Vita - Maha Alusi

Maha Alusi I Vita
“We cannot stop time, but we can enjoy every single passing moment?”
Maha Alusi I Vita
1966
1987-92
1993-2014
Baghdad
London
Berlin
Born
Architectural Association - School of Architecture
Alusi Architecture & Art
Innovation & Patents
2005
2006
2012
2016
World wide patents for an innovative method of producing candles.
Patent application for innovative three dimensional candles.
Patent application for a powder wax press machine - multi wick candles.
Patent application for candle innovation in various production methods.
Talks & Teaching
2016
2016
2016
2016
2015
2016
2015
2015
2014
2014
2014
2013
2013
2013
2013
2011
2011
2010
2003
2003
Speaker Makesence Camp Berlin. sensecube.cc
Speaker Mentor Shipfestival Finnland. shipfestival.org
Mentor / enpact: Berlin - Cairo -Tunis. enpact.org
Speaker / Wrage / Hamburg. (Zeit schenken)
Speaker /Ted like event - EO Hamburg. (composing time)
Speaker, Workshop / Frankfurter Ring / Frankfurt (moments of happiness)
Time Akademie / seminars,workshops (Writing Visions, happiness)
Light workshop / Alusi atelier / Braunschweig architecture students.
Speaker / ESMT European School Berlin. (vision to reality,The Alusi Vision)
Invited critic Braunschweig University, Architecture Dip. (The Creative Client)
Brand Ambassador / Alusi Europa Ltd.
Speaker / ACForum “The arabic culture” / TU Berlin. (women / culture)
Judge and coach/ Odyssey of the mind/ International creative competition
Ext.Supervisor/MA Student / IKDC - School of Industrial Design Sweden.
Workshop / University of Applied Science Potsdam. (Visionary thinking)
Design Thinking Workshop-Alusi marketing strategies. (creative Marketing)
Workshop at University of Applied Science Potsdam. (Creativity)
Speaker / TEDx Berlin (Moments of Happiness)
Bahrain Cultural Centre / cultural program with Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Speaker / Vitra design seminar (living under the half moon, the arab city)
Competitions & Realized Projects
2015
2015
2009
2008
2004
2000
2000
1998
1998
1997
1996
1995
Happy Moments e.V. NGO
Book publication with Randomhouse publishers (Moment of Happiness)
Alusi candles Factory in Vancouver - Canada /Innovative machine production for patented
multiflame Alusi candles
Establishing Alusi Europa Ltd / Dublin - Irland / international marketing and Sales Alusi
candles in 48 countries in more than 6000 rooftops (shops)
Founding Alusi Ephemeral Art candle business.
Floston Internet company, the city in three dimentional maps.
The Game/concept project for Sony centre / game software, interactive architecture
proposal.
1st prize at Expo 2000 German Pavillion/ exhibition space/ - Realization with Art Lab
Studios. Budget: 20 million DM.
2nd prize / ‘New Years Celebration 2000’ Berlin. Concept - light and time.
1st prize / DASA Light show Berlin. Realization with Art Lab Studio.
1st prize Interior and light design / Club in Metropol Theatre Berlin . Realization with Art
Lab Studio.
Art installation concept/ Checkpoint Charlie 3 meter Fruit- flowers and light sculpture. In
collaboration with Yoku Ikumura.
Exhibitions / Publications TV
2015
2015
2015
2014
2014
2014
2013
2007
2006
2005
2005
2005
DW / Arabic Channel / Mahattat report (world peace vision)
Bayern3 Mensch Otto interview (what is time?)
VIP TV Randomhouse interview (moments of Happiness book)
Alarabia TV interview (From architecture to an international business)
MBC TV interview (The artist, the inventor, the business woman)
Rotana TV Interview ( Why creatitivity can generate happy moments)
Al Arabiya - Stations report ( The joerney of building up alusi candles)
Euromaxx - Deutche Welle TV - report (Time is my Profession)
Einfach Genial sendung- MDR, ( From invention to starting a business)
Einfach Genial sendung - MDR (An inventor )
Zeit In Bild Berlin (ZIBB) Magazin - Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg (Time made visible)
Al Arabiya Stations report ( a visit to an artist and her candle Workshop )
Art Exhibitions and Fairs
2015 Ambiente / Frankfurt, Design fair /Lisbon, Maison d´Objet / Paris, Ambiente / Frankfurt .
2014 Maison d´Objet / Paris, Ambiente / Frankfurt, Index int. exhibition / Dubai
2013 Maison d´Objet -Paris, Ambiente-Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Hamburg.
2013 F37 Gallery Berlin
2006 Aedes Gallery Berlin - Exhibition of ‘Digital Berlin.
2002 Exhibition fifty fifty, Berlin for innovative architectural design: moving Facade.
Social Media Links
Facebook.com/maha.alusi
Facebook.com/AlusiCandles
youtube.com/alusimaha
Instagram - @maha.alusi
Twitter - @maha.alusi
Social Media Links
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www.alusi.com
www.time-akademie.org
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