Ended - Monday
16 November 2020
Live Lecture: Fungi for Material Futures
Ninela Ivanova, Dr.
Explore how Ninela’s personal passion for craft, materials, nature and sensory experience led her to explore the potential use of fungi within fashion and furniture design. Be part of the Q&A at the e...
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Ended - Saturday
14 November 2020
DDW 2020 Family Workshop: Laser-Cut Cardboard
Azim Al Ghussein
Get a taste for design construction in this live 90-minute free workshop to assemble a vase using pre-cut cardboard components made on the Tashkeel Laser Cutter. Customise your creation using a select...
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Ended - Thursday
12 November 2020
DDW 2020 Adult Workshop: Making with Laser-Cut Wood
Salim Ahmed
Join this 90-minute free workshop led by Salim Ahmed from Tashkeel to assemble a lamp using pre-cut wooden components made on the Tashkeel Laser Cutter and a simple lighting element. Customise your cr...
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Ended - Wednesday
11 November 2020
DDW 2020 MasterClass: Introduction to the Tanween Design Programme 2021
Lisa Ball-Lechgar, Salim Ahmed
Since its launch in 2013, the Tanween design programme at Tashkeel has contributed to the growth of the UAE design sector by investing in 26 UAE-based emerging designers from 11 countries to design an...
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Ended - Wednesday
11 November 2020
DDW 2020 MasterClass: Creative and Cultural Industries, What Does it All Mean?
Lisa Ball-Lechgar
The term ‘creative and cultural industries’ has gained momentum since it was first coined back in the 1990s in a bid to measure the economic and social impact and spread deeper understanding about the...
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Ended - Tuesday
8 December 2020
Afterschool Arts Club: Slime!
Participants will learn to make their own safe slime at home using items from the grocery store.
Young people can still learn new kinds of making while observing social distancing with the After Scho...
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Ended - Saturday
28 November 2020
Expand Your Practice
Khalid Mezaina
This crash course in screenprinting is ideal for artists and designers looking to access a new technique to enhance their practice or refresh their knowledge. Covering the fundamentals of screenprinti...
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Ended - Saturday
31 October 2020
Online Workshop: How to Photograph Art
Altamash Urooj
The workshop will be focused on providing development of skills to photograph and catalogue artwork for archival, commercial and social media use. The presentation-based talk will include discussing t...
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Ended - Tuesday
27 October 2020
Online Talk: Tanween 2021 – Time to Apply
Tanween is the professional development programme by Tashkeel, open to emerging designers, makers and artisans living and working in the UAE. Each year, practitioners are selected to embark on a journ...
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Ended - Tuesday
12 January 2021
Online Course: Critical Dialogues
Kevin Jones
Running annually since 2016, this twelve-week course offers artists the tools to significantly improve how they represent themselves. Based on the belief that we can’t think critically if we don’t rea...
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Ended - Tuesday
8 December 2020
After School Arts Club: Salt Painting
Participants will learn how to apply paint to create a tactile image using salt.
Young people can still learn new kinds of making while observing social distancing with the After School Arts Club at ...
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Ended - Saturday
24 October 2020
Training for Teaching-Artists
Azim Al Ghussein
In this workshop participants will learn how to structure and plan a studio based workshop. Topics discussed will include how to plan according to parameters, how to cost and price a workshop, how to ...
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