Innovating in Iraq - Profiling Wafa
In celebration of International Women in Engineering day 2019, we decided to interview our Iraq Innovation Advisor, Wafa Al-Attas, who is...
top of page
_edited.png)
BLOG
Search
Jun 23, 20194 min read
Iraq's only female-led makerspace
If you visit our newly established Field Ready: Erbil Makerspace, housed in the Re:Coded House co-working space, you’ll find Ravin and...
Jun 6, 20192 min read
Makerspace in Iraq
Field Ready is pleased to announce the launch of a brand-new makerspace in Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Field Ready: Erbil Makerspace...
Mar 8, 20192 min read
Field Ready launches new project in Iraq
Iraq faces a critical time in its turbulent recent history. Different areas of the country face a myriad of humanitarian, reconstruction...
Jan 11, 20192 min read
Interview: Iraq Technical Advisor
Reuf (pictured left) is the Technical Advisor to our Iraq project. He is originally from Sarajevo, Bosnia. So he is intimately familiar...
Jan 8, 20192 min read
‘Hacking’ medical equipment repair in war-torn Mosul
Following three years of occupation by ISIL and intense fighting to remove them, the healthcare system of the Northern Iraqi city of...
Oct 3, 20182 min read
Iraq Soap Project Outcomes
In acute emergencies, children face a disproportionate risk of disease due to various factors perpetuated by poor water quality, lack of...
Jun 21, 20183 min read
Sparking Imagination, Creating & Making Child-Designed Soap in Iraq
After spending a fun-filled week with our child-designers, we had a set of 12 animals to be placed inside different combinations of...
May 3, 20181 min read
Soap Making in Iraq: Stage 2
After spending a fun-filled week with our "child designers" (see here), we set up 12 animals to be placed inside different combinations...
Feb 16, 20183 min read
Interactive Product Design and Prototyping Workshop in Iraq Stage: 1
Will having a toy inside a soap help encourage children to wash their hands? Instinctively, it may seem a likely hit but a great on paper...
bottom of page