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During Copenhagen Fashion Week, The David Collection presents a special edition of David’s Bazar. This pop-up exhibition and accompanying talk bring together Jordanian-Palestinian designer Sylwia Nazzal (Nazzal Studio) and multidisciplinary artist Jad Mag, whose practices intersect through materiality, heritage, and contemporary expression.

Al-Najah is Nazzal Studio’s latest collection and a conceptual exploration of Bedouin ways of life. Using natural materials, craftsmanship, and tactile processes, the collection transforms essential elements of Bedouin life — rope, fire, stars, and community — into modern, sensorial forms.

The exhibition invites visitors to step away from urban acceleration and reconnect with simplicity, craftsmanship, and presence. It honours Bedouin cultural heritage as a living source of inspiration rather than a nostalgic reference.

The exhibition is curated by Khersikollektive.

About Sylwia Nazzal

Sylwia Nazzal founded Nazzal Studio during her studies. The brand brings together fashion, ethics, and activism and collaborates, among others, with refugee women. She has received international recognition, including the Franca Sozzani Debut Talent Award and the Fashion Trust Arabia Award.

About Jad Mag

Jad Mag is a 26-year-old Jordanian-Filipino artist based in Amman. Self-taught and working full time with his practice, his process is built entirely from the ground up. He produces his own charcoal and ink, works with indigo blue and natural latex, and embeds sand from Wadi Rum directly into his works. Even the surfaces themselves are constructed by hand, allowing the materials to carry their own history, weight, and sense of place. His contribution to the exhibition reflects on survival instincts that surface when the noise of the city and the speed of contemporary life are stripped away.

The talk will be held in English.

How is a city shaped when past, present, and future constantly collide? Istanbul is a metropolis in perpetual motion - a place where migration, sustainability, and cultural encounters continuously rewrite the language of architecture. Here, tradition and modernity stand side by side, and it is in this tension that new ways of thinking about the city and identity emerge.

In this edition of Davids Bazar, we invite you to a conversation on the role of architecture in one of the world’s most dynamic cities. A panel will explore how Istanbul’s urban transformations can inspire new ways of understanding the city’s social and aesthetic dimensions and what lessons Danish cities can draw from a constant state of change.

The panel features Ane Cortzen, Anne Marie Galmstrup (Director), and Naime Esra Akin (Teaching Associate Professor, Architect MAA, PhD, Aarhus School of Architecture). The conversation unfolds at the intersection of culture, architecture, and society, asking the central question: What happens when the city itself becomes a laboratory for future forms of community?

The talk will be held in English.

When empires collapse, they do not simply disappear; they leave behind legacies, traumas, and enduring political conflicts. This talk explores how the Ottoman Empire continues to haunt the present-day Middle East, the Caucasus, and Crimea.

The panel will discuss the connections between the empire’s dissolution and contemporary conflicts - from Palestine/Israel to Georgia and Ukraine. The conversation unfolds at the intersection of history, anthropology, and international politics, offering insights into how the past continues to shape political relationships and regional dynamics.

The panel features experts including Mogens Pelt (Islamic Studies) and Petek Onur, and is moderated by Waleed Safi. The discussion offers the audience a deeper understanding of how the aftershocks of an empire continue to reverberate across generations — politically, culturally, and socially.

The talk will be held in English.