Wait up for My.Kali Manifesto soon!
إنتظروا مانيفستو ماي.كالي.قريباً
Project:manifesto invites you for the screening of
BABA
A sit down with Ali Maher
On Wed, 27th of Feb, 2013
at 7 pm
Hosted by Makan
مشروع: مانيفستو يدعوكم لحضور عرض
بابا
جلسة مع علي ماهر
يوم الأربعاء ٢٧ شباط ٢.١٣
الساعة السابعة مساء
مكان العرض: مكان
قبل فترة، إنحطت هاي الصورة على صفحة مشروع مانيفستو، مع دعوة للإحتفاء بأطول برج أردني ( ١٨٥م) وأن برج روتانا هو معلم حصري يجب أن نحتفل بوجوده.شو رأيكم بالموضوع؟ هل عمّان بحاجة لبرج آخر؟ وهل المعالم لازم تكون كبيرة حجماً؟
A while ago, this picture was uploaded on our wall.It was a clear invitation to celebrate the national achievement of the tallest Jordanian Tower(185m) .So,manifesters, what do you think? Do we need yet another tower in Amman?
سيستضيف “مشروع: مانيفستو” فريق عمل”إنعكاس” في حوار حضري ٤. ستنحدث معاً
عن الفن الحضري وإمكاناته وآثاره على النسيج العمراني والهندسة المعمارية في عمان، بالإضافة إلى رسائل هذا الفن الكامنة في شوارعنا. سنتحدث عن “إنعكاس” كنموذج أولي لمشروع للفن حضري المجتمعي في عمان، وسنستضيف بعض الفنانين المشاركين، بالإضافة إلى عدد قليل من الضيوف الخاصة بنا.
شاركونا بحضوركم
يوم الأربعاء، ٦ شباط،٢٠١٣
دارة الفنون - المختبر
This Hiwar will be about Urban Art and its implications on the Urban Fabric and Architecture of Amman, its potential and underlying messages we find everywhere on the walls on our streets. Also, taking the ‘Urban Reflections’ project as a prototype of an active community Urban Art project in Amman, and hosting some of the Artists who were involved, in addition to few of our own guests.
Join us
this Wednesday, 6th of Feb,2013
Darat Al Funun - the Lab


A picture for the Sakakini Neighborhood in 1960s cairo.The Sakakini is the name of one of the oldest prestigious Egyptian families from Syrian origin in Cairo.The Palace in the middle is the Skakini Palace that was built in 1897, that still exists yet not maintained properly.
So we in Project: manifesto team had one tiny argument once we saw this picture, and posted on facebook asking it looks more like Jabal Amman, Malhaas hospital or Ma’mouniyyeh park in Jabal Al Hussein?

Team Dima:
On one hand, Jabal Amman’s Malhaas Hospital relates to the Sakakini neighborhood in the sense of a building of importance being in the center, and the rest of the neighborhood of less important buildings organically radiates from that center,in a radial configuration forming a perfect circle.

Team Hamza:
On the other hand,Ma’mouniyyeh neighborhood is this dense radial configuration of a neighborhood that organizes around the kidney shaped void, rather than a building mass of the urban lansdscape.However, its dense radial configuration is very similar to Sakakini Neighborhood in old Cairo.
So, are you in team Hamza or Dima?
The Ammani street has been fighting against internet censorship for a while now, which caused a huge question mark about the moral cultural code to rise to the surface. Mlabbas’ shop front responded to the Ammani street by censoring their display window. I have to say how much I admire this simple urban intervention that left you thinking !!!
dima maurice | project: manifesto
reblogged from the the-ammani
Lets watch a movie together !!
I’ve always wondered how can you empower a community? How can you build a healthy relationship with the space you live in, when you don’t even feel that you belong to it? How can you teach your children how to love the land they live on? How can you even start convincing people that their neighbors are not the predators and that we’re all brothers, not cousins, brothers? Well, last Friday I got the answer to these questions: a garden!
My friend and I (from Project: Manifesto team) went to “Hada’iq Al-Hurriyeh” or “The Freedom Gardens” to explore the scene, since we heard that there is some serious action happening in Jabal Amman.
In a “Hay Al Masarweh” or “The Egyptian Neighborhood” where a high percentage of the lower working class (which we recently call poor) live, we found An Selm with Omar Al-Nimer and few other volunteers and the neighborhood children working on a their own freedom garden.
Every Friday morning they work on turning a neglected piece of land, which they took permission to use, into a garden and a playground for the neighborhood. But it’s how they are doing it what makes it interesting. The gardens are totally being created from the limited resources of the neighborhood itself .No funding what so ever. The volunteers bring their own tools, and both the volunteers and the children dig with their own hands the sloped land, without any bulldozers or anything like it. But what I loved the most about the gardens is how the children interacted with the volunteers, asking them questions about the land planting and discussing how would they make “The Freedom Gardens “ a reality.
You can see that those young children will grow up better humans than us. More loving, more accepting, more environmentally responsible, more loyal but above all they will be adults who can make dreams come true.
Ammanis, I encourage you to get involved and support freedom gardens. How? by just showing up and volunteering with your time and effort.
Dima Maurice | Project: Manifesto







Photos are courtesy of Omar Al Nimer
For more information check Freedom Gardens FB page
جدلية الزّمان في عمارة عمّان
محاضرة في دارة الفنون للمعماري الكبير جعفر طوقان
الخميس ٢٥-٧-٢٠٠٢
Dialectic of time in the architecture of Amman
A lecture in Darat Al Funun by the respected Architect Mr.Ja’adar Tuqan
Thursday 25 th of July ,2002
reblogged from Darat Al Funun Youtube Channel
رح يكون هادا اللقاء فرصة رائعة لنسمع أكثر عن “ميثاق عمّان ” من الدكتور محمد الأسد و نتناقش معه فيه
يوم الثلاثاء 22 أيار(مايو) 2012
في الساعة السادسة و النصف
دارة الفنون
شارع نديم الملاح- جبل اللويبده
عمان - الأردن
دارة الفنون
www.daratalfunun.org
+962 64643251/2
This talk will be a great chance for us to hear more about and discuss “Amman Charter ” with Dr.Mohammad Al-Asad.
Tuesday, 22nd of May,2012
6:30 pm at Darat Al-Funun
Nadime al Mallah St, Jabal Lweibdeh, Amman, Jordan
Darat Al-Funun:
www.daratalfunun.org
+962 64643251/