Meaning

tareeq is Arabic for street, or in a fancy chain-of-words, right-of-way.

In the urban sense of the Arab-Muslim/Middle Eastern city, the street has been a highly conducive element, interchangeably having the capacity to house contrasts. It acts as both interim and permanent space. As a vestibule of urban motion it serves as that portion of your journey where in every second a new visual frame of the city is generated in your head. And it is that permanent space where jurors scratched their minds figuring what forms of encroachment affect the permeability of it, what was a visual violation of privacy, and contemplated boundaries. An element of contrasts, tareeq is literally and figuratively a way.

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City Design تصميم المدن

Observing and influencing the way our cities are shaped and perform is an ongoing process.

The processes may be one or a multitude. This section demonstrates those we tap and discover at tareeq.

Our main focus is experiments we carry out or investigate in cities. Currently, we are covering Gaza, New York and Amman. Although focus is on these locales, we believe the perpetual affect & representation can be global.  We will further feature in this section  international cities.

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Media الإعلام

Media platforms house a multitude of our products & services developed using various platforms.

Conducted as both manifestation and complimentary on urban life, different forms of media are utilized to achieve these means.  From photo montages to video, artistic themes come in many cocktails. Pop art trails are grafted in Street Art Montage, a collection of photo montages of striking icons & colors in locales across four cities in the globe. While Read is a video art piece that taps into literature & architecture.

Explore the visual candy by clicking on the tabs in the bar above. For art work that you would like to purchase, check out the Contact section for details on how to drop us a line.

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