The Design Journal is conceived as a living, evolving digital museum, a biannual publication that celebrates the creativity innovation, and heritage-driven design culture emerging in AlUla.
More than just a journal, it will be a storytelling platform, a dynamic space where the people, projects, and places shaping AlUla’s creative future are documented and shared with the world.
More than just a journal, it will be a storytelling platform, a dynamic space where the people, projects, and places shaping AlUla’s creative future are documented and shared with the world.
The Creative Shift
Architectural Fabric
Pathways
The Keepsake
Glossary
HH’s Note
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A Note on Design and Legacy
With its natural beauty and artistic heritage, AlUla provides an inspiring environment that attracts creativity and brings together artists from diverse fields. Since antiquity, AlUla has been a cradle of civilizations and a stage for various forms of art, from inscriptions and architecture to handicrafts. It stands as a living testimony to humanity’s profound connection with artistic expression and its role in shaping cultural identity and strengthening social cohesion through the ages.
Art in AlUla has always been a mirror of values and human meaning, a language through which societies conveyed their visions and identities, and a field where people expressed their presence in time and place. This unique characteristic has made AlUla a meeting point for civilizations and a distinguished destination for cultural and artistic exchange.
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Art in AlUla has always been a mirror of values and human meaning, a language through which societies conveyed their visions and identities, and a field where people expressed their presence in time and place. This unique characteristic has made AlUla a meeting point for civilizations and a distinguished destination for cultural and artistic exchange.
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The Creative Shift
What if design was less about producing outcomes and more about cultivating attention? This guiding question opens a space for rethinking how creativity lives within landscapes, histories, and communities. Toward a Curatorial Ecology considers the interplay between place and practice, Colours of AlUla reflects on palettes shaped by earth and light, and Design is Pulsing explores rhythm, presence, and renewal. Together, they invite us to see design not as fixed objects but as evolving relationships.
Architectural Fabric
By Francis Kéré
Founder of Kéré Architecture, and 2022 Laureate
of the Pritzker Architecture Prize
The AlUla Oasis is a rich and elaborate green tapestry. Running on both sides of the wadi on the AlUla Valley floor, the Oasis is punctuated by date palm groves. Some areas are denser, with trees planted in clusters, while other fields have regular rows of well-spaced palms.
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Founder of Kéré Architecture, and 2022 Laureate
of the Pritzker Architecture Prize
The AlUla Oasis is a rich and elaborate green tapestry. Running on both sides of the wadi on the AlUla Valley floor, the Oasis is punctuated by date palm groves. Some areas are denser, with trees planted in clusters, while other fields have regular rows of well-spaced palms.
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Pathways
AlUla unfolds through many voices, each tracing its own path across palms, mountains, and stone. In these stories, craft and architecture become more than disciplines, they are ways of listening to place, of shaping memory, and of carrying forward what endures. Pathways gathers personal journeys and collaborative encounters, from the rooted artistry of Khoos beneath the oasis palms to the cross-cultural exchanges that reimagine AlUla’s urban and historic landscapes. Together, they reveal how creativity moves through generations, weaving nature, heritage, and human connection into living design.
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The Keepsake
Every encounter with AlUla becomes a keepsake, carried within. In AlUla Diary, Sabine Marcelis reflects on quiet beauty, vast landscapes, and connections that reshape how we see design. Alongside, an evolving glossary opens dialogue between Arabic and English, showing how creativity moves across cultures. Together, they reveal design as both intimate and universal, shaped by people, place, and time.
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The Glossary
Exploring the language of design across cultures
In today’s connected world, our languages are constantly blending. Many of the words we use in design come from different cultures and are often used without fully understanding their original meaning.
This evolving glossary is an attempt to create a space for dialogue
between languages, especially between English and Arabic,
acknowledging that not every design term has a direct equivalent. We invite you, our readers, creatives, and thinkers to suggest Arabic terms that resonate with the meanings presented here, or to offer new interpretations in either language.
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In today’s connected world, our languages are constantly blending. Many of the words we use in design come from different cultures and are often used without fully understanding their original meaning.
This evolving glossary is an attempt to create a space for dialogue
between languages, especially between English and Arabic,
acknowledging that not every design term has a direct equivalent. We invite you, our readers, creatives, and thinkers to suggest Arabic terms that resonate with the meanings presented here, or to offer new interpretations in either language.
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Call For Collaboration
Manshoor - AlUla Design Journal warmly invites designers, architects, and craft experts from around the world to contribute. To submit an article for the forthcoming edition, please email: [email protected]
Next Issue: January 2026
Theme – Makers Who Matter
Design is never only about what is new-it’s about what lasts. In this issue, we meet the makers, thinkers, and makers-with-heart shaping forms, systems, and rituals that will matter for decades. Expect intimate portraits, surprising collaborations, and practical ideas you can carry home. These are the talents for your archive-and the icons you’ll be glad you discovered early.
Next Issue: January 2026
Theme – Makers Who Matter
Design is never only about what is new-it’s about what lasts. In this issue, we meet the makers, thinkers, and makers-with-heart shaping forms, systems, and rituals that will matter for decades. Expect intimate portraits, surprising collaborations, and practical ideas you can carry home. These are the talents for your archive-and the icons you’ll be glad you discovered early.
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