Abeer Seikaly
Abeer Seikaly is a Palestinian architect who designed a multi-use, disaster shelter for refugees. She lives in Amman Jordan. Seikaly is an architect and designer who has worked for Villa Moda in Kuwait in 2005.
Abeer Seikaly
- Born
- 1979
- Nationality
- Jordan
- Occupation
- designer · architect
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Abeer Seikaly is a Palestinian architect who designed a multi-use, disaster shelter for refugees. She lives in Amman Jordan. Seikaly is an architect and designer who has worked for Villa Moda in Kuwait in 2005.
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Her style of work
Her style of work
She directed the first contemporary art fair in Jordan in 2010.
Seikaly's ‘Weaving a Home’ uses fabric composed of high-strength plastic tubing molded into sine-waves that expand and enclose based on weather conditions; it is easily broken down to allow for mobility and transport. The tent also collects rainwater to be used for basic sanitation like showering, and absorb solar energy that is stored as electric energy in batteries.
Career
Career
She is a member of RISE- Jordan's Women's Everest Expedition, that climbed Mount Everest in 2018. Her works have been featured internationally, including at the MoMA in New York, the MAK in Vienna, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
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Life and career
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1979
Abeer Seikaly born.
Awards and honours
In 2013 she was awarded the Lexus Design Award.
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- 1.Inspiring Woman Invents Refugee Tents That Collect Rainwater and Store Solar Energy. Egyptian Streets. 2018-12-27.
- 2.Small Footprints, Big Impacts. Inventors Digest. 2018-05-21.
- 3.Weaving a Home. Alt.Accom. 2019-04-23.
- 4.FernandoRestoyRodriguez. Women and Girls in Science Podcast Series: Architect Abeer Seikaly. academicimpact.un.org. 2019-02-08.
- 5.abeer seikaly weaves shelters for disaster relief using patterned fabric. designboom architecture & design magazine. 2014-03-06.
- 6.Inspired by Syrian refugee crisis, weaved homes collect rain water and store solar energy. Wisconsin Muslim Journal. 2019-01-29.
- 7.Abeer Seikaly's Structural Fabric Shelters Weave Refugees' Lives Back Together. ArchDaily. 2015-12-19.
- 8.Abeer Seikaly. World Economic Forum.
- 9.About Abeer Seikaly. abeerseikaly.com.
- 10.Gupta, Rudrani. Abeer Seikaly: Visionary Architect Weaves Winning Tents For Refugees. SheThePeople TV. 2019-11-20.
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