Mahali Lab

Reflections from Jordan’s Mahali Community Innovation Lab

Lessons learned from Mahali’s first design challenge

The final four solutions centered around housing, vocation, access to transportation, and skill exchange.

"This is not working," I thought as I looked at the struck through, scribbled out training agenda on my table.

Learnings from the Mahali Lab’s first design sprint.

The Mahali Lab embarked on a three-month journey to let the community guide them in defining problems worth solving.

Wesam Alkrad, a young agriculture engineer, fled from Syria in the early years of the war. He describes how he and others like him are…

The Mahali Lab will support Syrian refugees and Jordanian community members to imagine and design new solutions.