Projects
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The Red Macadam
li li k.s.a (MM)
Every day feels like a walk with this weight pressing down. It is a new beginning in a strange land, a culture unfamiliar yet somehow comforting. Despite the distance, I hold on to the threads that connect me to my loved ones back home. They are a lifeline, a constant reminder of the fight that…
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The Queer Muslim Project
Rafiul Alom Rahman (IN), Rachita Sai Barak (IN), Maniza Khalid (IN)
The Queer Muslim Project is Asia’s leading digital and cultural platform for queer, Muslim, and diverse voices, with a growing global community of over 70,000 people. Nurturing underrepresented LGBTQIA+ talent, it provides them with the tools, resources and networks to tell stories that can generate sustainable change. The project’s programs include Language is a Queer…
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Swimming Lesson
Vardit Goldner (IL)
A swimming lesson for Bedouin girls in a waterless “pool” owing to the lack of swimming pools accessible to Bedouins in Israel.
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Poisonous Meadow
Saddam Jumaily (IQ)
In those poisoned fields where the flowers of deceptive values flourish, people’s dreams rot and die smothered by the roots of political authority that wears the sacred crown of religion in order to enslave people. What happens in the shadows remains unseen. Truth dies to enable poisonous flowers to flourish.
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Nanna Langa
Indu Antony (IN)
Nanna Langa (translated from Kannada as “my skirt”) is a transformative art installation comprising a monumental 23-feet-long skirt, intricately woven with the intimate stories of women from Namma Katte, an inclusive leisure center in Bengaluru, India.
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Immersive Sky Experience
Paribartana Mohanty (IN)
Immersive Sky Experience is an AI/ML moderated interactive public platform that forecasts on a minute-to-minute basis weather changes in specific micro-geographical areas. It is designed to facilitate climate-vulnerable marginal communities from the Indian coastal state of Odisha to share their environmental stories and experiences. The project collects and analyses data — particularly environmental disaster photographs…
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Heating Season
Vasya Dmytryk (UA)
Heating Season originated as research of a particular creative community at a shipyard in Odesa, where organic and mechanical solidarities intersect and new semantic connections between industrial systems and the natural environment are formed.
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Fertility Performance
Nina Bulgakova (UA), Anastasiia Mostova (UA), Kateryna Zhuravlova (UA)
Who are they? Where and why do they drag their stones? What must a woman go through to give birth? What tests does the goddess face on the path to creating something? The way turns into girlish passion and obsession. A tender sisterhood turns into a bitter struggle. Humility and disobedience. The old must die,…
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Design to Live
Azra Aksamija & MIT Future Heritage Lab (US)
This project demonstrates how Syrian refugees at the Azraq Camp in Jordan use art and design to transform their environment, restoring humanity amid deprived circumstances. Featuring more than 20 innovative projects, it showcases design as a world-making practice and as a tool for reclaiming agency and hope. From vertical gardens to privacy-enhancing structures, these creations…
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A Woman’s Odyssey
Leila Samari (IR), Maryam Sehhat (IR)
A Woman’s Odyssey is an inner journey, one that confronts the outside world and finds a way out of suffering. Perhaps these sufferings and paradoxes, like death and life, darkness and light, bad and good things, comprise the process that make you who you are. This project is a combination of poetry and visual and…