MENA Design Research Center

We are taking part in Tandem 360° Partner Forum taking place both offline and online connecting cultural organizations and actors from Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, and Libya.
Tandem 360° is a one year program offering a space to experiment with multidisciplinary project ideas, ecosystem mapping and inventive approaches to create change through culture.
Tandem is an initiative of European Cultural Foundation and MitOst e.V.

Hi designer friends!

Organizations working in the development and humanitarian sector often have a need to rapidly identify and contract designers for short-term engagements; To meet this need, IRC is recruiting a Talent Pool of freelance designers to support projects in the Middle East region. Shortlisted applicants will become the go-to list for design talent, as project needs arise.

We're looking for designers with a range of technical skills and experience levels who are able to work with displaced communities. Is that you? Or do you know a talented designer who'd be a great fit? Please apply and/or share the job description in your networks!

https://rescue.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/10152?c=rescue.

Designers for social impact, check, apply, and share these great new job vacancies the UNDP Lebanon!

Let the disruption begin!
We are launching our and are looking for unusual suspects ready to break the mould as our Head of Solutions Mapping, Head of Exploration and Head of Experimentation.
Is it you? Check it out: undp.org.lb/jobs/index.cfm

Do you have exposure to or experience in design research, UX, service design, or human-centered design? Are you interested in design work in the humanitarian or development sector (e.g. iNGOs or UN agencies) but not sure how to start?

The International Rescue Committee, in collaboration with Beirut Design Week, MENA Design Research Center, MIT Enterprise Forum, Pan Arab Region, and UNDP Lebanon, will be hosting a 2.5 day workshop on the weekend of December 1-2.

The workshop will explore how to adapt design research methodologies—from planning to prototyping—when working with vulnerable communities. You'll also cover topics like research ethics, sector-specific jargon, and how to navigate being the only designer in the room.

Apply here: https://goo.gl/forms/YAOjFrntEvNwOeB62

Apply ASAP, and please share widely!
Deadline is Sunday 25th November at midnight.

Call for applications relevant to designers in Lebanon. Deadline 29 November!

Contemporary Audio-visual content in 21st Century Lebanon Call for Concept Notes | Hivos Middle East & North Africa Hivos seeks concept notes from artist collectives, creative hubs and groups of content creators in the audio-visual sector in order to encourage the production of more independent work and content and to support those initiatives to become more independent, self-sufficient and to reach larger audien...

Մեր ֆորումի յոթ խոսնակները ապրելով տարբեր երկրներում՝ ԱՄՆ, Արգենտինա, Բելգիա, Հայաստան, Լիբանան, Նիդերլանդներ, յուրաքանչյուրը սեփական փորձառությամբ անդրադարձան սոցիալական դիզայնի ընդարձակ թեմային։ Ելույթների վերնագրերը՝ ստորեւ, իսկ նման իվենթների շարունակությունը՝ մոտ ապագայում ;)

1. Gayane Yerkanyan - "Design thinking and human-centered design"
2. Doreen Toutikian - "Design and the Social Enterprise"
3. Sarah Rombouts - "Product design as means for storytelling"
4. Asya Yaghmurian - "How we came UP with the design pavilion"
5. Ari Hadjian - "Social architecture for social change: Lina Bo Bardi"
6. Mayranush Davtyan - "Toprak Petq Chi" campaign & sustainable design"
7. Rostom Kouyoumdjian- "Collective mentality within creative communities"

Photos by Arthur Lumen Photography.

So it started! Workshop session on design-driven social entrepreneurship with Doreen Toutikian ✏️

Thank you Proper Company and Tumo Center for Creative Technologies for inviting us to take part in the first social design experiment in Yerevan!

Group exercise - workshop participants divided into working groups of Environmental, Educational and Community Development teams.

Next Stop: Workshop in Yerevan, Armenia

Design for Social Impact Communications design and digital marketing strategy to surprise, delight, intrigue, inform, engage, impact, persuade and influence.

Thank you RSA (Royal Society of Art) for featuring our conference on critical design! We have launched a call for submissions open to anyone willing to speak in this conference that is happening on May 20th at Sursock Museum, about critical design and critical theory in arts, humanities, design, etc. Pass on this message to bring new forms of design discussions to and from the MENA region!

Conference on Critical Design - RSA The MENA Design Research Center is pleased to host an interdisciplinary conference that focuses on the value of critical theory to design, arts, social sciences, and media.