/ The Canopies /

a social, performative piece portraying values of //community, locality and sustainability // through the dying craft of crochet weaving.

The Craft Market occupied half of the upper floor of the abandoned Bus Terminal “ The Raghadan Bus Station” , its stone archways created an opportunity to build a rich promenade for the visitors while they move from one shop to the other.

Inspired by our visual local patterns borrowed from our local collective memory where the triangular shape has always been part of both our visual urban festivity and our weaving culture and designs..

The canopies where produced by a 27 talented craft women from The Gaza Camp in Jerash, with the help of Kis_chic initiative we were able to collect the 25000 plastic bags, that was converted into threads and crocheted into the 3000 triangles that were suspended to create the Canopies.

Process video / kees_chic 2016

3000 triangles are netted using a special crochet technique, a derelict craft that is dying and slowly disappearing, with our demanding consumer society that we live in. The colorful threads are created using collected waste plastic bags.

The 10 canopies are a reaction against dominant culture: against mass-production and against capitalism. A symbol of empowerment and self expression through Craft and creativity, shifting production back into the hands of ordinary people instead of the machine power.

The 10 canopies are a collective attempt to relocate personal meaning in an indifferent world, through fragments that weaves together the body of each canopy.

A social, performative piece reflecting values of community, locality and sustainability through the dying craft of crochet weaving.

Design Team: Dina Hdaddain, Khalid Ali, Norma Kopti