Exhibitions & Workshops

from ENCODE 2022

by Ebtissam Farid

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77 EXHIBITIONS & WORKSHOPS

// THE CITY

The 6th international Biennale for the artist’s book. | Library of Alexandria

Cities are complex dynamic systems which identities evolve and mutate over time in response to the dynamic flow of surrounding and embedded forces. What if we consider the city as a vital evolving book? Who would be the writer, the reader, and what would be the content, the script and the message? Are books and cities temporary forms of communications? What is the lifespan of the book ideas or the city identity? The installation debates if architecture is a frozen ideology in time or is it active and responding simultaneously to its context? It explores the development of space that expresses this evolution/devolution process based on past knowledge and memory, as well as, an expectation. That continual, unpredictable change is inevitably forthcoming due to people different readings of the spirit of the city as parameters to revive the classical idea that a city expresses its own distinctive ethos and values where time is reappeared in the world as something real as a destabilizing but creative milieu

// Furnex | CCC | 2012

ENCODE studio was awarded a Golden Award at the D+I competition during Furnex Event 76

// Salone Satellite | Milan . 2013

Encode studio participated at Salone Satellite 2013 by “ORNAMATICS” project with a group of Egyptian designers at the “Egyptian Design Hub” booth. The participation has been organized by the EFEC (Egyptian Furniture Export Council) as a result of a “design + Industry” competition held in Egypt in 2012 between young designers where the first five winners represented Egypt at Milan Salone Satellite

//Ornamatics | Salonesatellite

Ornamatics selected as one of the best 500 product exhibited throught out the 20 years of Salone Satellite

// Design is a Verb |Library of Alexandria |2012

“Design is a Verb” displays the works of a number of designers from various fields such as architecture, industrial design, product design, fashion design and digital creations. The Project aims to introduce the Egyptian artistic community to Applied Arts, and bring the companies searching for new creative and innovative designs together with talented designers in order to enrich the Egyptian industry.

As for “First Time” Exhibition, it offers an opportunity to discover future artists, who would enrich the artistic movement, and provides those promising talents with the support they need to hone their skills and creativity.

// British council |Agouza branch |Cairo |2013

During the exhibition, Encode team presented a scope of their intellectual and creative designs that trace a specific understanding on digital design and that will span from art to architecture and from furniture to product design.

// Institut Francais | Alexandria | 2015

ENCODE STUDIO exhibited “Cardboard Secrets ”, as a part of the event “Tous ensemble pour le climat” (“All together for the Climate”) organized by the French Institute in Alexandria. During the opening, ENCODE STUDIO presented several previous projects that has been explored and tested via cardboard prototyping and production, by investigating various digital and physical computational tools for exploring the potential of digital design and fabrication techniques.