febrik

Febrik is a not-for-profit collaborative platform for...

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Febrik is a not-for-profit collaborative platform for participatory art and design research projects with practicing architects, designers and artists active in the Middle East and the UK.

Febrik’s main area of concern lies in the dynamics and practices of public spaces in relation to social and urban change; in specific in relation to negotiations of right of space within spaces of refuge of previously unrepresented groups such as children and women. We focus on the use of art-and-design-based research methodologies and processes (architecture/ art/ film/ photography/ text) to enhance community participation and action and to develop propositional thinking with regards to the immediate social and physical environment.

Febrik approach projects by thinking creatively in small scale and within existing resources. Through a process of research, educational workshops and participatory design, the methodology facilitates site and community specific dialogue and knowledge, the exchange of skills and ideas with local partners and the development of participatory tools for proposition. These include short and long term site-specific programmatic and spatial interventions (such as exhibitions, events, installations and permanent public structures and spaces)

Through a series of project (primarily in Palestinian Refugee Camps in the Middle East and more recently in marginal housing estates in London) Febrik has developed a series of research and design projects exploring ideas of the social playground, as public multi-functional and intergenerational spaces enabling spatial and temporal negotiations and overlaps in appropriation of previously unrepresented groups.

Febrik is a partnership set up by Joumana al Jabri, Reem Charif and Mohamad Hafeda in collaboration with local partners and creative networks.

Contributing Team (past and present)

Fida Abdel Rahman
Iman Bekdash
Greg Sheng
Dalal Abed El Rahman
Sahar Hafeda
Salah Hamza
Shaker Jarrar
Marwan Kaabour
Abeer Kassem
Pippa Murray
Sophana Sophanpanich
Ramsey Yassa

Febrik will be speaking at the An activist design conference...

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Febrik will be speaking at the

An activist design conference working toward solutions held in Amsterdam on the 11 and 12th of May 2012.

The 2012 edition of What Design Can Do explores the positive and negative sides of a connected world and looks into the role of the designer as a connector. With speakers from all parts of the world, What Design Can Do itself will be the intersection for the design profession in its search for better human co-operation and solidarity. Connecting worlds is in the designer’s nature. What Design Can Do will showcase that feature of the creative mind. (source http://www.whatdesigncando.nl/conference/theme/)

Reem Charif: reem@febrik.org+ 447879493527 (UK)+...

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Reem Charif: reem@febrik.org
+ 447879493527 (UK)
+ 9613298865 (Lebanon)

Mohamad Hafeda: mohamad@febrik.org
+ 447583411395 (UK)
+ 96170969942 (Lebanon)

Joumana al Jabri: joumana@febrik.org
+ 9613953012 (Lebanon)
+ 971502421447 (UAE)

Shop of Possibilities, South London, UK Edge of Play, Talbiyeh...

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Shop of Possibilities, South London, UK

Edge of Play, Talbiyeh camp, Jordan

Play Pockets, Nahr el Bared, Lebanon

Play Space, Burj el Barajneh, Lebanon

Dream Project 2, Burj el Barajneh, Lebanon

Dream Project 1, Burj el Barajneh, Lebanon

PUBLICATIONS Creative Refuge: The book acts as an educational...

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PUBLICATIONS

Creative Refuge: The book acts as an educational manual for art-based contextual creative learning with children in space of refuge ; a catalogue of the children’s stories, dreams, play spaces and games; and a research documenting the social and spatial findings of Dream (1 and 2) and Play Space project workshops held in Burj El Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon. The book gives glimpses of the current camp’s environment and social context; specifically of the reciprocal relationship between the spatial conditions in the camp and the social practices invented in response to living within it. Creative Refuge is not yet in print. more details

EVENTS

South London Gallery, Mobile Conference 2, London, April 2011

Negotiating the Politics of Public Space London, (with Samar Maakaron)

Talks hosted by Al-Ma’mal Foundation and the A.M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah, June 2010

Engage “Play, Galleries and Family Learning” London, 15 April 2010

Sharjah Art Foundation, March Meetings, March 2010

International Architecture Biennale “Open City: Designing Coexistence” Rotterdam, January 2010

Future Perfect: Art, Gallery Education and Regeneration engage/enquire International Conference London, 2009

START and the British Council train local artists in Lebanon, November 2007

ARTICLES

The Cat Came as a Tomato; Conversations on play and contemporary
art practice from the South London Gallery; “Curious Objects”, p:156-
162

This Week In Palestine “Children’s Space”, Issue 154, February 2011

Volume 26 - Architecture of Peace - “Working in a Palestinian Refugee camp:Talbiyeh, Jordan”, Dec 2010

Future Exhibitions 2 - Riksutstallningar Swedish Traveling Exhibitions - Febrik, 2010 (by Helen Elizabeth Cocker)

Engage Journal 25 “Family Learning ‘Febrik, Play and the Urban Context’”, 2010