Past Workshops

Rebuilding Memory: Recreating Your Lost 'Toy'

Nidanin Woodwork

What was your favourite toy as a child? This workshop with Nidanin Woodwork is an exercise in recreating long lost childhood objects that held significant meaning, whether it be to place, people or se...

Tashkeel Lecture: From Material Values to Product Application

Chris Lefteri

Join the Tashkeel Talk with Chris Lefteri, an internationally recognised authority in materials and their application in design, who will offer designers another approach to design process - one that ...

Tashkeel Talk: Beyond Sustainability

Jonathan Ashmore

Join this Tashkeel Talk with Jonathan Ashmore, the Founder and Principal Architect of award-winning RIBA Chartered Practice ANARCHITECT, on his unique approach to design and architecture that embodies...

Tashkeel Lecture: How can invasive species be used to create luxurious materials while improving our local biodiversity?

Irene Roca Moracia

Join this Tashkeel Lecture with Irene Roca Moracia, an architect and design researcher who has worked for firms like Dominique Perrault and LVMH. Irene will be discussing her Maison/0 graduate project...

Laser Cutting

Ali Mohammed Zulfikar Tinwala

Learn about the precise and versatile machines known as laser cutters, used for cutting or engraving materials including plastics, glass, metal, wood, leather or even food. Laser cutting is a process ...

Tashkeel Talk: Working Collaboratively

bahraini –– danish

This Tashkeel Talk with Bahrain-based architecture and design studio bahraini –– danish is suitable for emerging and aspiring designers and architects in the GCC and the wider MENA region who are inte...

Precious Plastics

Hernán 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...

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...

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...

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...

Maker Faire: Tashkeel Playbox

Salim Ahmed

Construct and create! Drop in and build your very own playbox.