August 2024 Time: 02:52 PM
مَسَاحَةٌ لِلتَّجَـــــــــــــــــــارُبِمُشَــارَكَةِ المَعْـرِفَةِ، تَنْمِيَةِالْأَبْحَاثِ، وَنَشْـرِ الكِتَابَاتِ.
A SPACE FOR EXPERIMENTATION,
SHARING KNOWLEDGE, DEVELOPING
RESEARCH, AND WRITING.
About
01/What
This space aims to facilitate conversations about design as a human practice and a field of study. We currently recognize an urgent need for designers to start writing about and engage with design in more ways than just making work. We strongly believe that developing a critical practice is vital to design, especially in our region. It can help mediate and bridge the knowledge gap in our design history and formulate practice theories.
Through initiating and developing research projects, conducting investigative initiatives, publishing, and curation which will encourage cross-discipline conversations that can lead to a better understanding of design and create the friction that the field needs to progress.
It's a space where the community can cultivate a foundation of a relevant design.
WRITING
الكتابات | WRITINGS
We believe that writing is as fundamental to design as designing. Writing is a discussion and a way to inform/form a better design practice and theory, including the constant engagement with the questions of why, how, and what we design.
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RESEARCH
الأبحاث | RESEARCH
Research is where knowledge and ideas sprout. Design Repository is dedicated to developing and supporting the development of contextual Arabic design research initiatives that can push the field of design.
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Resource - Archive
The Arabic Film Archive
The Arab Film Archive is an initiative that aims at collecting and digitizing […]
Resource - Archive
Blank Video Cassettes Archive from 1977 – 2002
This website contains a huge collection of what is known as blank video […]
Resource - Book
The Grammar of Ornament
A Visual Reference of Form and Colour in Architecture and the Decorative Arts […]
Resource - Book
Arab Art as Seen Through the Monuments of Cairo: From 7th to the End of the 18th century
Arab art as seen through the monuments of Cairo: From the seventh century […]
Resource - Archive
The Palestinian Museum’s Digital Archive Project (PMDA)
With archival records nearing about two hundred thousand digitized items dealing with various […]
Resource - Archive
The Modern Art Iraq Archive (MAIA)
A resource to trace, share, and enable community enrichment of the modern art […]
Resource - Archive
Online Periodicals
A collection of digital Arabic, Persian, and Turkish periodicals and journals from the […]
Resource - Archive
Letterform Archive
A San Francisco nonprofit center for inspiration, education, and community, with a collection […]
Resource - Archive
Arabic Type Walks
This initiative aims to preserve, document, and publish Arabic street signs, arabic type, […]
Resource - Archive
Signs of Conflict
Signs of Conflict is a project that involves collecting, archiving, and studying the […]
Resource - Archive
Arc Archive
This unique graphic arts collection of around 130.000 posters from 150 countries, mainly […]
Resource - Archive
The Palestine Poster Project Archive
I first began collecting Palestine posters when I was a Peace Corps volunteer […]
Resource - Archive
Syrian Print Archive Project
Syrian Print Archive is a documentary project that aims to archive the development […]
Resource - Archive
Arabic Design Archive (ADA)
The Arabic Design Archive is a research initiative that is aiming to preserve, […]
Resource - Archive
Arabic Commercials Collection
Arabic commercial archive is an extension of the Arabic cover design archive project. […]