception.

Adel Abidin’s ‘Parallel Reality’ features a performative video and sculpture that illustrates a true story that became a well-known urban legend.

‘Ferromancy’, a project by multidisciplinary designer and researcher Hashem Joucka, consists of a set of three interactive installations. Reflecting on the influence of electromagnetic force on our daily existence, its origin and evolution, this project grants life to a material by using an invisible force and making the invisible visible.

​Across its platforms, Amman Design Week features the various techniques, approaches and methods to making pottery and ceramics, showing how diverse the craft can be.

Besides aesthetically impacting the user's experience with products, designers also have an impact on creating consciousness of consumerism when they design. These designers highlighted the necessity of being mindful about our usage and disposal of product packaging and being conscious consumers.

At Amman Design Week this year, these workshops and talks especially for children and teens focus on a variety of learning experiences, new technologies and craft making, both at the Mobile MakerSpace and as part of the workshops held at the Ras El Ain Gallery.

This year, Amman Design Week is shedding the light on many talented university and school students. Working under the mentorship of fashion designer Edelina Joyce Issa, each of these pieces has its own unique story, inspired by themes like nostalgia, nature and women’s empowerment.

Urbanization poses both obstacles and opportunities for sustainable urban development and design. Data on human patterns of movement within cities helps designers, researchers, and policymakers better understand differences between urban and rural areas in terms of their impacts on the environment and susceptibility to variability and change. Each of these initiatives, tour experiences and designers focuses on various forms of mapping; surveying urban spaces, human movement, and transportation routes.

​Animation design is used to communicate stories, concepts and ideologies. These designers demonstrate the power of animation design through their work that tackles everything from social and political topics to video game animation, and an animation panel talk that discusses how motion graphics can be used as a tool for expression and a new instrument for storytelling in Jordan.