Tarkib is a Baghdad-based platform that unites artists and cultural practitioners dedicated to promoting emerging local artists through research, training, and the production and presentation of contemporary art. The platform’s Bait Tarkib is being developed into a flagship creative art centre, exemplifying holistic, sustainable, and environmentally friendly living and working. Their project will create and […]
Yabous is a non-governmental Palestinian organisation that established the largest cultural centre in Jerusalem, offering a venue for celebrating and sharing cultural traditions and fostering artistic interaction. Their Enlighten Yabous: Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Initiative aims to enhance the centre’s energy efficiency by conducting an energy audit and investing in energy-efficient appliances and LED lighting, […]
Balloon is a collective of passionate young individuals from humanitarian and civil society backgrounds. Based in Raqqa, they are dedicated to bringing joy and resilience to conflict-affected children and communities by creating safe spaces for learning, healing, and economic empowerment. Project Carbon Negative Raqqa aims to foster sustainable urban lifestyles by enhancing environmental literacy and […]
The Touria and Abdelaziz Tazi Foundation is dedicated to promoting creation and culture through its multidisciplinary cultural space, L’uZine, in Casablanca. Muchtale is a rooftop garden at L’uZine, established to tackle the city’s ecological challenges and scarcity of green spaces. This innovative project aims to enhance urban green infrastructure and raise environmental awareness, especially among […]
The Mosaic Room is a leading London-based contemporary arts space that facilitates collective learning, idea exchange and support for emerging and established contemporary artists from the Arab world and beyond. Their collaboration with the Beirut Art Center in Lebanon through War-torn Ecologies: Resistant Worlds has yielded a multidisciplinary artistic programme that provides new and critical […]
The Wapping Project is a platform for the continuous development of ideas and people that has supported creatives for over forty years. Registered in England, it works through commissioning and production of new works in collaboration with international partners. Sharjah Art Foundation (SAF) is an advocate, catalyst and producer of contemporary art within the Emirate […]
Representing the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London is Palestinian architect and visual artist Dima Srouji. Dima, alongside British Anthropologist Emilie Glazer and Palestinian artist and co-founder of the Jerusalem-based Fiction Council Ahmad Nabil, are working to revive ancient Palestinian legends and myths of water and sky through the Rain Collectors. By staging interactive […]
Thiss Studio, a London-based team of architects who challenge the conventions of the built environment, in collaboration with the Cairo Lab for Urban Studies, Training, and Environmental Research (CLUSTER), as well as Orient Productions, have launched Localizing Climate Change: Creative Engagement in Community Parks. This series of Arts-in-Parks interventions will serve as a response to […]
Centre for Contemporary (CCA) in Glasgow have collaborated with the Mothership Tangier, an experimental eco-campus for growing, making, and learning natural dyes and indigenous traditions to expand their global network of community growers through the Glasgow Seed Library. This urban seed initiative collaborates with community gardens and local organisations to offer open-pollinated, climate-adapted vegetable, herb, […]
