Omar El Amine

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The Shahada of the Olive Tree (2024

architecture, research, writing

After-Post, Amsterdam (2026)

curation, book-making, writing

Malaria Prevention Centre, Lagos (2025)

architecture, research, commission

A Mosaic of Embodied Knowledge, Fes (2023)

architecture, research, animation, drawing

A Mosque for Camden (2025)

architecture, research, drawing

The Ummatic City (2025)

art, research, drawing

A Mediterranean Melody (2023)

book-making, art


Madih (2024 )

book-making, art

Future Archeologies (2023)

drawing
 

The Docklands  (2025)

writing



A Mosaic of Embodied Knowledge

Transmitting Zellij Tile-Making in the Workshop and the City 



The clay Zellij mosaic tile, the product of a Moroccan craft tradition, was the departure point of the project. The project investigates the complex forms of sociality around the production of the tile. Through the investigation, the question emerged of how artisanal craft traditions, which have been transmitted through embodied knowledge and oral instruction, can be preserved into the 21st century, following a disruption of ancient apprenticeship models of learning.  The proposal responds to the question by intervening in four sites throughout the city, which each facilitate transmission of embodied knowledge in different ways. This project was a response to a MA Year 1 brief in the ADS2 studio of the Royal College of Art MA Architecture programme.