Collaborative Design in Tunis | El Warcha
In this episode of Outline, Sabine Boghossian chats with Benjamin Perrot, one of the founding designers of El Warcha – a collaborative design studio based in Tunis. They discuss the collective's origins, the challenges it faces, and what its team is currently working on. They reflect on how public space manifests in Tunis, what it means to be a designer in the city today, and the collective's collaborative creative process.
El Warcha means workshop in Arabic. It is a collective and maker-space founded in 2016 in the medina of Tunis, Tunisia. It aims to promote hands-on education and civic actions through the making of temporary urban furniture, art installations and public events with local inhabitants. With members of its community moving around, the project established itself in Tottenham in north London in 2018, and in Lisbon since 2020. It has also operated regularly in Nefta in south Tunisia since 2019.
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Outline
This podcast series features a process-focused conversation that looks at a guest's individual projects rather than their full bodies of work. It sketches the journey of the project: the spark of curiosity that led to its birth, the process of implementing the idea, the obstacles that emerged throughout the implementation, and the aftermath of the project, including new questions and new ideas.
