VCUarts Qatar interior design alumna wins French design award

Doha: ‘How does this design make me feel, and why is it that I feel this way?’ – When an interior design student first asked herself that question during a project in her sophomore year at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar (VCUarts Qatar) in 2015, little did she know that that query would become a compass to keep her on the right course of every design-related journey she would undertake over the following years – all the way to creating an award-winning entry for a design competition in France.

In November 2020, Zeina Sleiman, a Class of 2018 Interior Design graduate from VCUarts Qatar, a Qatar Foundation (QF) partner university, won a prize in a competition by French international design magazine Intramuros.  The magazine – for the first time – had organized a collaborative competition with École Camondo, the interior architecture and design school in Paris where Zeina was a postgraduate student from 2018 to 2020, Sunbrella, a company specializing in performance fabric for indoor & outdoor requirements, Moore Design, a design business renowned for developing workspace solutions in multiple sectors, and Lafuma, a French-based specialist in outdoor equipment and clothing.