Bazaarna is a 3D marketplace and social experience that reimagines how Arabic cultural goods, crafts, and creative work reach buyers, locally and globally.  Craft has been sold in a place for thousands of years. The internet offered a row of thumbnails instead, and what made a souk work (scarcity, presence, the pleasure of finding something you were not looking for) did not survive the move. Bazaarna rebuilds those conditions for Arabic makers, ateliers, and the cultural institutions around them  who have historically been underserved by generic platforms. 

Bazaarna emerged from Studio Madane's Artists & Laborers Working Group, which spent two years focusing on the fragmentation of cultural and craft economies in the region. The venture is now one of Studio Madane's pilots, with the studio as its creative parent (i.e. recruitment, communications, and strategic governance flow through SM's network, etc.).