Papayrus and New media | Abla el-Bahrway (Ba7r)

Open Call Climate Action x Design 2022
Granted amount: € 7.000

Abla elBahrawy is an architect and researcher based in Amsterdam. Her practice oscillates between architecture, archaeology and art. Her project Papayrus and New media aims to raise awareness of the contemporary value of papyrus as a cultural product and local material, to question our understanding of authenticity and to form connections and create opportunities for the development of the project. Through this project Abla aims to explore and explain the importance of this papyrus as a medium, and craft and what it can contribute to contemporary design.