Past Workshops

Afterschool Arts Club: Moving Marshmallows (Sustainability Week edition)

Diego Mendoza

Attention! Design challenge! Tashkeel is seeking young creative minds to solve a design challenge of utmost importance.

Precious Plastics

Hernan Torres

The workshop will explore how specialised machines can be utilised to create useful products out of waste. Through live demonstrations and hands-on exercises, participants will learn about how this pr...

Afterschool Arts Club: Sound Illustration

Diego Mendoza

Attention! Art challenge! Attention! Participants will think about how to illustrate sound and how to translate sounds to visual language. They will explore the sounds of a city and how those sounds c...

Digital Illustration

Nora Zeid

Join this digital illustration workshop led by artist Nora Zeid, who will go over the basics of digital illustration: from layout and rough sketching to creating line art and adding colour. Participan...

Drop in & Draw: Ephemera

Khalid Mezaina

In this session, Khalid Mezaina will focus on filling the pages of participants' sketchbooks with drawings, writings and ephemera that relate to memories, observations, and stories about people, place...

Summer Camp 2021 (8 - 11 years): Shop Designer

Azim Al Ghussein

Build your own miniature shop with Azim Al Ghussein! This workshop is designed to help children explore their spatial design skills using cardboard and other materials to construct a simple shop space...

Summer Camp 2021 (8 - 11 years): Collage with Pattern

Azim Al Ghussein

Patterns speak! Did you know patterns and textures have meaning and create feelings? In this illustration workshop with Azim Al Ghussein, children draw inspiration from textures and patterns unique to...

INDEX 2021: Inspired by History; Formed by Nature

A moderated design discussion featuring UAE-based designers Lina Ghalib and Hamza Omari around the challenges and opportunities of utilising natural materials indigenous to the UAE in contemporary pro...

Tashkeel Talk: Van Cleef & Arpels Middle East Emergent Designer Prize 2021

Ranim Orouk, Salim Ahmed, Lisa Ball-Lechgar

Discover what you need to do to win The Van Cleef & Arpels Middle East Emergent Designer Prize 2021 in partnership with Tashkeel. This year marks the eighth edition of the largest competition for emer...

Spring Camp 2021: Stamping Rugs

Create your own printed rug in this Stamping Rugs workshop with artist Khalid Mezaina!

Spring Camp 2021: Making Books

Have you ever heard of an origami book? This workshop by artist Muna Al Marashi will guide participants through the steps of making a beautiful origami book with square pieces of paper.

Tashkeel Talk: PlyPalm with Lina Ghalib

Lina Ghalib

Watch the talk online at your leisure from 23 March on our YouTube and IGTV channels, then join Tanween alumni Lina Ghalib for this live Q&A session where you raise the questions on the unique materia...