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Creative Impact Lab Amman

Photo by Daniel Qura on Unsplash.

Creative Impact Lab Amman is a six-week hybrid creative exchange that utilizes community-driven digital and new media art projects to address environmental sustainability.

Lead Artist

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Isabel Beavers

Isabel Beavers is a transdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, California. Their work explores ecologies, examines environmental histories and postulates about climate futures through multimedia installation and new media. Beavers’ work has been presented at Museum of Design Atlanta (2021), San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (2021), New York Hall of Science (2020), CultureHub LA (2020), MIT Museum (2019), Humbolt-Universität zu Berlin Thaer-Institut (2018), Mountain Time Arts (2017). They have held workshops at the Hammer Museum (2020) and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (2019). Beavers holds an MFA from Tufts University and is the 2021 AICAD/NOAA Fisheries Art + Science Fellow.

Exchange Experience

Creative Impact Lab Amman is much more than a collection of art pieces. The research, experiential learnings, group discussions, and workshop processes are at the heart of the exchange. While the works created by participants are an integration of all of our learning, so much of the richness comes from the social processes embedded in the lab experience. During our time together we visited Re-Rooting, an exhibit at Darat al Funun; completed a workshop on Jordan’s water system facilitated by Aline Bussman, CEWAS Middle East; visited Wadi Mujib, and of course, gathered for participant presentations during the final event. All of these moments shared together are intrinsic to the creation of the artworks, and contribute to a collective memory.

Virtual Exhibition of Participant Projects

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Creative Impact Lab Amman is much more than a collection of art pieces. The research, experiential learnings, group discussions, and workshop processes are at the heart of the exchange. While the works created by participants are an integration of all of our learning, so much of the richness comes from the social processes embedded in the lab experience. During our time together we visited Re-Rooting, an exhibit at Darat al Funun; completed a workshop on Jordan’s water system facilitated by Aline Bussman, CEWAS Middle East; visited Wadi Mujib, and of course, gathered for participant presentations during the final event. All of these moments shared together are intrinsic to the creation of the artworks, and contribute to a collective memory.

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Host Partner

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IDare for Sustainable Development

IDare for Sustainable Development is a not-for-profit organization established in October 2013. As a social venture, the core of IDare's actions are based on social marketing (community change behavior) from the early stages of idea development to the successful achievement of the desired impact.

IDare believes in youth as the driving force towards development in its comprehensive sustainable concept where social, economic, and political dimensions are equally respected. IDare exists to be the platform for the voice and efforts of young active citizens in transforming their societies to achieve remarkable success in all their endeavors.

Sponsor

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U.S. Embassy Amman

The mission of the United States Embassy is to advance the interests of the United States, and to serve and protect U.S. citizens in Jordan.

Creative Impact Lab Amman (2022) is a ZERO1 international exchange supported by U.S. Embassy Amman and hosted by IDare for Sustainable Development.

Artist Talk with Isabel

Isabel will kick off Creative Impact Lab Amman with an artist talk to introduce participants and the public to her creative practice and approach to the Lab. We will post a video recording of the talk here after the event on May 14, 2022. In the meantime, you're invited to view the video above containing artist testimonies from our virtual exchanges during the first year of the pandemic.

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