The collective workshop attempted to tackle material resources and showcase their qualities in motivating imagination and creativity.

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The participants explored materials in their raw forms and where they come from.

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The aim of the workshop was to collect and archive the locally available matter to create a common and open source of knowledge. 

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A talk moderated by Noura Al Sayeh-Holtrop, the curator of the Hangar exhibition, inviting Sahel Al Hiyari, Saba Innab, and Ishraq Zraikat, three participants in the exhibition.

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The conversation centered around the designers' interpretation of the theme of possibilities.

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The speakers discussed their approach to their practice and research in an intersection with the theme.

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ONExUNICEF Humanitarian Change-maker Labs discussed their journey with participants who have produced distinguished product designs around themes of social change and innovation for good.

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The speakers discussed their stories of change-making and how a desire to solve their community problems at Za'atari Camp has catalyzed their vision of problem-solving in the MENA region.

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The participants had three projects on display at Amman Design Week.

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The speakers were: Abbas Bassam Al Faouri, Ibrahim Al Zu’bi and Mohammad Naeem Al Hamadi and Seba Basel Al Diri.

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Civil Architecture spoke with Lebanese landscape firm studiolibani about their collection of waterless public gardens.

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The work 'Minor Paradises' was presented for the Hangar Exhibition.

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This workshop aimed to give the participants an opportunity to push the boundaries of traditional skills more freely.

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The workshop explored traditional “coiling” techniques in a contemporary sense, using fibers as well as fabrics, plastic bags and found objects.

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The duo designers demonstrated the many different ways and approaches to branding the same festival year after year they have been branding.

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This talk explored how the festival started with 500 people and then witnessed a growth of 5,000 people on its seventh year.

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Abeer Zoumot and Noor Issa are founders of abnodesigns, a creative studio based in Amman.

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Foundland Collective presented subjective mapping projects, which highlight how situations of conflict influence domestic spaces and gatherings.

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Through their projects “Friday Table” (2014) and “Groundplan drawings” (2014-2018) the collective aimed to offer a counter-narrative to mainstream news media through drawing, video interviews, and critical use of infographics.

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Fabian, the director of the growth network Tatcraft, talked about his journey of creating an ecosystem for creative makers that enables people to imagine, create and fabricate by combining workshops and a collaborative network of creative minds.

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The speaker discussed with the audience alternative models for creative start-ups in Jordan. 

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Nidal Qanadilo hosted a discussion with Mohammad Obaidat, Dima Hamadeh and Adham Selim who imagined an incubation program targeting specifically designers and other creative entrepreneurs.

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The speakers discussed the importance of these incubators while most incubator programs both in Lebanon and Jordan target mainly tech-related start-ups.

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The talk revolved around imagination as an essential element of any design process. And as the starting point for the creation and thus also the basis to create the necessary enabling environment for a flourishing design industry.

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The panel looked at how the fields of archeology and paleography can enrich contemporary design and inspire a more culturally rooted design research.

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The speakers reflected on the important role that scripts have played in defining and preserving the cultural identity of past and present civilizations.

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The workshop explored artificial light which can become a critical tool to the knowledge of a city, and to rediscover the bearing lines of its structure and distinctive features of its morphology.

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The workshop took on the artificial light as a “construction" tool, not just an aid to show or decorate what already exists especially in historical city centers.

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Palestine Hosting Society is a live art project that explores traditional food culture in Palestine.

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Mirna spoke on how the project brings traditional Palestinian dishes back to life over dinner tables, walks, and various interventions.

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Palestine Hosting Society is founded and run by artist and cook Mirna Bamieh, as an extension of her art practice that often looks at the politics of disappearance, and memory production.

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Nissreen Haram shared her experiences in preserving and protecting artisanal practices in cheese-making.

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Nisreen focused on working with the treasured Awassi sheep in Jordan.

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The talk shed light on the urban practice of shepherding in Amman.

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Nissreen Haram is the founder of Mistaka - a project specializing in aged and fresh artisan cheese and dairy made exclusively from the seasonal milk of local Awassi sheep raised in timeless nomadic tradition.

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A group of four young women from diverse backgrounds took Tasmeem Doha 2019 as a challenge and mission to celebrate the complexity and value of narrative in creative practice.

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As the organizers of Tasmeem Doha in its latest edition, Hekayat, they approached the event as a platform to celebrate the complexity and value of narrative in creative practice. 

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Jewellery Artist Esna Su shared her journey of creating evocative sculptural pieces.

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The designer envelops her pieces with heritage, using traditional Turkish techniques of weaving, twining, and crochet, skills often used in her hometown of Antioch, Turkey.

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Esna explained how she creates her body of work from traditional crafts.

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This event included short presentations by a number of pioneering individuals and institutions working in Jordan on issues relating to urban agriculture.

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The panel marked the launch of the completed study on urban agriculture in Jordan that the Center for the Study of the Built Environment has carried out in association with the Fredrich Ebert Foundation.

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The presentations covered topics including rooftop gardening, container farming, hydroponics, aquaponics, and composting.

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The event was made in the lights of the 'Future Food/ Future City' exhibition which was held during Amman Design Week 2019.

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Arini moderated a discussion with participants from the crafts district.

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Designers Ruba Asi and Zeina Barto discussed the engagement with the Arabic word Hirfa (حِرْفَة) from several perspectives.

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The participants talked about craft as handicraft, as practice, as source of livelihood, and finally as a change of conditions.

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