“Ramallah Lab”

From 13 - 27 April 2014, PAPA settled down as a temporary office in Ramallah, Palestine. Hosting organization is RIWAQ Centre for Architectural Conservation. Together with the architects of  RIWAQ, PAPA did fieldwork in the city to discover the Tactics of Life. Participants: Khaldun Bshara, Rania Aldjejab,  Aya Tahhan, Yara Bamiyeh, Lana Judeh, Fida Touma,  Yousef Taha and Awatef Romeya, artist.  With the kind support of the Mondriaan Fund.

Ramallah -  Building facades in the city serve as walls to mourn martyrs, to publicize business, dry laundry, write political slogans, or just for teenagers to scribble their names. This is…
Fida Touma – Ramallah Lab

Ramallah -  an icon placed on a street trash can, promoting the idea of keeping the city clean. added by Al-Bireh municipality…
Yara Bamiyeh – Ramallah Lab

Like in many countries, there's a culture among some youngsters to customize their cars. This guy added his name on his car: Titoo Tameme.…
Lana Judeh – Ramallah Lab

A banner advertising a new shopping center being built in the new neighborhoods of the city. This is a very common way of advertising for the many new construction projects…
Fida Touma – Ramallah Lab

Olive tree related crafts has been around for long period of time. While the olive tree timber is used to produce memorabilia from the Holy Land, this stand on sidewalk…
Khaldun Bshara – Ramallah Lab

second attempt of Ramallah bubbles…
Aya Tahhan – Ramallah Lab

Holidays in Ramallah are remarked with street life, shopping, and dressed up girls and boys. Time to cheer. …
Khaldun Bshara – Ramallah Lab

The yellow mini busses are the main public transport in the West Bank. They transport people to cities and villages only in the West Bank. When you have to travel…
Rania Aldjejab – Ramallah Lab

If you find this sticker on a storefront in the city, then this store does not sell goods manufactured in illegal Israeli Settlements in the West Bank. …
Lana Judeh – Ramallah Lab

A poster in the streets of Ramallah encouraging gender equality in the Palestinian Curriculum hung under a no entry sign."it does not matter whether you are a boy or…
Aya Tahhan – Ramallah Lab

We drew 4 patterns after the first week of posting photo’s (80) as a result from the shared photo walk.Walking in the streets of Ramallah you are made…
Lino Hellings – Ramallah Lab

second attempt of Ramallah bubbles…
Aya Tahhan – Ramallah Lab

A part of Ramallah cityscape framed by traditional stonewall, electric poles & wires. The urban sprawl is rapidly expanding, leaving the city with no open spaces or green areas, …
Aya Tahhan – Ramallah Lab

As Palestinians suffer from stripping their freedom of movement; whether abroad or even between Palestinian cities, towns & villages, this model of an airplane would be the closest of that…
Aya Tahhan – Ramallah Lab

Says Omar Jallad…
Lana Judeh – Ramallah Lab

How to make a reservation for the parking space in front of your shop? This is one way to do that. Moreover it is a great opportunity to show your…
Lino Hellings – Ramallah Lab

To give a glimpse on the Tactics of Life we have encountered so far, it is good to know people attach great importance to the feeling that LIFE is NORMAL…
Lino Hellings – Ramallah Lab

Here is part of the RIWAQ team that participated in PAPA Lab Ramallah the past two weeks. We share an interest in how people live their lives in the public…
Lino Hellings – Ramallah Lab

in the refugee camp people plant grapes to make block houses looks better even they plant it everywhere(in the basement) and let it come outside the window!!.…
Yousef Taha – Ramallah Lab

A company advertising a car as a prize for costumers. The number of cars have more than tripled in the city in the past few years. New car dealerships have…
Fida Touma – Ramallah Lab

It is a new trend (I would say after year 2000) to see olive trees--some are more than 2000 years old and hence known as Roman olive trees--decorating roundabouts of…
Khaldun Bshara – Ramallah Lab

second attempt of Ramallah bubbles…
Aya Tahhan – Ramallah Lab

An old television antenna on the roof of a building, such antennas were popular back in the day. And yes, we have our own version of The Eiffel Tower in…
Aya Tahhan – Ramallah Lab

old plastic bag fly with the wind on the form a duck .... plane trying to climb to the top through the wind to be in another place, and to see…
Awatef Romeya – Ramallah Lab