Keywords:
How can we extract meaning from ‘religion-as-brand’ to inform a multidisciplinary research on Islam, identity and mediation in the digital age?
How did Arab-Muslim encounters with Orientalism shape the colonised mind? And how to mediate Islam through the lens of academic decolonization?
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?
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?
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.
How can we extract meaning from ‘religion-as-brand’ to inform a multidisciplinary research on Islam, identity and mediation in the digital age?
How did Arab-Muslim encounters with Orientalism shape the colonised mind? And how to mediate Islam through the lens of academic decolonization?
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?
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?
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.
A pledge for politicizing Arabic type design, overturning exclusionary notions of ‘quality,’ and challenging classist gatekeeping to the profession.