22, 23 & 24 January
Location: IGA premises and former Nasawiya space, Fleming Street, Mar Mikhael.
PDF Program: Session 02 Programme
All workshops are free and require pre-registration on ihjoz
Toolbox is a series of workshops for artists, craftsmen and designers. It will expose creatives to new technologies and innovative techniques; provide them with the needed business, entrepreneurial, and marketing skills; and facilitate collaboration and co-creation between artists, craftsmen and designers.
Toolbox will be happening over 3 days: 22nd, 23rd & 24th of January.
DAY 1 will expose creatives to new technologies and innovative techniques
DAY 2 will provide creatives with the needed entrepreneurial, and marketing skills to create their own businesses.
After the first two days of training artists, craftsmen and designers will spend DAY 3 collaborating to create products and their respective business plans and present them to a jury. Members of the jury include: Kafalat, RDCL - Rassemblement de Dirigeants et Chefs d'entreprises Libanais, UNESCO, a design market expert and a design process expert.
To participate on Day 3, creatives need to have attended a minimum of 2 workshops on Days 1 and 2 and sign up at the IGA premises by 12pm on Day 2.
By the end of 2015, these products will be further developed between the artists, craftsmen and designers of MEDNETA’s partner cities (Athens, Tunis, Valencia, Florence and Hebron) and exhibited around the Mediterranean