
Framtida visioner
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard
Hidden Treasures to be Discovered, Registered and Sponsored so as to finally become accessible for researchers, students and publishers.
Enter this garden in the Oasis of Bounou in Southern Morocco, right on the edge of the desert. Far away from your homeland perhaps – but closer to your own soul.
Enjoy in calm walks the surrounding landscape of tamarisk bushes and palm trees that seem to reach the sky. Stay here for a while to reflect on what is important in life, what it is that might make the world a little better.
This is a place where you may find inspiration, energy and space for your creativity, be it making sculptures or other art works, finding a corner for story-telling, meditation, or just dancing along and singing with the wind. An open space waiting to embrace your creativity.
Our extensive collection of traditional garments, embroidered shoes and other handicraft items from Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Syria and Palestine is also housed at the Marrakech Institute. It is a hidden treasure to be discovered and studied along with the numerous books and press-cuttings on the subject available in our library and archives. A visual documentation and register of the costumes is very much needed and would be a very meaningful task for textile students or retired costume experts. Scholarships consisting of free accommodation at the Marrakech institute is given to presumptive candidates during their work.
SWEDEN HOUSE – MAISON SUÉDOISE – will be created on the ruins of a damaged building wall to wall with with the present Academia Arabesca. It will include a Stage for intercultural storytellers, for chamber and solo concerts, for puppet theatre and other small performances. The high wall behind the stage will be set up to project intercultural films, photos and art works. In the patio garden area there will be a Swedish Coffee Shop. A small library with books by Swedish writers in foreign languages, as well as pamphlets and information about Sweden and Sapmi, will also be available for visitors. In the preserved halls of the first floor there will be a lounge for seminars, meetings and VIP dinners. In several spaces of the house Swedish artists will have the opportunity to exhibit paintings, photos and other art works. In the near future the house will also offer two rooms as residences for Swedish artists and writers.
A crowdfunding campaign and an appeal to sponsors for the upcoming restoration will be launched in 2022 – so watch out and follow our Facebook news if you want to be part of a very exciting and creative project including Swedish design and art ideas in fusion with these traditional Moroccan spaces!
is situated in the small village Ksar Oulad Driss in the middle of an oasis just a few kilometers from the edge of the great Sahara desert in southern Morocco.
More than 400 years old, the Kasbah Complex at our disposal consists of four adjacent parts. Water and electricity are already in place. There we plan to create cultural meeting places for local inhabitants, especially youngsters, children and women as well as for both Moroccan and foreign visitors.
We hope to be able to rehabilitate and restore these traditional buildings in accordance with UNESCOs recommendations and in collaboration with CERKAS, a state institute already engaged in safeguarding Morocco’s cultural heritage in the Kasbah valleys of southern Morocco.
The larger meeting place will be in the oldest part of Kasbah Sellman called
The Sun Wheel Center
with its unique old mystical wall paintings. After restoration it can be used for various cultural activities.
In another space on the upper floor of an adjacent building there will be a small open-air theater called
The Moon Theater
where performers will be able to be heard using only their natural voices without loud speakers or microphones.
On the ruins of a former goat and chicken compound
The Arabesca Creative Space
with a garden café, is slowly taking shape. Two small stages for performances and storytelling, as well as lanterns and some traditional handcrafted chairs and tables, are already in place to receive guests.
The Kasbah complex will also shortly be able to offer some
Residences for Artists and Writers