The Sinsila Center (https://sinsila.org/) is located in the heart of East Jerusalem, on the terraces of the Central Library. It began as the Sinsila Library but has now expanded to include a second workshop branch—the first carpentry and workshop space in East Jerusalem. Sinsila is dedicated to educating, inspiring, and empowering local communities while healing Jerusalem’s urban environment through sustainable solutions. Tariq Nassar was born in 1984 and grew up in Ras Al-Amoud neighborhood in East Jerusalem. He has a BA in Architectural Engineering from BirZeit University and a double Masters degree in Integrated Urbanism and Sustainable Design from Stuttgart University (Germany) and Ain Shams University (Cairo). Tariq has worked in the USA, Jordan, Tunisia, West Bank and Israel as a freelance architect and an urban planner working on several projects focusing on placemaking, master plans and community development, with a specific focus on the East Jerusalem neighborhoods. Recent projects include the Jerusalem ‘Making Places’ Program, a multiyear Placemaking program throughout the city in various East Jerusalem neighborhoods. He has worked as curator for the 2019 Matchmaker Project, part of the annual Jerusalem Design Week, which hosted contemporary Palestinian designers from East Jerusalem and craftsmen from all over the West bank. In addition, he was part of the management and research team for a project funded by the EU Peacebuilding Initiative on ‘Building Visions for the Future of Jerusalem: A Bottom UP Approach’, which includes Placemaking, Photovoice and graphic design elements, working with communities in neighbourhoods in East and West Jerusalem.