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    Calender
    التقويم Various locations, 2026
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    Introducing new board members
    Brussels, 2026
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    The absence of the meaning of home
    غياب معنى البيت DDFP Gallery, Spring 2026
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    The meaning of home
    معنى البيت On-line, 2025–2026
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    Finding our place
    إيجاد مكاننا A year in retrospect, 2025
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    Movement in Practice
    الحركة في الممارسة Brussels, Winter 2026
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    Things that don't sell
    الأشياء التي لا تُباع Antwerp, december 2024
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    The only lexicon left
    المعجم الوحيد المتبقي Kunsthal Gent, 22 June 2024
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    On artist-run solidarity platforms
    على منصات التضامن التي يديرها الفنانون Kunsthal Gent, 21-22 March, 2024
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    Leaving 2023 in grief
    مغادرة عام 2023 في الحزن A year in retrospect, 2023
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    Ways to translate solidarity to action
    طرق ترجمة التضامن إلى عمل 20 October 2023
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    Infrastructures for solidarity through design
    مقومات للتضامن من خلال التصميم Pianofabriek, Brussels, 5-6 October 2023
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    Disarming Design ?
    تصاميم مجرّدة Forum+, February 2023
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    Qastina is to root myself again
    قسطينة يعيدني لجذوري من جديد Bethlehem-Brussels, 15 February 2023
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    2022, a year to solidify
    عام 2022 ، سنة يجب ترسيخها Palestine, Belgium and beyond, 2022
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    From Checkpoint bag to Blacksac
    من شنطة الحاجز إلى البلاك ساك Al Quds, 2015 – Al Khalil, 2022
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    2021, a year in retrospect
    ٢٠٢١ سنة مفصليّة January 2022
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    Call for solidarity
    نداء للتضامن Until liberation
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    Masters programme Disarming design
    ماجستير معهد ساندبرج Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam, 2020 — 2022
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    Design for Disarming times
    التصميم لأوقاتنا المجرِّدة Onomatopee publishers, 2020
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    Life of the Palestinian rug
    ورشة البساط الفلسطيني Birzeit, September - October 2020
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    Facemask from Gaza
    قناع الوجه من غزة August 2020
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    Hosh Jalsa
    حوش جلسة Birzeit, 2018 – 2020
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    2021, a year in retrospect

    2021 was a transformative year, we look back and weigh all that the months have brought. The uphe...

    Bird plate

    One-third of the food produced for human consumption is thrown away, and designer Maher Shaheen r...

    Closing 2025

    In 2025, we strengthened our ability to support artisan partners across Palestine and to meet the...

    Createshop Ramallah, 2014

    In the autumn of 2014 the third create shop was held with Palestinian artists and designers, and ...

    Distance to Gaza

    ‘Distance to Gaza’ is a homage to artist Khaled Hourani’s art project ‘The Road to ...

    Reaching beyond borders

    For the magazine 'Works that Work' Belgian curator and author Kurt Vanbelleghem interviewed peop...

    State of Palestine

    Government documents serve the explicit correlation of identity and affiliation. Pa...

    The darkest 2023

    2023 leaves us in grief for the massive loss of life we witnessed in Gaza. The year is marked by ...

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    How can design help counteract unjust realities Rug industry was an essential part of their lifestyle Define what is needed to enhance social, political and emancipatory impact Disarming is an approach that positions design as a cultural tool to oppose oppression Storytelling can be seen as a form of resilience and resistance Giving space to other knowledges through a design process Collective memories highlight relationships that allow a crossing and intermingling between differences. Exploring how design can be a vehicle for political resistance and solidarity Investing in conditions for a learning experience that focuses on economic, political and artistic independence How to present work online and reach the right audience? Extraordinary people working in areas where cultural expression faces challenges The effect of occupation on local design and how it restricts craft and product development What does it mean to be Palestinian today, and how to express that through locally made designs? Overviewing methods and exercises on oral tradition A place for knowledge exchange and community building in relation to contemporary design How can we reflect, integrate and interact with oral tradition? “The only thing that gets me going is sharing stories.” What roles do listening, remembering and going public play in the performance of oral history? Ticking needles, curious questions, whispering experiments, rhythmic embroideries and a ping pong of ideas Supporting students and designers on reviving their industries of handicrafts and innovative production Can we think of freedom beyond a logic of progress? Learning together while doing Creating space for artists to link their designs with local histories. A collaborative process with high emphasis on creativity, collaboration, making and quality We felt powerless and were struggling how to relate to this uncomfortable truth Crafts are a social act that relates to the sense of a place, how a community is built How can we envision a political horizon beyond the realities around us? "Today in Birzeit." What is ‘home’? When and where are we at home? How can we change our surroundings and how can design contribute to the quality of life? Collaboratively developing a series of thought provoking products Showing the disarming reverse side of the black-and-white image
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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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    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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