Our educational program, the Makouk Institute, offers adults a space to learn, play and exchange experiences through our workshop programs (related to art, play and play based learning), games library and game nights.
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Baladna is an educational board game in Arabic that invites players to explore the idea of culture through traveling around Egypt on the board. In each area players are introduced to various concepts and are asked different questions about geography, language, people, food, animals, environment, music, traditions, crafts, monuments, resources as well as challenges of the area. Questions are asked in an indirect form hence not assuming any previous knowledge but rather using different techniques activating critical thinking, opinion forming or artistic skills such as drawing or acting. It’s a journey of discovering new information, reflecting upon it and using it in a new context.
How to co-exist with oneself and others?
Collaboration, communication, conflict transcendence and appreciating diversity are the core of this experience. Exposing participants to environments, perspectives and attitudes highly present in a polarized society as well as offering them empowering solutions and techniques to be able to cope and be the change we want to see in the world.
How to create living systems inspired from the Earth’s living systems?
A life changing view on our planet and nature and how we connect with it. We explore our surrounding as well as environmental issues using play as well as visual aids. Offering children to be the solution by offering hands-on up-cycling and recycling techniques.
How to create and co-create through artistic expression?
As we walk we dance, we are storytellers almost on daily basis. Makouk creates spaces to capture the creative expression individually and collectively and use artistic mediums to explore our other themes.
How to understand and utilize the scientific process?
Thinking about thinking: We play mind shuffling activities that encourage creativity and lateral thinking. Our rational minds continuously try to de-crypt the world around us using words, formulas and numbers. We explore the different sciences and its applications in our lives through engaging experiments and experiences.
Ali designs games and facilitates workshops, with an interest in exploring and understanding the space between play and learning. His work spans designing educational experiences, creating games, and facilitating activities. Ali is one of the co-founders of Makouk and has been involved in designing more than eight games produced by Makouk. He is also one of the educational experts there. His interests revolve around the question, "How can people sit together and create knowledge or anything else collaboratively?
Mariam Ramadan, the facilitator of the game art workshop at Ma3had Makouk, is a graphic designer and art director specializing in game art. With eight years of experience as a game artist, Mariam has a background in Graphic Design from The German University in Cairo. She has led design teams and managed projects such as the Dino Socks card game, Beladna board game, and Popular Stories (a children's book series).
Hossam Shokrallah is an art trainer, game designer, and programming instructor. His interests revolve around game design and programming, as well as woodworking, blacksmithing, sewing, 3D work, and leatherworking. He has won three awards in game design and development at the Global Game Jam competition in Egypt and has consulted on numerous game designs. He has also designed many game-based educational experiences in camps and workshops during his 11 years of work with the Arab Digital Expression Foundation. Currently, he works in the fields of design and education, where technology intersects with craftsmanship. He believes that free culture and open-source software are important for art, education, and expression.
Youssef loves shaping materials and manufacturing in general; you could say he's obsessed with this magical world. He studied scenography and discovered street arts in 2011, and since then, he has been drawn to the idea of arts in public spaces. He has been on a constant quest to acquire formative skills that he can use as expressive tools in these spaces. In recent years, he has been responsible for game production at Makouk.
We believe that magic lies in our ability to play in engagements and experiences. We believe in everyone’s journey to self learn, unlearn and relearn. Every journey matters! We also believe in the power of questions and dialogue in every exploration.
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