Mapping the City - A creative approach on Beirut
During the Beirut Design Week 2018 creatives explored the neighbourhoods of Beirut. The participants developed themes and concepts referring to the city based on social issues, personal experiences and its visual language. Design thinking, design skills, and public participation are key tools and drivers for this project. They are all used as the methodology to explore, analyze, visualize and respond to the neighbourhood’s life and its people. The workshop aims to encourage social change-makers within this community. Once sensitised to their social and cultural context, participants are encouraged to take an active and responsible role towards a complex urban environment they live and work in. The social design workshop is an initiative from andrews & degen, a research-based graphic design agency located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The workshop ‘Mapping the city - A creative approach on...’ has already been conducted in more than 25 different cities around the world. For all the results please visit www.mappingthecity.com. We would like to thank the Goethe-Institut in Beirut, the Beirut Design Week and Public Work Studio for making this workshop happen.
During the Beirut Design Week 2018 creatives explored the
neighbourhoods of Beirut. The participants developed themes
and concepts referring to the city based on social issues,
personal experiences and its visual language.
Design thinking, design skills, and public participation are
key tools and drivers for this project. They are all used as the
methodology to explore, analyze, visualize and respond to
the neighbourhood’s life and its people. The workshop aims
to encourage social change-makers within this community.
Once sensitised to their social and cultural context, participants
are encouraged to take an active and responsible role towards
a complex urban environment they live and work in.
The social design workshop is an initiative from andrews & degen,
a research-based graphic design agency located in Amsterdam,
the Netherlands. The workshop ‘Mapping the city - A creative
approach on...’ has already been conducted in more than 25
different cities around the world. For all the results please visit
www.mappingthecity.com.
We would like to thank the Goethe-Institut in Beirut,
the Beirut Design Week and Public Work Studio for making
this workshop happen.
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Over the last years I’ve been occupied with one
set of questions - this interest in understanding
my surroundings through materials and surfaces
and how to approach these materials. The basis
for my work is a paper technique that is used in
archaeology to take imprints of rock inscriptions.
This kind of paper was originally used to record
texts that have been carved by people onto
stones. I use this imprinting technique in several
ways to explore the qualities of various stone
surfaces.
During the workshop Mapping the City I
interviewed Ghassan Maasri, who founded
Mansion in 2012 as a multi-purpose collective
space, situated in the Quarter of Zokak el-Blat.
Mansion is a grand villa from the 1930s, where
you can still find architectural surfaces from the
30s. After the meeting with Ghassan I went back
to the building to adhere the paper to a portion
of the wall that had been cut away for a study on
the building’s sustainability and reveals a former
hidden piece of history. With this technique I
produce a perfect copy of the surface. I am going
to use this imprint to create a new wall fragment
on the base of this imprint.
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