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  • Every morning workshop extends over three consecutive mornings on November 10th, 11th and 12th from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
    Reshaping your environment through product design
    200.00 USD
    Reshaping your environment through product design
    Massoud Hassani

    In our daily life, we sometimes face problems or dilemmas that we are not always sure how to solve due to lack of resources. However, by simply changing perspective, they can be solved through basic objects that are available around us. In this thought provoking workshop, participants shall pick on those objects, highlight problems within their culture, and then be guided through the creative thinking process of Massoud to figure out solutions by transforming those objects into final new, functional products.
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    200.00 USD
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    Multimedia workshop (video) “REIMAGINE YOUR HISTORY”
    200.00 USD
    Multimedia workshop (video) “REIMAGINE YOUR HISTORY”
    Sundus Abdulhadi

    This workshop will utilize the medium of video to create a multimedia experience involving sound, text and image. The goal of the workshop will be to blend different Medias to create one final product that can be projected or screened in a site-specific installation (website and/or public space). The theme of the workshop will be under the umbrella of the Nuqat Conference 2013 theme, “Executing Culture Shock”.
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    200.00 USD
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    3D Printing & the 3rd Industrial Revolution
    200.00 USD
    3D Printing & the 3rd Industrial Revolution
    IAAC Barcelona

    By Areti Markopoulou and Anastasia Pistofidou
    Going through the process of fabricating small objects with the use of a 3D printer such as the Makerbot allows the user to tackle economical, social, and cultural factors. The user can now access files, amend and adapt them to be fabricated or shared for the possibilities of further amendments or production for different cultures beyond geographical boundaries.
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    200.00 USD
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    Culture Shock
    200.00 USD
    Culture Shock
    Reza Abedini

    Poster Design (more info to come)

    200.00 USD
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  • Every afternoon workshop extends over three consecutive evenings on November 10th, 11th and 12th from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
    Light Calligraphy (calligraphy and photography): Light in Kuwait
    200.00 USD
    Light Calligraphy (calligraphy and photography): Light in Kuwait
    Karim Jabbari

    Light in Kuwait is an initiative to take the participants in an unforgettable artistic journey where calligraphy meets photography in an amazing way.
    The workshop can be done in an open Space at night time or the participants can be taken in a bus to the main attractions of the city and let them discover those through a different eye. In fact they will look for the city's hidden beauty and try to catch it with their lenses making that beautiful short moment last forever.
    The light calligraphy brings a new dimension to the photography experience, in fact by adding the calligraphy through various moves and gestures combining the physical exercise to photography. A quite brilliant combination that is worth trying.
    Using the calligraphy around the city makes every natural scene become a potential canvas.
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    200.00 USD
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    Music writing and recording: Words and the World via The Narcicyst
    200.00 USD
    Music writing and recording: Words and the World via The Narcicyst
    The Narcicyst

    In this workshop exclusive to Nuqat, join celebrated musician Yassin “The Narcicyst” Alsalman as he shares his insights on music, writing, recording and the arts.
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    200.00 USD
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    Experimental Arabic Typography Workshop: Graphics in the Environment
    200.00 USD
    Experimental Arabic Typography Workshop: Graphics in the Environment
    Tarek Atrissi

    (New typography workshop by Tarek Atrissi given for the first time in Kuwait)
    In this experimental Arabic typography workshop, participants will be asked to collect typographic material from everyday's life and incorporating it in a creative way in a contemporary design. The workshop will use then "just typography" as ingredient, which will be collected and documented from an urban context or from a vernacular context, and this collected typographic material will be decomposed and employed in a totally new graphic design context. The result will be various pieces in various media (branding, print, products, fashion, space...) that uses a typographic language created from the process taught in the workshop.
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    200.00 USD
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    Product Design: 3d Printing: Cultural change and new technology offers new opportunities
    200.00 USD
    Product Design: 3d Printing: Cultural change and new technology offers new opportunities
    Younes Duret

    The acceleration of innovation in those recent years gives designers new ways to imagine and create. 3D printer is one of the most important technological developments we had lately... The meeting between Arab culture and this new technology will allow us to create objects as innovative as unexpected.
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    200.00 USD
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    Monstariam’s Workshop of Awesome
    200.00 USD
    Monstariam’s Workshop of Awesome
    Monstariam

    This workshop will give the participants the opportunity of discovering their own style and the implementation techniques for street art.
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    200.00 USD
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