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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الثامنة
The 8th
بيروت
Beirut
NOUR HABIB & MELINA JAFARIAN
Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, often called
the Paris of the Middle East, during the French
mandate there have been many attempts to
organize the city’s urban design taking inspiration
from the French cities design, mostly Paris.
Although the endeavor to organize Beirut city by
the French government was a bit of a success in
the downtown of Beirut, mostly around la place
de l’étoile, it did not lead to the same result
in the other districts of Beirut. In some of the
districts we can see the difference between the
old buildings and the new ones with the spacing
between them, the nature of the materials used
and their heights. New constructions tend
to be more distant from other constructions
and the new buildings are more ecological and
greener with less energy waste. And so we can say
that Beirut is a mix of designs and doesn’t follow
a fixed pattern. Which shows Beirut is a city
of coexistence, with all types of social classes,
religions, culture and history.
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