An interview with Hadeyeh Badri and Hala Al Ani from Möbius Design Studio about Design House 2017: Change, Coordinates + Someone Else an exhibition curated by Möbius Design Studio at 1971 Design Space in Sharjah.
The exhibition is a result of investigating the conditions of a location and a group of people and the proposed design-driven solutions that came ... Show More
Feb 2024
Falling into Place: Designing Beautiful Workspaces with Laetitia Gorra, Founder and CEO of Roarke Design Studio
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In both life and design, Laetitia Gorra, Founder and CEO of Roarke Design Studio, believes everything will fall into place. Her entrepreneurial journey has proven to be exactly that ... Show More
32m 30s
Feb 2024
How Not to Construct an Arabic Typeface in 2024 | Wael Marcos | 25 Years of VCUQatar
In this episode of the @Tasmeem_Doha podcast, we asked Wael Morcos, the founder of Morcos Key, about the dos and don'ts of designing an Arabic typeface in 2024. He talks through the realities of such a task, about Nasri Khattar's influence with his unified Arabic typeface, whethe ... Show More
42m 7s
Oct 2020
Reimagining Arab Nostalgia | Rana Salam & The Confused Arab
Under the title “Nostalgia in Art” we talked to designer and Studio owner, Rana Salam, and the cultural cartographer behind “The confused Arab”, Sofiane Si Merabet. Connect with Rana: https://www.instagram.com/ranasalam/Connect with Sofiane: https://www.instagram.com/theconfuseda ... Show More
41m 35s
Dec 2020
“Living in Arabic”, Invisible Black Moroccans, On Identity by Amin Maalouf, & The Story of Swatch! [afikra Mezze]
Maria reads to us into Edward Said’s essay “Living in Arabic". Camilia explores how invisible black Moroccans can be made visible through the ideas and works of M’Barek Bouhchichi. Nadia Muijrers reviews "On Identity" by Amin Maalouf. Yasmine looks into the story of Swatch .Hoste ... Show More
53m 44s
Oct 2021
The Sun That Stood Still | Lara Atallah Unraveling Memories and Landscapes
In this Outline event, we talked to Lara Atallah about her latest project, The Sun That Stood Still. The project is an artist book that examines a shifting relationship to a shifting landscape. The book is about Lara’s grandmother, but also about loss, the Mediterranean, and livi ... Show More
27m 18s
Aug 2019
Episode 21: Jo Gillies, architect, designer and survivor talks about male and female design and the role of architecture in redemption
As an architect Jo Gillies has been a mainstay at Collaroy for over 20 years, but in 2013 the business further expanded in vision, director and staff, to be re-born as Archisoul Architects in Manly.
She speaks with Talking Architecture and Design about how design, both in its ra ... Show More
36m 48s
Feb 2021
Hisham Matar & Some of the Best Arab Literary Works
We talked to the writer behind the award-winning books from the award-winning novels, “In the Country of Men” and “Anatomy of a Disappearance”, to his Pulitzer Prize recipient memoir, “The Return”, and his latest book " A Month in Siena". This event was hosted in collaboration wi ... Show More
54m 48s
Feb 2024
Rana Beiruti on Impactful Representation in Design
A series of conversations with Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and people who have been part of Qatar’s architecture & culture development journey. In this episode, Her Excellency is joined by Rana Beiruti, the curator of Arab Design Now, the headline exhibition at Des ... Show More
23m 33s