Textile Hybrids

I always considered Textiles as a very organic field. The main reason for this thought was the way I was trained as a textile designer. My alma mater believed in being true to mother earth, close to nature, and doing things by hand. Our teachings revolved around and mostly concentrated on natural materials, natural dyes,…

Human – Centered Designs;Reinvention through Hybrid and Technology

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” –Steve Jobs Interactive designs are a digital playground of music, sound and moving image. However, the purpose of human centered designs with technology should not tangle with any potentially harmful event. One can not deny the fact that till…

Untangling threads

Technology in fashion, technological fashion and technology for fashion. I wouldn't call myself someone that follows fashion trends. That being said, I do go to stores and pick out things I like, therefore it is unavoidable to become part of fashion on-goings, and to build preferences. I have favourites that I wear and re-wear, until…

Technology and Sustainability- Next Big Thing

"Every design ought to be Sustainable design, meaning something people refuse to trash” Kristina Dryza – Trend Forecaster Now that we are stepping into an entire new digitally transformed world, I am inquiring to find the link between sustainable development, material culture and technological amalgamation to reduce our digitally exhausted environments. In a contemporary global society,…

The ‘from-home’ approach

For someone who has barely left the house in the past 4 months, I've been surprisingly busy. I see friends and family turning to craft-making, baking and other new activities, but somehow no new time slots have made themselves available to me. There was a time where projects couldn't move forward without 'office meetings' and…

Designing Spaces

Zaha Hadid British Iraqi Architect 1950-2016 My interest in the field of architecture surprised me when I was in the 1st year of my art school National College of Arts. During my foundation year classes, I remember starting my work with the seal and then using my drafting skills to complete my tasks with pride.…

tu-tu mein-mein: Technology Edition

"Tu-tu mein-mein" could mean anything, ranging from harmless bickering, to a full-blown altercation. An idiomatic translation to English could be "he said, she said". This article is a short reflection of my thoughts, based on a few new things I've heard and seen in the past couple of days, specifically in an online class I…

Let’s talk Humans, Sustainability and Technology

What is sustainability?  If you look up the word in a dictionary it says:   ‘The ability to be maintained at a certain level or rate.’ This is the original meaning.  The new modified version is :  ‘The avoidance of depletion of natural resources to maintain an ecological balance’. Here we are talking about sustainability in…

Ferrari Aur Technology

OLD ROBOTS ARE BECOMING MORE HUMAN AND YOUNG HUMANS ARE BECOMING MORE LIKE ROBOTS. – Lorin Morgan-Richards Design Museum London organized an exhibition for the Ferrari cars lovers named as “Under the skin” in which vintage models to latest models with their different mechanical parts are displayed. This museum also organizes an exhibition with the…

Virtual Tour of Museums- The New Normal?

-Online Travel Blog (In response to the Online Class) “The incredible thing about the technology is that you feel like you’re actually present in another place with other people. People who try it say it’s different from anything they’ve ever experienced in their lives.” - Chris Milk, Founder of VRSE Virtual experience has become a…

T & T- My Expectations

if we teach today's students as taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrowJohn Dewey So I log in for my first class of Tools and Technologies in Art Education. Not having enough time to go through the course outline, I set all my assumptions and expectations solely on the title of the course. Something like…

Keeping Up With The Times: Museums, archives & exhibitions

A personal reflection based on a group discussion. When was the last time you visited a museum? Does your city have a museum for you to visit? How much of the information available to you, did you understand and absorb? Did you have any inquiries? And how successfully were they resolved? You may be an…