habibeh madjdabadi: symbolic hands

‘symbolic hand’

‘symbolic hand’ and ‘millions of intelligent hands’ by habibeh madjdabadi from iran are two of the 150 shortlisted entries from the recent designboom competition ‘the intelligent hand’ in collaboration with macef.

both projects stand as symbols of the hands of protestors in iran. they represent the hands that vote and protest in a green rally for democracy.

the jury is almost finished making their selections and the results of the competition will be unveiled on january 15th, 2010.

‘symbolic hand’ a voting hand

‘millions of intelligent hands’

‘millions of intelligent hands’ is a more abstract version of the voting hand

‘millions of intelligent hands’