Four applications from Tunisia selected among nominees for the 2024 Arab World Institute Design Prize

Tunis: Four candidacies from Tunisia have been selected among the nominees for the 2024 Arab World Institute (IMA) Design Award in its three categories: "Emerging Talent", "Confirmed Talent" and "Entrepreneurial Talent".In the "Emerging Talent" Award category, which rewards a design production made by a designer or architect under 34, architect-designer Hassene Jeljeli was selected with his "Iron Lamps" collection, which offers a modern and warm reinterpretation of the traditional Tunisian lamppost using perforated steel sheet as the main material. By combining artisanal and industrial techniques, each piece in the collection offers a contemporary aesthetic and optimal functionality.In the "Confirmed Talent" category, two candidacies were selected. The group of architects and designers Makram el-Kadi, Iheb Guermazi, Ziad Jamaleddine and Beya Othmani with their installation «Djerba, Prototype 366» which reinterprets the typology of the Djerba mosque in the context of the gallery space with a freestanding m ihrab, a washbasin and a seat.Yasmine Sfar and Mehdi Kebaier have been selected for the "Entrepreneurial Talent" Award, which rewards a design studio, an architecture firm, a company or a company in the design sector duly registered in its country, in possible collaboration with partners, artisans or companies.The Arab World Institute Design Award, created in 2023, aims to highlight emerging designers from the Arab world with a view to demonstrating know-how, productive genius and the creation of new materials. They offer a contemporary reading of the exceptional art of living in the Arab world through the prism of design.This year the call for applications is placed under the theme "ARABOFUTURS", as part of the eponymous contemporary art exhibition presented at the IMA until October 27, 2024.An exhibition dedicated to the selected candidates and the winners will be held in the spaces of the IMA from September 5 to 15, 2024.Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse