SATURDAY JUNE 23
NETWORKING EVENT
DESIGNING THE FUTURE OF TRIPOLI'S FURNITURE PRODUCTION
UNDER THE WOOD PROCESSING SECTOR COMPONENT OF THE PSD PROGRAMME
Funded by the European Union in Lebanon and implemented by Expertise France
Saturday, June 23
11 AM - 1 PM
Antwork
An exciting brunch of discussions and networking, sharing product design trends and expressing thoughts on designing the future of Tripoli’s furniture production.
Join our enthusiastic talks and meet influential Lebanese designers and experts!
PRESENTATIONS & GUEST SPEAKERS:
Connect and design with Tripoli's wood processors
Mrs. Rola Haida, General Manager, L'Artisan du Liban
Design makes all the difference
Come and find out the influential Lebanese designer behind this talk!
Behind the scenes of an exciting upcoming platform
Mr. Dany Abboud, Member of the board of the Association of Lebanese Industrialists (ALI)
Tripoli's design challenge...From sketches to creation
Mr. Ibrahim Zahreddine, co-founder of Innovation Factory
MONDAY JUNE 25:
PANEL DISCUSSION
BETWEEN SITE AND STUDIO
Part of Forum on Cities and Designers in partnership with Public Works Studio
Monday, June 25
Practitioners are invited to critically reflect on methodologies, tools, and processes chosen in relation to physical sites and their complexities. This panel is a prompt for designers and researchers to reflect on methods, politics, tools, abstraction, complexity in representation.
SPEAKERS:
- Claudia Martinez Mansell, Balloon Mapping Bourj Al Shamali
- Ahmad Gharbieh (American University of Beirut), Refugees as City-Makers
- Sergej Schellen (Bus Map Project), Connecting the Map to the Street: Design & Civic Action
- Mustapha Jundi, Between Land and Sea
Discussant: Majd Al Shihabi
Language: English
TUESDAY JUNE 26:
TALK & NETWORKING EVENT
WHY DESIGN NEEDS BUSINESS - WHY BUSINESS NEEDS DESIGN
BY IED - ISTITUTO EUROPEO DI DESIGN
Tuesday, June 26
6 PM - 7 PM
The Instituto Cervantes in Beirut, Beirut Digital District
A conversation between Dario Assante - IED Madrid Director and Ghassan Salameh BDW Creative Director and IED Alumnus
How young designers can launch their own business? What tools are currently available in an ever changing market? Is design education enough to succeed?
How well established companies are looking at design methodology and design thinking to be more competitive in a complex and global market?
How designers can find disruptive ways to face challenges and to solve customer pains?
Designers could play a decisive role in companies' boards, improving a different approach to business!
PANEL DISCUSSION
THE POSITIONED SELF
Part of Forum on Cities and Designers in partnership with Public Works Studio
Tuesday, June 26
6:30 PM
Beit Beirut
Practitioners are invited to critically reflect on their positionality (social, economic, professional) in a particular design project or practice. As many questions and concerns arise in our respective practices in relation to ethics, hierarchies, stakeholders’ participation and positionality, this panel will provide the space to articulate these issues, identify spaces of possibility, and collectively re-think design processes.
SPEAKERS:
- Nour Madi, Recovering Topographies
- Samer Chinder (UN-Habitat), The Space and The Public
- Saba Innab, Momentary Foundations: Reconstructing Nahr el Bared Camp
- Abir Saksouk (Public Works Studio), The Space of Community
Discussant: Samar Kanafani
Language: Arabic
TALK & NETWORKING EVENT
DESIGN IN DUBAI
BY DOWNTOWN DESIGN & DUBAI DESIGN WEEK
Tuesday, June 26
7 PM - 7:30 PM
The Instituto Cervantes in Beirut, Beirut Digital District
A presentation by Rue Kothari, Director of Downtown Design and Rawan Kashkoush, Head of Programming of Dubai Design Week on the creative economy, opportunities and points of access to of the rapidly expanding city’s creative and business networks, including an overview of programming and activity of the events taking place this November.
TALK
DESIGNING LIVEABLE CITIES: WHAT ARE WE MISSING?
BY BLUE HAT
We will feature a series of Pecha Kucha presentations by interesting speakers from different Design fields. They will discuss how design has inspired change, responded to challenges, and solved problems in cities worldwide. A panel discussion will follow to discuss solutions suitable for Beirut.
WEDNESDAY JUNE 27:
SEMINAR & PUBLICATION LAUNCH
MASTER-PLANNING IN LEBANON: MANUFACTURING LANDSCAPES OF INEQUALITY
BY PUBLIC WORKS STUDIO IN COLLABORATION WITH LEGAL AGENDA
Wednesday, June 27 and Thursday, June 28
4:30 PM - 8:30 PM
At Dar El-Nimer for Arts and Culture
How does urban planning happen in Lebanon? What is the drive behind it? In what ways does it violate our collective rights? Join us for a 2-day seminar and publication launch where we discuss how planning replicates inequalities and power relations and maintains the dominance of the privileged. By presenting timelines, maps, and case studies from Zouk, Damour, Adloun, Tunis and more, we show how factors such as law, ownership, identity, and interests contribute to displacing practices, livelihoods and sometimes communities.
THURSDAY JUNE 28:
TALK & NETWORKING EVENT
BERYTECH MEETUPS: INNOVATION IN FASHION
BY BERYTECH
Thursday, June 28
6 PM - 7:30 PM
Beirut Digital District, BDD1075 Rooftop, 5th floor
Fashion entrepreneurship, innovation, and funding experts talk about the future of the fashion industry, trends in fashion technology, growing your fashion business and getting it funded in the June edition of the Berytech Meetups: Innovation in Fashion - part of the Beirut Design Week.
SEMINAR & PUBLICATION LAUNCH
MASTER-PLANNING IN LEBANON: MANUFACTURING LANDSCAPES OF INEQUALITY
BY PUBLIC WORKS STUDIO IN COLLABORATION WITH LEGAL AGENDA
Wednesday, June 27 and Thursday, June 28
4:30 PM - 8:30 PM
At Dar El-Nimer for Arts and Culture
How does urban planning happen in Lebanon? What is the drive behind it? In what ways does it violate our collective rights? Join us for a 2-day seminar and publication launch where we discuss how planning replicates inequalities and power relations and maintains the dominance of the privileged. By presenting timelines, maps, and case studies from Zouk, Damour, Adloun, Tunis and more, we show how factors such as law, ownership, identity, and interests contribute to displacing practices, livelihoods and sometimes communities.