Detached houses (with gardens) – Buildings (5 floors) – Agricultural lands – Health services – Bakery – Everyday essentials’ shops – Commercial shops – Pedestrian street and stairs – Tree planting, expansion, and opening of streets – Public transportation and bus stops (regular) – Kindergarten – Women’s craft training center (recycling workshops) – Social spaces and parks – Recreational areas (with entry fee) – Cultural spaces (own project and others that are self-financed) – Services facilities – Renovation and rehabilitation of existing structures – Increasing retention – Nature reserve – Lake

Fida' alKhatib

Fida’ pictured creating spaces that combine urban features that she drew from her experience of living in Dubai for a year, with rural features that she enjoys as a resident of Ein Qiniya since birth. In her proposals, she focused on spaces for culture and arts, and to have them allocated to self-financing projects. As an artist, she wished to have the space to create her own project, an exhibition space that doubles as a training center for women (including on recycling methods). Fida’ imagined expanding the school with playgrounds and additional classes, new streets, and regular public transportation. Her imaginations included preserving agricultural areas, and the provision of basic services and supplies shops. She commended the, then, recently implemented street lighting project and noted its great impact on life in the village. Fida’ addressed the importance of imagination as a stimulator for hope and continuation, saying: “Why do we sometimes resort to imagination? Because in reality one cannot achieve all wishes. There are things that I secretly wish for, sometimes I let my thoughts wander, I imagine what I would change in me, what I can do, and what the target is. One feels it is possible to achieve things, but what? in the imagination, and then with some time one can achieve what one had pictured in reality.”

Takhayali Ein Qiniya Masterplans

2022, canvas A1