BFA+MFA 2022

Ghada Al-Qashouti

Our Life is a Game

Graphic Design

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Our Life is a Game responds to the role of women in Qatari society, asking how design and design activism — particularly through humour and play — can bring to light delicate and difficult topics to trigger insight and societal reflection. Societies around the world have viewed women as something inferior on and off again for millennia. Today, not only specific cultural traditions but also contemporary global media continue to perpetuate gender stereotypes without understanding women and their feelings within specific contexts. By exploring the power of games and dark humour within design, I aim to shed light on the role of the female in society—highlighting the marital traditions and daily life tasks—from a Qatari woman’s perspective. Our Life is a Game hopes to focus, question, and make the role of chance in the life of Qatari women visible through sarcasm and dark humour.