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  • theblacksac

    الحقيبة السوداء
    €199,00
  • Heirloom seeds

    بذور بلديّة
    €7,50
  • Nabulsi soap

    صابون نابلسي
    €6,00
  • Awakening Goggles

    Awakening goggles

    قناع الصحوة
    €25,00
  • State of Palestine

    دولة فلسطين
    €12,00
  • Gaza earrings ‘Love for life’

    أقراط غزة "نُحِبُّ الحياة"
    €175,00
  • ‘I am an Arab’ t-shirt

    قميص "سجِّل أنا عربي"
    €17,00 – €19,00
  • Cactus fruit candle

    شمعة الصبّار
    €8,50
  • Gaza Birdhouse

    Gaza birdhouse

    بيت العصفور الغزّاوي
    €12,50
  • Beyond First Impressions

    Beyond first impressions

    ما بعد الإنطباع الأوّل
    €25,00
  • Measuring inequality

    قياس عدم المساواة
    €35,00
  • Bird plate

    صحن الطّيور
    €30,00
  • Distance to Gaza

    المسافة إلى غزة
    €20,00
  • Coloured Keffiyeh

    Coloured keffiyeh

    الكوفية الملوّنة
    €25,00
  • Tears

    دموع
    €5,00
  • Qastina apron

    مريلة قسطينة
    €30,00
  • Watermelon flag

    علم البطّيخ
    €17,00 – €39,00
  • Face Mask

    Identity = health

    الهوية = الصحة
    €13,00
  • Christmas baubles from Bethlehem

    كرات عيد الميلاد من بيت لحم
    €7,00 – €9,00
  • Unveiled souls

    أرواح مكشوفة
    €17,50
  • Reworlding Ramallah

    Reworlding Ramallah

    إعادة قولبة العالم : رام الله
    €12,50
  • Subjective atlas of Palestine

    أطلس فلسطين الذاتي
    €24,50
  • Freedom shoes

    أحذية الحرّية
    €145,00
  • Black Keffiyeh

    Black on black keffiyeh

    أسود على كوفية سوداء
    €25,00
  • Hasakah

    الحسكة
    €40,00
  • ‘Everywhere’ fisherman’s box

    صندوق صيّاد السمك "من كلّ مكان"
    €50,00
  • Yellow cab toy

    لعبة السيرفيس الأصفر
    €35,00
  • Watchtowers and water tanks game

    لعبة أبراج المراقبة وخزّانات المياه
    €195,00
  • Checkpoint brush

    فرشاة الحاجز
    €17,50
  • Under construction

    صحن "قيد الإنشاء"
    €20,00
  • Poetic nights

    ليالٍ شعريّة
    €20,00
  • Stress ball

    كرة التّوتر
    €7,50
  • Proudly Made in Palestine

    صنع في فلسطين، بفخر
    €25,00
  • Everywhere Palestine

    فلسطين في كلّ مكان
    €60,00
  • Gaza scarf

    وشاح غزة
    €95,00
  • Disengaged observer outfit

    زيّ المراقب الدّولي
    €75,00
  • Barcelona or Madrid? No, Palestine!

    برشلونة او مدريد؟ لا، فلسطين!
    €0,50
  • Blanco

    القميص الأبيض
    €75,00
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From Checkpoint bag to Blacksac
من شنطة الحاجز إلى البلاك ساك Al Quds, 2015 – Al Khalil, 2022
  • Highlight
2021, a year in retrospect
٢٠٢١ سنة مفصليّة January 2022
  • Highlight
Call for solidarity
نداء للتضامن Until liberation
  • Highlight
Masters programme Disarming design
ماجستير معهد ساندبرج Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam, 2020 — 2022
  • Learning
Design for Disarming times
التصميم لأوقاتنا المجرِّدة Onomatopee publishers, 2020
  • Writing
Life of the Palestinian rug
ورشة البساط الفلسطيني Birzeit, September - October 2020
  • Learning
Facemask from Gaza
قناع الوجه من غزة August 2020
  • Highlight
Hosh Jalsa
حوش جلسة Birzeit, 2018 – 2020
  • Events
  • Learning
Marketing workshop
ورشة التسويق Birzeit, January – February 2020
  • Learning
Bags Prince Claus Awards
حقائب صندوق الأمير كلوز Amsterdam, 4 December 2019
  • Highlight
Crossing Boundaries lecture
محاضرة "اجتياز الحدود" VCUQatar, Doha, 19-22 November 2019
  • Learning
  • Speaking
Intimate terrains
إقتراب الآفاق Birzeit, 21–29 august 2019
  • Create-shop
  • Learning
The real and the absent
جسور من الماضي Birzeit, June – September 2019
  • Learning
Young artisans market
سوق الحرفيّين الشّباب Birzeit, 2019
  • Events
Reworlding Ramallah
إعادة قولبة العالم : رام الله Birzeit, January – April 2019
  • Highlight
  • Learning
  • Writing
Thought-provoking December gifts
هدايا محفّزة للفكر في فترة الأعياد Droog, Amsterdam, 6 December 2018 – 6 January 2019
  • Exhibiting
Collective thinking
تفكير جماعي Hosh Jalsa, Birzeit, November – December 2018
  • Learning
My house is your house
البيت بيتك Design Museum Ghent, 16 February – 15 April 2018
  • Exhibiting
Nieuwe Instituut
معرض نيوي انستتوت Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, november 2017
  • Exhibiting
Amman Design Week
أسبوع عمان للتصميم Darat al Funun, Amman, October 2017
  • Exhibiting
  • Speaking
Dream versus reality
الحلم مقابل الواقع Amman, September 2017
  • Create-shop
Dream Defenders
مجموعة "دريم ديفندرز" Ramallah, 17 August 2017
  • Learning
Design Museum Cologne
متحف التصميم، كولونيا Cologne, 14 May 2017
  • Exhibiting
  • Speaking
Henry Van De Velde Awards
جائزة هنري فان دي فيلد Bozar, Brussels, January – February 2017
  • Events
  • Exhibiting
Welcome home
الدار دارك Ramallah, 8 – 30 October 2016
  • Exhibiting
  • Speaking
Hosh Qandah, create-shop 2016
حوش قندح، ورشة التصميم ٢٠١٥ Ramallah, August – September 2016
  • Create-shop
Gaza & Jerusalem, create-shop 2015
ورشة التصميم من غزة للقدس Gaza & Jerusalem, 26 August – 8 September 2015
  • Create-shop
Qalandiya international
قلنديا الدولي IAAP, Ramallah, 27 October – 15 November 2014
  • Exhibiting
Ramallah, Create-shop 2014
ورشة التصميم ٢٠١٤ Ramallah, Bethlehem, 21 October – 7 November 2014
  • Create-shop
Eye on Palestine
العين على فلسطين KVS, Brussels, 24 March – 5 April 2014
  • Exhibiting
Conflict & design
التصميم و الصراع C-Mine, Genk, 15 December 2013 – 9 March 2014
  • Exhibiting
Bethlehem, create-shop 2013
ورشة التصميم ٢٠١٣ Bethlehem, 30 Sep – 12 Oct 2013
  • Create-shop
Ramallah, create-shop 2012
ورشة التصميم ٢٠١٢ Ramallah, Bethlehem, Hebron, Nablus, 1 – 15 September 2012
  • Create-shop
Subjective atlas of Palestine
أطلس فلسطين الذاتي Ramallah, 2007
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Hosh Jalsa
حوش جلسة

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Court yard of Hosh Jalsa, photo Nayef Hamouri

Hosh Jalsa, Community building
Birzeit, 2018 – 2020
From 2018 to 2020, Disarming Design from Palestine ran a community-based learning and action space, Hosh Jalsa, located in the heart of the Old City of Birzeit.

The space consisted of a social café, design library, a flex workspace, gallery, our office and in addition we had two guest rooms for residencies. We aproached it as a place for knowledge exchange and community building in relation to contemporary design, with a range of public activities, that empowered us to imagine alternative schooling for design. The centre was ran by Raed Hamouri and Ghadeer Dajani.

Interview by Mena Catalysts of executive director Raed Hamouri.

We invested in conditions for a learning experience that focuses on economic, political and artistic independence. How can artistic action in a suppressed reality be used to develop new knowledge? How can designers actively co-design the emancipatory and social impact of a design? What are the conditions, and potential for this in the Palestinian context?

Interview by Mena Catalysts of designer and production manager Ghadeer Dajani.

During our time at Hosh Halsa we opened our doors for external initiatives and set up several meeting ourselves. Hereby a small selection of the design related activities that we initiated.

Coffee talk on Heritage Architecture in Birzeit
31 October 2018, Hosh Jalsa, Birzeit
A coffee talk by Architects and Architecture student in Birzeit University on Heritage Architecture in Palestine; focusing on the old city of Birzeit. Residents of heritage buildings attended and shared their practical understanding of ancient houses’ design with professional and students of acrhitecture in Palestine.

Basics in architectural sketching course by Michael Jabareen
October – November 2018
Architect, designer and teacher Michael Jabareen offered a weekly course in architectural drawing that included basic drawing skills, live-drawing of buildings and a visit to the oldest olive tree in Bethlehem.

Visit of Belgian art professionals
8 October 2018
Flanders Arts Institute organised a working visits to a city, or to Amman, Ramallah, Jerusalem and Haifa, to give the opportunity for artists and art professionals working in Flanders (Belgium) to expand their network and to share knowledge with peers. Together with artist Samah Hijawi, they organised a multi-city trip to meet artists, theater makers, musicians and cultural organisations. The aim of the trip was to meet new people, reconnect, share practices, and make interesting connections for future encounters. They visited Disarming Design for a tour, lunch and engaging conversation.

Expert meeting on design education with Annelys de Vet
7 October, 2018
On the long term we want to establish a critical design program where we focus on the impact of design in an oppressed and politicised reality. Part of this would be a masters program at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam. We imagine an exchange on knowledge that feeds to the economic, political and artistic independence of designers. How can a designer actively co-design the political, economic and social impact of a design?

To develop the idea’s and get a better understanding of the needs, we organized an expert meeting. Together with some excellent practitioners we brainstormed about what kind of model and what kind of curriculum would be wished; what are the needs from the local designers; what do they believe is important for such a program?

Software courses on revit and photoshop by Michael Jabareen
October – November 2018
Architect, designer and teacher Michael Jabareen offered a course of 10 days spread over 6 weeks in the software Revit and another in Photoshop. Both courses 10 students participated.

The Doodler Workshop by Michael Jabereen
27 JULY – 31 august 2019
A 30-hour collective doodling workshop, for comics’ performers, cartoonists and doodlers to work on a concept-based piece of comic art and doodling. All artists worked on a one art piece and combined their styles in one concept and story. Participants worked on exercises that reflected through drawing on Palestinian and global humanitarian issues. The collective canvas of 3 x 2. 5m presented a range of issues based on everyday life, personal experiences, contemporary interests and historical narrative.

Hosh Jalsa was located in the historic city of Birzeit at Municipality Road 24, then minutes driving from Ramallah.

About the building
This heritage building was built in 1885 (according to the milestone on the top floor), and was the residence of the  Nasser-family,  including the former mayor of Birzeit Tawfiq Nasser. The building was designed according to Palestinian architecture of a court yard surrounded by two floors with rooms and terraces. The building has been demolished partially during WWI and WWII, and has been renovated in the year 2010 by Riwaq Foundation, and was put to use as a public space for society enterprises.

Unfortunate closure
Since March 2020 when the COVID crisis started, we haven’t been able to organise public events in our community center anymore; neither were we able to keep the kitchen and gallery open. Therefore, we were forced, with profound sadness, to close down the unique place that Hosh Jalsa was. However, the networks we had activated through the place and its spirit, persist, and collaborations will continue.

Acknowledgements
Hosh Jalsa was ran by Raed Hamouri & Ghadeer Dajani, with inspiring input by Michael Jabareen and a group of amazing volunteers consisting of Khaled Ladadweh, Salem Shoubaki, Kareem Khalid Rateb Bakri, Laith Khanfar, Nasma Khdairi, Heyam Abo Libdeh Saba Rjoub, Marah Barghouthi, Yara Atwan, Noor Totah, Fatima Nafee, Bilal Ismael, Noor Awwad, Sarah Zaben

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Identity = health
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Keffiyeh mask to protect both health and identity

Half a decade before the Covid-19 pandemic، Gaza-born artist Mohammed Musallam created a face mask based on the traditional keffiyeh textile. The conceptual artwork could be seen both as an expression of Palestinian identity and as a means of protection; caring for identity is as important as protecting health itself. It was first used in Gazan hospitals under the Israeli occupation’s siege. Impossible at that time to foresee the impact of Covid-19; this face mask shows the power of artistic imagination. The artwork did not lose any of its meaning; just the contrary.

Gaza’s potentially disastrous combination of widespread impoverishment, densely-packed refugee camps and extremely limited hospital capacity make us even more aware of the catastrophic impact of the Israeli occupation and how fragile life can be. Caring for each other is more important than ever.

Under Musallam’s supervision, the new masks were produced in Gaza City by tailor Abu Alaa Ghaben; to be worn for your safety and as an act of solidarity.

Read review in The Art Newspaper, June 2020

 

Design
  • Mohammed Musallam (PS)

    Mohammed Musallam was born in Gaza in 1974 after his family had been dislocated from the historic Palestine as a consequent of the 1948 war. He holds a PhD in philosophy of Fine Arts, Painting Department, Fine Arts College, Minia University, Egypt. He currently resides in Gaza and works there as a lecturer of “Painting and the History of Palestinian Arts” at the College of Arts, Al Aqsa University. From his first steps as a university student he became greatly influenced by the abstract art processes and approaches. In his Art, he focuses on portraying a range of humanistic issues, which go beyond the limitations imposed by any prevailing time-related matters, which may be oppressive and persistent simultaneously. At the same time, he concentrates on conveying the notion of the preservation of our humaneness amid the harshness of our environment as one of the most important reasons for our existence.

    www.mohammedmusallam.com

Production
  • Abu Alaa Ghaben (Gaza, PS)

    Carpenter living in Gaza City.

  • 2020

    Multi layered face-mask (front side keffiyeh textile, backside white cotton) with elastic straps, washable & reusable

    19 x 9 cm

€13,00

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The design is an invitation to the world to look closely Catalyse a broader view and prevent people from covering Reminding us to bear a greater responsibility towards life The false accusation may have ended, but the occupation has not Caring for identity is as important as protecting health itself Aside from their cultural significance, these seeds carry options for our future survival Catalysing a more open view and preventing people from covering over their own eyes when it comes to Palestine The more time we spend together, and listen, the more stories are unveiled A rapidly growing but comparatively small niche of Palestinian science fiction Sublime landscapes, tranquil urban scenes, frolicking children; who would associate these images with Palestine? “Record! I am an Arab, and my identity card is number 50 000” The Hirbawi factory is one of the only remaining factories to manufacture keffiyeh locally Wearing this unique piece on becomes both a political statement This apron shows what is the one and only recipe for its artist Our roots hold strong and silently in the earth Our trees are like our children The shared taxi is part of the West Bank urban landscape There are no possibilities of movement, since all the squares on the board are occupied Erasing the Israeli checkpoints from the landscape and envisioning a Palestine free from the occupation “We love life whenever we can” An illegal apartheid wall, on a scale impossible to imagine A flourishing craft industry established during the time of Roman rule in Palestine The artist decided to declare the existence of a non-existent state Only two soap factories survive today The occupation also takes part of the body and mind Living under occupation is an attack on people’s mental strength Most importantly they had the “Made in Palestine” tag on them The pattern of this keffiyeh is found and copied in Palestine Shoes have a long tradition as symbols of opposition and defiance You begin to realise that you have become yet another victim of the spell “I felt confused, between humiliation and joy" The birds’ freedom of flight and movement is in sharp contrast Behind each of these numbers there is a personal story The plates connect different locations in the world to Gaza The embroidery on this scarf is based on a traditional scarf in Gaza Travelling with a Palestinian Authority passport is still subject to many limitations Is it even possible to be neutral in situations of oppression? Why do we too rarely address the contemporary reality of this city and region Talking about Palestinian football is rare, although there is a national team This tailor-made garment is fragile Why can’t we be as generous as nature itself?
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