Working with Moroccan textiles and fabric imagery, this session explores identity as something layered, shifting, and continuously reassembled.
As part of Diaspora Wonderland, Zoubida invites participants into a guided, hands-on workshop extending her installation Guardians of Craft. Drawing from Zoubida’s practice – where leftover Jacquard fabrics from past collections become material archives – participants will create their own collages through processes of cutting, composing, and reconfiguring.
Rooted in a multigenerational approach to making, central to Zoubida’s work, the workshop brings together participants across ages and experiences. It opens a space where different perspectives can meet – through gesture, material, and conversation – allowing personal memory, collective histories, and imagined worlds to intersect.
Blending intuition with play, participants are encouraged to experiment freely, letting unexpected forms and narratives emerge through texture, colour, and composition.
Open to all, this is a welcoming environment for exploration and exchange, with no prior experience required.
Language: EN/DE
Sophia Kacimi is a French-Moroccan creative working at the intersection of craft, fashion, interior design and art. She is the founder of the fashion label and creative practice Zoubida, a vibrant universe rooted in play and material experimentation.
Based on collaborations with Moroccan artisans and initiatives for younger generations, Zoubida operates as a laboratory for contemporary craft – reactivating traditional handwork in decline through bold, unexpected applications.
At the core of her practice are Jacquard upholstery fabrics – central to Moroccan domestic life – transformed into art-to-wear and art-to-use pieces.
