Kenan Alkuwatly is a Syrian designer living and working between Berlin and Damascus. Rooted in the material and narrative heritage of the Levant, his practice moves between design, research, and craft, developing culturally rooted objects that approach craft traditions as living forms of knowledge and storytelling, bridging inherited techniques with contemporary design thinking.

In 2026, he founded MSN3 DMSHQ, a craft lab dedicated to recontextualizing Damascus’s craft scene through historical research and close collaboration with artisans. At its core, the lab explores the tensions and transformations of craft traditions in a globalized present. Rather than approaching craft as a static heritage to be preserved, it investigates how inherited knowledge and techniques can evolve through dialogue, experimentation, and reinterpretation within contemporary cultural and material systems.

His work has been exhibited during Paris Design Week 2025 and Mexico Design Week 2026. He received nominations for the German Design Award in 2024 and 2026, and was a finalist for the Arab Design Award 2025.