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This campaign has ended on 01-01-2019
Campaign by: Disarming Design From Palestine
Campaign Summary
Disarming Design from Palestine is establishing an alternative design school responding to the need for a vibrant design program which maintains an active relationship with the local design and crafts communities, and can be flexible in its format.
Problem
Many craftsmen and designers are active in Palestine, but due to the occupation and the often marginalized positions, they lack enough work, innovation and exposure. There is a need for a vibrant design program which maintains an active relationship with the local design and crafts communities, and can be flexible in its format.
Solution
Our alternative school is focussing on the local community, who can participate in the events we host, or enjoy the beautiful courtyard and get inspired. Palestinian producers will benefit from the production of our products, the participation in our workshops and other future collaborations between them and the Palestinian design community. Students from the Birzeit University (focussing on Architecture & Design faculty) join events, workshops and host activities themselves. Designers from all over Palestine are offered a new place to meet, share ideas on design and do research in the library, and they will participate in the special product-design-workshops that we will organize.
International designers will participate through a residency that includes design development and teaching, and we’ll offer them a space to do research. And on a global level, the activities will contribute to the distribution of alternative narratives from Palestine through design and the understanding of the position of designers within this
About Disarming Design From Palestine
Disarming Design from Palestine is a thought-provoking design label that develops, presents and sells useful goods from Palestine, designed by contemporary designers and artists in collaboration with local producers. The label aims to spread alternative narratives about contemporary Palestine and reflect upon the function of creative practices in situations of conflict.
Number of supporters
raised out of €8,000
Countries
This campaign made us good friends with the BuildPalestine team. They coached us from A to Z on how to create and promote the campaign. Today, members of their network has joined our projects
Social Innovation Bootcamp: Tackling Challenges in The Palestinian Health Sector
The Social Innovation Bootcamp is a 20 hour intensive bootcamp, run by BuildPalestine and uMake. The two day training uses a human-centered approach and leverages design thinking to guide social entrepreneurs through the stages of ‘inspiration, ideation, and iteration’ focused on the pre-incubation stage.
The bootcamp serves as a space to ideate solutions for challenges discussed during our annual summit. We recently published a report on the main challenges facing the health sector in Palestine following the Health Sector in Palestine: Challenges and opportunities panel at our 2021 Summit. The BuildPalestine team put out a call for solutions and held our first social innovation bootcamp of the year to tackle challenges and realities in the Palestinian health sector.
15 professionals and students from the Palestinian health sector joined the bootcamp to design impactful interventions for the community. The 20 hour bootcamp followed a design thinking methodology to delve into problem identification, brainstorming solutions, prototyping, and iterating.
Participants left with a new found understanding of problems in the sector, and were equipped with the tools to take steps to address them.
“It was an amazing experience to say the least, and I learned a lot about the design thinking model.” – Salma Khalaf, Founder, Youth in Leadership
“We ideated solutions for the most important challenges the health sector faces, and we were able to prototype solutions as a first step to address these challenges.” – Momen AbuSada, Medical Student
Stay tuned for our upcoming bootcamps for a chance to participate!
مخيم الابتكار المجتمعي هو برنامج تدريبي مكثف لمدة 20 ساعة ، تديره بيلدباليستاين ويوميك. يستخدم التدريب نهجًا يركز ويعزز التفكير التصميمي لتوجيه رواد الأعمال المجتمعيين خلال مراحل “الإلهام والتفكير والتكرار” والتي تركز على مرحلة ما قبل الحضانة.
يعمل المعسكر التدريبي كمساحة لابتكار حلول للتحديات التي نوقشت خلال مؤتمرنا السنوي. نشرنا مؤخرًا تقريرًا عن التحديات الرئيسية التي تواجه قطاع الصحة في فلسطين، وبذلك عقدنا أول معسكر تدريبي للابتكار الاجتماعي لهذا العام.
انضم 15 مهنيًا وطالبًا من قطاع الصحة الفلسطيني إلى المخيم التدريبي لتصميم تدخلات فعالة للمجتمع. اتبع المخيم التدريبي منهجية التفكير التصميمي للتعمق في تحديد المشكلات وحلول العصف الذهني والنماذج الأولية والتكرار. غادر المشاركون مع فهم جديد وجد للمشاكل في القطاع ، وتم تزويدهم بالأدوات اللازمة لاتخاذ خطوات لمعالجتها.
لقد كانت تجربة رائعة على أقل تقدير ، وتعلمت الكثير عن نموذج التفكير التصميمي.” – سلمى خلف ، مؤسسة”
Youth in Leadership
لقد ابتكرنا حلولًا لأهم التحديات التي يواجهها قطاع الصحة، وتمكنا من وضع نماذج أولية للحلول كخطوة أولى” لمواجهة هذه التحديات.” – مؤمن أبو سعدة ـ طالب طب بشري