‘Building a Painting – With Robots, ‘Building Value from Conflict’, ‘Digital Craft. Carbon Fiber Bicycle, ‘The Architecture of the Body’ and ‘Fologram’ are just a few of the workshops taking place at the prestigious art and design conference at the QF partner university.
Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar (VCUarts Qatar), a Qatar Foundation (QF) partner university, presents the next edition of Tasmeem Doha titled ‘Under Construction’ from 2-5 March 2024.
This year, the event will be held at various locations across the city, including but not limited to VCUarts Qatar’s campus in Education City, M7 in Msheireb Downtown Doha, and Expo 2023 Doha in Al Bidda Park. As with previous editions, the conference consists of workshops, panel discussions, and expert talks.
The public is welcome to attend the events that take place on Saturday, 2 March, from 3 pm to 7 pm, free of charge. Public attendees need to register at tasmeem.qatar.vcu for the Tasmeem Doha Open Day. The full program of workshops and panels is also available on this website.
Tasmeem Doha is an international, biennial art and design conference hosted and organised by VCUarts Qatar since 2004.
Each edition of Tasmeem Doha highlights a unique and contemporary theme within art and design, exploring novel concepts, methods, and applications through masterclasses, discussions, and workshops led by pioneers and renowned specialists in various fields.
This year’s theme, ‘Under Construction’, calls to mind the critical role that art and design play in inspiring and implementing change.
To be ‘Under Construction’ is to be active, to be activated, and to lead to positive change. ‘Under Construction’ is also a metaphor for creative research and the application of such research to inspire novel solutions to existing societal concerns.
These processes of construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction can be addressed at all levels, from the individual to the global community. This is why the latest edition of Tasmeem Doha presents a wide range of perspectives in its program schedule.
The three-day event features technology gurus, critical theorists, and robot makers, in addition to practitioners in those core elements of art and design that VCUarts Qatar is currently engaging with.
The workshops have been carefully curated to reflect this range. While workshops such as ‘Building a Painting—With Robots’, ‘Digital Craft. Carbon Fiber Bicycle’, and ‘Fologram’ highlight the use of digital fabrication and virtual reality (VR) in design processes, others such as ‘Building Value from Conflict’ and ‘Reviving Third Places: A Case Study of an Education City Cultural Heritage Site’ place psychological and cultural elements, tangible and intangible, front and centre.
‘Under Construction’ takes place during the 25th anniversary year of Virginia Commonwealth University’s campus in Doha, Qatar. To mark the uniqueness of this year, Tasmeem Doha 2024 also features returning speakers and workshop leaders, Richmond-based VCUarts faculty, and VCUarts Qatar alumni, all of whom led or were involved in previous editions of the conference.
Tasmeem Doha 2024 ‘Under Construction’ takes place with the generous support of Lead Sponsor Ashgal, Sponsor Sasol, and Community Partners Clay Encounters, Qatar Auto Museum, Earthna, and FROMM.
The public is welcome to attend the events that take place on Saturday, 2 March, from 3 pm to 7 pm, free of charge. Public attendees need to register at tasmeem.qatar.vcu for the Tasmeem Doha Open Day. The full program of workshops and panels is also available on this website.
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