Liwan Design Studios and Labs to host Open Day tomorrow

Doha, Qatar: Liwan Design Studios and Labs is inviting the public to attend the upcoming Liwan Open Day to be held tomorrow, October 28 from 5pm to 9p...

Doha, Qatar: Liwan Design Studios and Labs is inviting the public to attend the upcoming Liwan Open Day to be held tomorrow, October 28 from 5pm to 9pm. This community-building event will explore some of the latest multidisciplinary design experiments and feature innovative research projects across Qatar, presented in Liwan.

On display will be the exhibition titled “Kitchen Comics,’” curated by artist Natasha Fernandes, the show features the work of 17 students from the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts Qatar (VCUarts Qatar).

It explores the multiple notions of a kitchen and its ability to store more than just food— it showcases how kitchens can be sites of memory making, creativity, communing, sharing, tradition, experimentation, and change.

The exhibition hopes to be a testament to the power of design to capture the intangible cultural heritage of our kitchens through visual storytelling and comic narrative, emphasising research, making, collaboration, and cultural literacy.

Liwan Open Day offers an opportunity for the public to visit showcases curated by the local creative community and interact with interdisciplinary designers, creative business owners, and artists. One of these artists is Liwan resident and multi-award-winning Moroccan-Dutch fashion designer Mohamed Benchellal who has his latest couture exhibition opening at the National Museum of Qatar on November 1.