This two-day studio seminar invites participants into the world of paper pulp as a medium for making, memory, and storytelling.
At its center is a single object: the dinner set, a collection of vessels that carries personal significance beyond its form.
Working with paper pulp as their primary material, participants move through the full arc of designing and making a dinner vessel of their own. The process begins not with materials but with meaning: through guided prompts, each participant identifies the personal thread that will run through their set, and the memory, place, or person they want their objects to hold.
- On Day 1, Maha and Nagham introduce paper pulp, allowing participants to explore how it behaves before building it into a dough and molding it into vessels shaped in response to the narratives they have developed.
- On Day 2 participants unmold their dried pieces and move into printing, patterning, and adding texture, deepening the personal story running through each object. The session closes with Composing the Table where participants arrange their completed sets together on a shared surface, seeing their work whole for the first time alongside the pieces of others.
Participants leave, children and adults alike, with a personally authored dinner set, each piece shaped by a specific memory or story that gives it meaning beyond its form.
Accessibility & Participation
- Open to ages 11+
- Fee: 60 AED
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When
19 September - 26 September, time: 14:00-17:00.
Age
11+
Telephone number
Links
Address
Abu DhabiWarehouse421, Abu Dhabi, Mina Zayed, Street Samrayr, Warehouse421
How to get there?
From Abu Dhabi City: Follow the (E10) or Corniche Street towards Port Zayed (Secondary Entrance). Join 20th Street and at the 2nd roundabout turn left.
From Dubai (Travelling on E11): Take Saadiyat Island / Yas Island exit onto Sheikh Khalifa Highway (E12), Continue onto Sheikh Khalifa Highway following the signs for Port Zayed (Secondary Gate). Join 20th Street, and at the 2nd roundabout, turn left.
Key landmarks nearby Warehouse421 are Abu Dhabi Vegetable Market and Mina Center.