With Raafat Majzoub

Ages 18+

In English and Arabic

Affirmative Drifting ✦ كل شي صح  explores fiction as a method for navigating complexity and prototyping futures. Participants will experiment with intuition, narrative and worldmaking tools drawn from Arab knowledge systems, speculative practice and everyday experience. Embracing uncertainty as a generative space, the course offers a framework for rethinking authorship, decision-making and creative direction across disciplines.

The course borrows from the dérive [drift] of the Situationists, affirmative practices of life-centred therapy and energetic logics of du‘a, a speculative, Indigenous form of invocation found across Arab and Muslim traditions. Participants will be guided through a framework of ‘drifting’, which treats every detour as data, every tension as choreography and every obstacle as part of the map. This is not about controlling reality—but publishing it—curating its unfolding.

Open to artists, writers, designers, thinkers and spiritual practitioners at any stage in their journey, the course includes readings, film clips, walking rituals and communal du‘a as speculative publishing. No prior academic experience is needed — just a willingness to drift and a commitment to show up.

The course is free, and all materials are provided by Sharjah Art Foundation. All reading and project work will be done during the work sessions. 
 

About Raafat Majzoub

Architect, artist and writer Raafat Majzoub is Director of The Khan: The Arab Association for Prototyping Cultural Practices and MIT’s Institute for Worldmaking. He co-founded both the Dongola Architecture Series and The Outpost magazine, serving as Editor-in-Chief and Creative Director, respectively. He currently teaches in the Art, Culture and Technology program at MIT. Previously, Majzoub was a lecturer at the Architecture and Design Department, American University of Beirut, and served as a mentor at Misk Art Institute, Riyadh, and Ashkal Alwan, Beirut.

Majzoub’s work explores worldmaking through fiction, performance and experiments in mutual learning. He co-edited Beyond Ruins: Reimagining Modernism (ArchiTangle, 2024), Design to Live: Everyday Inventions from a Refugee Camp (MIT Press, 2021) and What are Borders? (AUB, 2021). He has also contributed to several anthologies, most notably, Field Notes on Scarcity (Park Books, 2024) and How to maneuver (Kayfa-ta, 2020). His artwork has been shown internationally, most recently in Sharjah Biennial 16 (2025) and Home Works Forum 9, Beirut (2023–2024).

Sharjah Art Foundation is committed to making its programmes inclusive and accessible. Disability access symbols indicating accessibility for course sessions can be found on the registration form. Kindly contact us in advance to arrange for any support needed.

For more information, email learning@sharjahart.org or call 06 568 5050.