Dongola Limited Editions

12/04/2024

APPEL À CANDIDATURES - L’association Dongola Projets Dongola Limited Editions et la Cité internationale des arts ont coconstruit un programme de résidence centré sur la création d’un livre d’artiste, ouvert à un duo artiste visuel-écrivain issus d’un des pays de la région MENA, vivant et travaillant en Europe.

Un artiste plasticien et un écrivain seront sélectionnés sur présentation d’un projet commun, à la suite de la réunion d’un jury de professionnels du monde de l’art et de la culture et de représentants de la Cité internationale des arts et de Dongola Projets.

Candidatures jusqu'au 26 mai 2024 inclus
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06/02/2024

17/04/2023

We're very excited to be part of this beautiful project!

Opening April 18 -23 at Salone del mobile 2023 at .design district..
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Under Design Lebanon “Under Design Lebanon” is a group exhibition curated by for Isola Design District at the 2023 edition of Salone del Mobile featuring Lebanon based designers, designer collectives and practices, traditional and contemporary crafts and design supporting associations. The presentation’s main objective is to offer a realistic mapping and projection on the currently still functioning entities under the exceptional conjunction of social, political and economic crises that Lebanon is undergoing.

This multi-medium group exhibition will feature different categories of exhibition materials divided between a specially produced docu-film, infographic & research content, digital & video materials, an augmented reality exhibition and material explorations. The graphical mapping is designed by Lebanese Graphic Designer .on.paper and will be integrated in a 3D printed recycled-plastic installation designed and produced by .industrial.crafts . The exhibition is supported by .

The mapping will be detailing different categories of the ecosystem varying from Traditional Crafts such as , and , Contemporary Crafts and Manufacturing such as , and , Design Education & Research such as Rana Haddad’s course at the American University of Beirut (AUB) Architecture and Design Department (), Series and the , Designer Consultancies and Management Agencies such as Babylon and .4200 as well as sector supporting non-profit organizations and initiatives such as , Nahnoo, and Diwan of Culture Design & Innovation (.dcdi ), and finally product showcases by independent designers and designer collectives; , , Shirine Sbaiti, , and .

16/03/2023

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"This week an impressive box came into our collection: "Zarathustra" by , who comes from . 20 signed silkscreen prints (signed) together with a multilingual booklet offer a visual interpretation of Nietzsche's seminal text. The box is an invitation to question everything (including religions) and yourself, your attitude towards the world. "

We are Happy to share that "Zarathustra", our book with Reza Abedini was acquired by Munich State Library, Germany.

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Attached: 4 images This week an impressive box came into our collection: "Zarathustra" by , who comes from . 20 signed silkscreen prints (signed) together with a multilingual booklet offer a visual interpretation of Nietzsche's seminal text. The box is an invitation to...

03/02/2023

"Ammar designs frameworks where “structure can become the architect.” In constructing the bridge at The Royal Academy for Nature Conservation, his aim was to design the “thinnest and lightest arch possible” using local material and techniques. The challenge is set, not only structurally, but also in engaging the poetics of the materials and histories integral to the location"

Excerpt from DAS 01 - Ammar Khammash - Notes on Formation.

31/01/2023

Notes on Formation: Ammar Khammash is the first book in our Architecture Series, a platform to publish multi-layered readings of conversations with Arab architects working across the region’s contemporary landscapes.

DAS 01 features Ammar Khammash whose work in building, painting, sculpture and music, together with his social, geological and botanical research break and intersect with every possible disciplinary mold in favor of an ongoing momentum of production and dissemination of knowledge. His practice is an act of mutual formation, an ongoing collaboration between himself and nature, which is, in his regard, the only real architect.

Stay tuned for information about the book launch coming soon!

28/01/2023

This is an excerpt of many inspiring conversations we had with Ammar to build the narrative of DAS01: Notes on Formation.

This book is the product of several visits to the Khammash Architects offices in Amman, and numerous calls with Ammar after border closings due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rather than package the practice, this book aims to reveal associations, untangle connections, and trace loose threads. In exploring these various processes of formation – material, intellectual, and otherwise – this book works to offer a reading of architecture that draws on experimentation, context sensitivity and cultural introspection as main foundations.

25/01/2023

We invited Ammar Khammash ( )to be our guest for the first edition of DAS.

Ammar exemplifies our quest. His work in building, painting, sculpture and music, together with his social, geological and botanical research intersects with and breaks every possible disciplinary mold in favor of an ongoing momentum of production and dissemination of knowledge. His practice is an act of mutual formation, an ongoing collaboration between himself and nature, which is, in his regard, the only real architect.

DAS 01 | Ammar Khammash - Notes on Formation



Animation: Charbel Kaddoum and Georgio Mrad

25/01/2023

Meet the architect for DAS 01: Ammar Khammash ( ) is a renowned architect, anthropologist, and artist.

His transdisciplinary expertise has led Ammar towards a distinct vision of territorially rooted innovation. His work includes everything from commercial projects, sustainable tourism, and restoration to cultural centers and landscape design.

Khammash Architects’ Royal Academy for Nature Conservation was short-listed for the 2017 Aga Khan Award in Architecture. He was also awarded the 2019 Global Award for Sustainable Architecture.

20/01/2023

Meet the team of Dongola Architecture Series

Sarah Chalabi - Founder is a writer with a keen interest in publishing in the world of arts, and publishing. She founded Dongola along with Abed Al Kadiri in 2017.

Raafat Majzoub - Editor-in-Chief is an architect, artist, writer, director of The Khan: The Arab Association for Prototyping Cultural Practices.

Reza Abedini - Art Director is an artist, graphic designer, teacher and researcher. His research seeks to outgrow the inadequacies for perso-arabic script of the graphic design rules derived from Latin alphabet.

Zeina Chamseddine - Project Manager is an architect exploring the intersection of architecture, art and publishing and its sustainability.

18/01/2023

The Dongola Architecture Series (DAS) is a biannual book series that offers a unique insight into Arab culture through the lens of its most iconic contemporary architects.
It challenges the normative pillars of the architecture canon, and highlights the practices of architects and architectural thinkers working in the MENASA region today.

16/01/2023

For the past two years, we have been developing a new architecture book series we will be releasing very soon!

Dongola’s inquiry of architecture is rooted in the discipline’s lack of discipline, in the way it generatively leaks into other fields as a true intersection of thought and practice.

Through architecture, we aim to uncover and publish intimate perspectives of life in the Arab region by drawing on noteworthy approaches of leading Arab architects to context-specific situations, processes, legacies, and materialities.

Stay tuned!

15/11/2022

🟡 Ambit and Dongola Challenge the Spectacle of War 🟡

It was February 2022 when Ambit Magazine, having missed one opportunity to collaborate with Dongola Limited Editions, reached out again in hopes of them both getting a second chance. Ambit invited Dongola to co-edit their 248th issue and Dongola happily accepted the invitation. A publication house primarily concerned with art books, this would be their first time working on a magazine. So, as Russia invaded Ukraine, the two publishers – one British, one Lebanese – came together to create Ambit 248: The War Issue.
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Kirsty Allison, editor of Ambit, Sarah Chalabi, founder of Dongola, and Zeina Chamseddine, junior editor and project manager at Dongola spent February establishing the magazine’s structure, in March they called for submissions, by June the content was set, design in July, with a release in September, not knowing whether the war in Ukraine would still be raging, whether it would be over, or whether yet another war would have begun. In regards to the magazine, no foreseeable events could diminish its relevance. The issue of war demands more attention every day.

➡️For more info : https://mymagenda.com/articles/ambit-and-dongola-challenge-the-spectacle-of-war