By Noam Weiner
event
Saturday 4 March 2017 ore 18:00 - 20:00

Design in the Middle.Nomadentity

Guido Reni hall – free entrance until full capacity

A talk to meet the participants in the workshop on the future of the Middle East and to dwell upon the main topics of such workshop

The workshop provides a group of selected Middle Eastern architects, designers and artists with the possibility to work together for the first time so as to design innovative solutions for the Middle East. The conference will see the presentation of the results of the Coreligious, Lost in Translation, Food Print and Digital Dunes groups with a focus on the Nomadentity group, which focuses on topics involving immigration, political borders and social-cultural identification.

Introduced by
Maria Alicata Fondazione Baruchello

Speakers
Presentation of the results of the workshop
Max Borka State of Design, Berlin
Doreen Toukian Founder and Director of MENA Design Research Center, Beirut and Beirut Design Week
Nomadentity
Laura M. Pana of the nonprofit organization Migrationlab, The Hague
Ghiath Al Jebawi architect and urban planner
Narges Mofarahian designer e inventor of AGRIshelter

Moderator
Orkan Telhan Emerging Design Practices, University of Pennsylvania

For further information, see www.designinthemiddle.org

Initiative by the MAXXI Foundation and the School of Redesign in collaboration with the Baruchello and Mondo Digitale foundations