CRAFT DRaft
academic services
on MOROCCAN GEOMETRIC ARTS



Course, Lectures and Instructions



higher education





CRAFT DRAFT offers higher education services for universities teaching Islamic geometric arts and Moroccan architecture. This year of 2022, CRAFT DRAFT founder and lead instructor Hamza El Fasiki is a teaching fellow of Moroccan Geometry at the Euro Med University of Fes while lecturing and teaching the traditional methods of constructing ornaments in Moroccan arts.



1 to 1 lessions





CRAFT DRAFT founder and lead instructor offers private one to one classes for university professors of Islamic arts and for students of Moroccan arts. In a one to one CRAFT DRAFT setting, Hamza El Fasiki focuses on the individual learner's needs.



ACADEMIC RESEARCH & WRITING





CRAFT DRAFT founder and lead instructor offers a wide range of research assistance such as offering informant services and writing papers for specific institutions. This year of 2022, Hamza El Fasiki is contributing, to a volume on space design, with a book chapter as part of a course book at Temple University in Philadelphia, USA . This work is a critical paper on the issues within the concept of Islamic Art. It tackles for the first time the following question: What Makes Moroccan Geometric Patterns Moroccan ?



corporate team building & professional development





Since 2020, CRAFT DRAFT has been offering professional team building activities in an academic manner. CRAFT DRAFT's main client is GOOGLE. UX teams get a chance to understand the dynamic traditions within the art of Moroccan geometry in a way that shapes the dynamic forces within the GOOGLE teams. CRAFT DRAFT aims at inspiring engineers and coders by offering them a gate to the traditional norms of Moroccan artisanal designs.



COURSE DEVELOPEMENT





CRAFT DRAFT can help you develop a course structure for your event. CRAFT DRAFT can also offer you a TOT - Training of Trainers sessions to be in total control of the course content. The year of 2021, CRAFT DRAFT worked with the Council of Newfoundland & Labrador of Canada to develop and record a series of sessions on Moroccan geometry for the Craft@TheEdge event.



LEADERSHIP & CONSULTING





In need of an academic guide to tell your group of students or researcher an accurate story of the Moroccan patterns? CRAFT DRAFT worked with organisations like AMIDEAST and Fulbright while. Next year of 2023, CRAFT DRAFT will lead a 16 days tour (for Arcadia Expeditions) around Morocco while telling an intellectual story of the making of Moroccan ornaments.





About the academic instructor

Hamza El Fasiki, MA



Hamza El Fasiki is a Scopus listed author. He wrote two books and other academic works. His recent book chapter publication is “Social Entrepreneurship in Morocco: A View on the Cultural Factor” (Springer, 2015).


He received his MA in Moroccan Cultural Studies with a research focus on Moroccan crafts and entrepreneurship from Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University in Fes, Morocco.


A Fes native, he apprenticed under his father learning Moroccan geometric patterns, brass Engraving and bookbinding.


Hamza traveled, learning and teaching Moroccan culture, around 16 countries: Morocco, United States, Algeria, Turkey, Japan, Greece, United Arab Emirates, Germany, England, Malaysia, Philippines, Egypt, Cyprus, Tunisia, Australia and Wales.


Currently he is writing a book chapter on Moroccan geometric arts as part of a course book for Temple University in Philadelphia.


He is the founder of CRAFT DRAFT where he instructs and lectures, since 2013, on three Moroccan crafts: Moroccan Geometric Patterns, Moroccan Brass Engraving and Moroccan Leather Bookbinding.


He is also a teaching fellow of Moroccan geometric arts for students of design and architecture at the Université Euro-Méditerranéenne de Fès-UEM.


He is based between Fes/Morocco and Portsmouth/England.


CONTACT ME via

hamza.el_fasiki@CraftDraft.org



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