5 projects reached the “short list” and “REDS” won the award

Dubai Culture honors the winners of the "Al Quoz Creative" competition

  • Honoring the founders of the “REDS” smart application with a competition prize of $3,000.

    From the source

picture

The Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) announced that the smart application project (Reedz) won the “Al Quoz Creative Entrepreneurs Competition”, which was specially designed to support and assist startups, and provide them with the main tools they need to enable them to develop their innovative ideas.

In the context, Dr. Saeed Mubarak bin Kharbash, Executive Director of the Arts and Literature Sector in Dubai Culture, honored Shaheer Dawoodi and Haitham Kishaw, the founders of the smart “REEDS” application, with a competition prize of $ 3,000, after their success in presenting the application idea aimed at helping its users. To improve their skills and knowledge thanks to the audio summaries it provides in Arabic for the best-selling books in the world.

A multi-experienced jury included Kholoud Khoury, Director of Projects and Events Management at Dubai Culture, Neil Patkar, founder of The Jam Jar showroom, Jed Adams, CEO of SMSME, and Aya Sader, President Executive and founder of Plot Consulting, the process of discussing and evaluating the group of projects that applied to the competition, where five projects belonging to the cultural and creative industries were able to reach the finals.

In addition to the award-winning “REDS” application project, the short list of the competition included the “Localkilns” project, through which architect Tasneem Al-Tinawy presents her visions of kilns for the ceramics industry, and the (Leukeather) project, which is an idea presented by the architect and researcher Nahir Zain. It aims to provide new and innovative alternatives from plants in the fashion industry, and the “Datecrete Concrete” project, in which Sarah Abu Farha and her colleague Khaled Shalha shed light on sustainable construction processes through the use of “date seed” concrete as an alternative to traditional concrete, in addition to the “Datecrete” project. Hakimi Studio »by artist Nariman Hakimi, through which she works on producing ceramics with contemporary designs.

basic pillar

For her part, Kholoud Khoury, Director of Projects and Events Department at Dubai Culture, stressed the importance of the role played by Dubai Culture in encouraging entrepreneurs to present their ideas and enabling them to invest and turn them into reality.

She said: “The cultural and creative industries, with their diversity and inclusiveness, are an essential pillar in shaping and strengthening the strength of Dubai's creative economy.

And Dubai Culture's interest in it reflects its keenness to find an integrated system capable of supporting the creative community and enabling it to contribute to the emirate's gross domestic product.

She noted that the "Al Quoz Creative Competition for Entrepreneurs" is one of the authority's pioneering initiatives that seeks to embody Dubai's cultural vision aimed at establishing the emirate's position as a global center for culture, an incubator for creativity, and a meeting place for talents, noting that the group of project ideas participating in the competition that was presented before a committee Arbitration highlights Dubai's status and the richness of its cultural environment.

Khoury said: “The group of projects has demonstrated the entrepreneurial spirit of its owners and broad aspects of knowledge capable of supporting the culture sector and the creative economy, which enhances Dubai’s global position as a land of opportunities, and falls within the framework of (Dubai Culture) commitments aimed at empowering entrepreneurs and supporting And sponsoring talents,” pointing at the same time to the importance of training and educational workshops implemented by the authority to motivate talents and entrepreneurs.

The “Al Quoz Incubator” initiative, which was launched by the Authority as part of the “Al Quoz Creative District” activities program, witnessed the organization of an evening of “Creative Thinking”, which focused in its discussions on ways to develop innovative ideas, in addition to holding a series of workshops aimed at motivating emerging entrepreneurs and providing them with With the basics of planning to achieve their goals, and ensuring the development of their projects and ideas, the group of workshops, which were supervised by a group of experts and specialists, shed light on digital marketing tools, commercial licenses, value proposition, business models, marketing strategies, launching projects, and the reasonableness of opportunities.

It is noteworthy that the Al Quoz Creative District project aims to establish an integrated creative complex that meets the requirements of creators from all over the world, and works to provide a suitable environment for creators in all fields that enables them to succeed and develop, and to contribute positively to the creative and cultural fabric of the Emirate of Dubai. Al Quoz Creative City has facilities that will embrace 20,000 creatives by 2026.

• 20,000 creators will be embraced by Al Quoz Creative District by 2026.

Kholoud Khoury:

• "The competition reflects (Dubai Culture)'s keenness to find a support system for the creative community."


Follow our latest local and sports news and the latest political and economic developments via Google news