Unearthing Inspiration | Maysaa Almumin x Simone Muscolino | 25 Years of VCUarts Qatar
This episode, titled "Unearthing Inspiration", explores 25 years of VCUarts Qatar through Tasmeem Doha from the angles of associate professors Simone Moscholino and Maysaa Almumin. We talk about what metrics of success look like for Tasmeem Doha and the challenges it's able to take up. Maysaa and Simone shed light on the fundamental role of the Art Foundation on the city, and share how Tasmeem Doha has impacted their own work and creative processes.
Simone Muscolino is an associate professor and the director of the Art Foundation program at VCUarts Qatar. He is a multidisciplinary designer engaged in a research practice concerned in audiovisual culture, and time-based media. Muscolino art-directed the video production of several design and architecture firms and worked for both the movie industry and advertisement agencies. He co-founded and partnered Interaction Design Lab, a Milan based company working in the crossover between technology and design.
Maysaa Almumin is an architect and independent filmmaker. She graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and has extensive experience in architectural practice in both London and Kuwait, where she was a partner in Small Architecture Ltd, London; and the Director of THEM Designers in Kuwait. She is a member the Architects Independent design collective. Before joining VCUarts Qatar she worked at the Department of Architecture at Kuwait University. She held a faculty position in the department of Interior Design at VCUarts Qatar, then joined the University’s Art Foundation program, where she teaches Space Research.
Tasmeem Doha Podcast
Each edition of the Tasmeem Doha biennial international conference is accompanied with a new season of this podcast series powered by afikra, showcasing the best people, works and efforts around the chosen theme of the event. For 2024, the theme is “Under Construction”, which is both a metaphor for creative research and a celebration and investigation of transformation.
