Project Location: Segovia, Spain
Project type: Academic Alternative Design Practice at  IE University, Spain
Supervisor: David Diez
Project Status: Submitted Fall 2014
Team: Direct Collaborates: Lara Waked, Greta Magani, Yvo Corpataux  and Maud Collomb + Extended Collaborates: 15 x SDW Team Members
Project Website: http://www.daviddiez.com/SDW/?cat=21

The theme of linked design provides a wide window of interpretation of how design has been manufactured or developed and its impact on consequent design in an evolutionary manner. An exposition about these relationships in all their forms takes place in the Segovian context. The organization of the topics covered exhibit locations, marketing, guides and welcome packages are designed and developed.

Additionally each sub team organizes a topics for the exhibition; For our sub-team we suggested the theme of “Alternative Origins”
The theme discusses how now a days ‘We live in a globalized world where mass production has consumed the markets with manufacturing standardization. To evoke a memory of what was once was an alternative origin of common objects, we are creating spaces that simulate alternative pre-globalized contexts where these objects once would have been. This for the purpose of cultivating design links that were once well known but now forgotten.’

Our Sub team was also responsible for mapping out article archives and and compiling them into a book.

Project Location: Kabul, Afghanistan
Project type: Academic Design Studio at  IE University, Spain
Supervisor: Manuel Ocaña
Project Status: Submitted Fall 2012

Lara Waked – Afghanistan National Museum Geometric Cave Iteration Stop Motion Video
Music by: Yann Tiersen – La Redécouverte
Stop Motion Video: Copyright © 2015 LARA WAKED. All rights Reserved.

Project Location: Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt
Project type: Academic Design Project at Misr International University, Cairo, Egypt
Supervisor: Heba Safey El Deen
Project Status: Submitted Spring 2011

At the peak of the revolution, we are challenged to capture the revolution spirit to conceive a simple and meaningful memorial.The project is to be guided by defined aspects relating to its situation and ideologies.

The driving aspects for this project were to represent the intention, culture and lost lives yet ever-lasting spirit of the revolution. The intent is reflected in the location of the site selected; it is at the heart of the square in front of the Tahrir Government Complex, as if it is marking territory. The culture being peaceful and collaborative, peacefulness represented by the neutrality of the white color cladding, and the collaborativeness represented in its circular walls depicting unity between people. The lost lives, yet ever-lasting spirit, was reflected by wall silhouettes and shadows. On the inner surface of the walls, the names of the martyrs are engraved.