about — Dina Haddadin

artist statement? i’m interested in the shift in perceptual boundaries, the displaced, the transient. In a time of algorithmic certainty, I am drawn to the space of not knowing, to the malleable space and the imagined.

Dina Haddadin is an architect and a multidisciplinary visual artist. Her interests combine various techniques, from the traditional to experimental, creating multi-layered works that examine research-based issues around architectural impermanence or the obsession with eternity and power in our changing urban geographies.

She is the founder of the architectural firm Kayn.studio. She has a B.A. in Architecture, and in 2008 she continued her studies in fine arts at the “School of Visual Arts” – “SVA” in New York. She is an “Arab Fund for Arts and Culture” (AFAC) 2015 Grantee and was one of two curators for the internationally recognized “Amman Design Week” for it first year, and was appointed as the Chief Design Officer for the second edition in 2017.

Haddadin had multiple solo shows and exhibited in various international exhibitions and biennales, her work have been auctioned by “Christie’s” and acquired by local and international collectors and institutions around the world.

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Commissioned and Acquired by Qatar Museums for ARAB DESIGN NOW exhibition, curated by Rana Beruiti.
“Sabil- the Nomad Pavilion” is a contemporary renaissance of the traditional Islamic Sabil, a sustainable socially responsible structure, that serves both as a shelter and a water collecting tower, a pavilion which marries traditional craftsmanship, architecture, sacred geometries and sustainability. A three-petaled shard was exhibited in the inaugural edition of the Biennale.
27 October 2023 - 11 May 2024
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The exhibition along with the artist Delaire Shaker, is a selection of two artist works that reflects their relationship to the places both in their context and their imagination.
The exhibition ran from June 1st till July 1st 2024
commissined by Ithra center of Arts and Cultue for Net Zero, curated by Candia Pestana
This installation sheds the light on “sand” as a finite resource in our infinite linear consumerist systems we build; based on the take, make, and dispose. Sand is the third consumed resource on the planet after air and water, where the main driver of this crisis is breakneck urbanization. River sand mining is now a global pressing issue contributing to the slow-motion disappearance of Deltas and lands, carried and shipped usually from the undeveloped to the developed countries and hence contributing to the global warming crisis we are living.
Part of Diwan Al Mimar Talks, the talk sheds the light on the temporary and the permanent in Architecture and the built environment Through a series of projects and research in the past 15 years by Dina Haddadin.
BELONGING TO THE TRANSIENT
الانتماء الى ما هو مؤقت

Our cities are in a constant form of transience, a continuum of development and re-development, spatially-engineered realities, changing urban geographies of exclusion and spatial/social displacement. These in-between spaces, margins, peripheries, or gaps; built or un-built, are the result of the constant spatial reproduction of "change”.
This discussion aims to explore projects that demonstrate the realm of impermanence and the creative potential inherent in these transient terrains, highlighting the challenges of creating spaces that accommodate and celebrate transience, embracing temporality, ephemerality, and adaptability, through flexible innovative designs, modular construction, adaptive reuse, and reduced waste generation.
Also through artistic experimentation, these spaces become the platforms for artistic expressions, temporary installations, and interactive experiences, contributing to revitalizing marginalized areas redefining what a public space is.
By occupying the notion of transience, we can challenge the conventional idea of permanence in architecture and explore the transformative potential of these ever-changing urban landscapes.
Opening Dec. 5,2022 , curated by Rana Beiruti and featuring:
Afshan Daneshvar
Dina Haddadin
Ghizlane Badri
Hana Almali
Nojoud Alsudairi