Recently, we had the pleasure of talking to Abeer Sheikaly, a Jordanian woman working across sectors of architecture, design, fine art, and cultural production. She has designed and developed a unique tent, created with high performing structural fabric systems, exploring the social implications of creating homes for displaced communities. The development of her tent, Weaving a Home has been an ongoing process. Through a series of projects which explored performative structural fabrics and sheltering solutions, she has seen first-hand the potential of utilizing local resources and engaging the local community. While she continued building prototypes, she started researching and engaging in the processing of animal fibers (goat hair, sheep wool, and camel hair) as well as gaining a deeper insight into women-led Bedouin tent-making processes, mapping resources, and skills across seven governorates throughout Jordan (from north to south).
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