In 2010, Parisa Tashakori co-curated Divarkoob with Amirhosein Ghoochibeik, a traveling exhibition of 98 contemporary posters by 51 designers that toured five cities across Iran. Reviving an older Persian term historically used for “poster,” the project addressed the growing absence of posters from public space despite their continued production within Iran’s graphic design community.

Conceived as a response to the disconnect between poster production and public display, Divarkoob created temporary platforms that returned poster design to broader audiences. The tour opened in Semnan and Shiraz before traveling to Tehran, where it was exhibited at Vije Gallery in July 2010. Later presentations in Isfahan and Mashhad expanded the project through public programming, including a workshop led by Tashakori, Ghoochibeik, and Saed Meshki in Isfahan and a lecture by Farzad Adibi in Mashhad in December 2010.

The project concluded with the publication of Divarkoob: Off the Hook, a retrospective volume documenting the exhibition tour. Launched at the Iranian Artists Forum in December 2011, the book marked the culmination of a project that connected exhibition-making, public engagement, and graphic design discourse across multiple cities.

Divarkoob was also documented internationally through René Wanner’s Poster Page, a leading archive of poster exhibitions and graphic design activities worldwide.

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