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A pledge for politicizing Arabic type design, overturning exclusionary notions of ‘quality,’ and challenging classist gatekeeping to the profession.
The Design Exit is a project that negotiates repositioning design outside of the art-school system (within a European-context), and discusses the overdue critical turn in design education as a form of alter-reality.
Self-Orientalism projects ‘underdevelopment’ as a unique selling proposition in the Arab region – specifically in creative industries. How to rethink the colonial angle and develop a counter-brand?
How to reassess the split between digital productions as forms of liberal self-expression and religious extremism as led by online-Takfiris? And who owns the digital vernacular?
How did Arab-Muslim encounters with Orientalism shape the colonised mind? And how to mediate Islam through the lens of academic decolonization?
How can we extract meaning from ‘religion-as-brand’ to inform a multidisciplinary research on Islam, identity and mediation in the digital age?
A pledge for politicizing Arabic type design, overturning exclusionary notions of ‘quality,’ and challenging classist gatekeeping to the profession.
The Design Exit is a project that negotiates repositioning design outside of the art-school system (within a European-context), and discusses the overdue critical turn in design education as a form of alter-reality.
Self-Orientalism projects ‘underdevelopment’ as a unique selling proposition in the Arab region – specifically in creative industries. How to rethink the colonial angle and develop a counter-brand?
How to reassess the split between digital productions as forms of liberal self-expression and religious extremism as led by online-Takfiris? And who owns the digital vernacular?
How did Arab-Muslim encounters with Orientalism shape the colonised mind? And how to mediate Islam through the lens of academic decolonization?
How can we extract meaning from ‘religion-as-brand’ to inform a multidisciplinary research on Islam, identity and mediation in the digital age?