Head of future Thinking Mariano Alesandro, from INDEX: Design to Improve Life, will run a short hands-on workshop with focus on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. 

You will get to know the structure of the design based innovation tool The Compass, and you will experience some of the basic techniques and their teaching and learning effects.

Mariano is looking into the future’s horizon, analysing how the designs in INDEX: Award's pipeline work together, identifying design trends, the drivers of change behind them, and how they can help solving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

June 26

10 AM - 1 PM

Antwork

Fee: 40 USD

Register: www.ihjoz.com/events/3357

Tours 

Meeting point:  Ginette Cafe, Gouraud Street, Gemmayzeh

Discover how we're building a living home for a better city, by taking a tour in our CONVIVIUM Home, a Living apartment that embodies the characteristics of new technologies and Biophilic design in the heart of Gemmayze. 

This tour will explain how technological and natural features and processes are integrated in the design of the built space. The participants will learn about the several sustainable practices applied such as the  sustainable materials used, highly efficient mechanical systems with underfloor heating and cooling, domestic grey-water treatment plant, waste management system, recycling and composting, selection of native and beneficial plant species…

June 26 

1 PM - 1:45 PM

3 PM to 3:45 PM

Registration: katia@theotherdada.com 

Meeting point: Saint Georges Hotel - on the sidewalk, Corniche 

A walking tour in the Beirut Central District that talks about the controversial reconstruction project of the area after the war. We look into the political, legal, archeological and social aspects of the project.

June 26 

3 PM - 6 PM

Fees: 10 USD

Meeting point: Saint Georges Hotel

Registration: Calling/Whatsapping +961 70 347 571

In this workshop, we explore an emerging (transdisciplinary) field of design - Governance Design. Governance Design is an activist practice, which cuts across traditional design disciplines such as product design, service design and architecture, and calls for an increased awareness and concern for the governing effect of design at large. It highlights the need for designers to be consciously aware of how relations of power and accountability are produced or reproduced through design(ing), and the extend to which societal norms and values influence how and what we design.

 

Through a mix of presentations and small group exercises, this workshop will immerse you in the world of Governance Design. We will together explore the governing effects of mundane objects and technologies and consider how designers, more consciously and deliberately, may use design as a means of questioning and rethinking, societal governance relations. As Governance Design can involve activism, we will also discuss the ethical considerations of engaging in this potentially disruptive practice.

Tuesday, June 26

3 PM - 6 PM

antwork

Fees: 40 USD

Register: www.ihjoz.com/events/3357

Everybody is an artist in his/her own special way.Art enhance building resilient youth by its ability to rebound,bounce back,and transcend adversity.

The public intervention aims to create a cohesive art piece through unleashing the creativity of youth who will use diverse types of materials.

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.

As part of Beirut Design Week, Creative Space Beirut invites you to our studios to learn about our free fashion school, meet the students, explore their works in progress and the creative design process, all over refreshments. Browse and shop csb ready to wear and SECOND st.'s summer collections.

"The studio presents its debut furniture collection with a family of sculptural seating objects grounded in cement. Each piece is hand fabricated from start to finish and a continuation of the poem dedicated to concrete forms housing natural life."

For this event, we produced a series of plain white t-shirts with embroidered illustrations that are all summer related.

Bokja believes that design should always have a "raison d'être” For this design week we cannot emphazise enough on how it is necessary for a city during harsh times to find a window of escape. Our recent collection “Excuse me reality, fantasy is a must” seems to do just that.

RANDA TABBAH will be hosting OLIVER DEGEM. His first jewelry collection "PLANÈTE", made of sterling silver, is a childhood dream reflecting his two main fascinations; sleek lines and statement pieces.

Nada Zeineh cordially invites you to celebrate the launching of her new summer collection. Join us Tuesday June 26 on the showroom terrace for our annual rendez-vous.

Come for the open bar… of aromatic herbs! At the counter of our Bar Unit, you will find potted aromatic herbs to harvest at home for delicately perfumed meals and drinks. We will leave you inspired with tastings and recipe ideas featuring thyme, mint, sage and others as key ingredients.

An exploration of public seating in a beautiful city that seems to lack the bare necessities, `Come Sit Next to Me` invites users to engage with their surroundings and take a seat to simply enjoy little moments…

"The exhibition revolves around Carla’s new found relationship with marble as not just a medium but a source of inspiration that would guide her creative process. The hereby collection seeks to stage an elegy to marble not merely as a medium, but even more so as a subject and an object where the point of departure and destination loop into each other.

Through this collection Carla strives to redefine the conventional approach to marble as simply a robust material and instead show its fragility and delicacy. The designer adapts a more poetic approach to shed light on the natural graphics and colors of the stone.

Talking about her experience Carla states: “Through our experiments we have sometimes chosen specific natural colors, sometimes decided to use a simple white marble as a canvas for a more audacious approach, tainting it with bolder colors with resin. Whether in its pure form or as a result of this series of tests, marble never ceases to offer different possibilities and outcomes, making it a very exciting journey.”

The designer will unveil three series of objects that decontextualize the material. The pieces are an invitation to revisit what we know about marble and to allow ourselves to be more experimental and open, all the while respecting the integrity of the subject."

A chic, fun, and creative project presenting functional and surprising solutions to light one’s interior in style, the book presents DIY lamps conceived by Le Grand appartement and guest designers.

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!

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.

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

June 26 

6:30 PM 

Beit Beirut 

L'artisan du Liban is a social enterprise who strives to keep Lebanese culture alive and artisans active. Our mission is aligned with the preservation of traditional handicraft know-how, in today’s taste and designs. The value created is measured by the socioeconomic impact we attain in Lebanon. 

By staying true to our mission, our take on Beirut Design Week's 2018 theme is to put forth the work and effort behind objects surrounding us and used in our everyday life, showcasing the fruit of artisans' hard labor. L'Artisan du Liban is bringing the work, machinery and artisans behind these objects to the city. Through projection, exhibition and workshops passersby will experience firsthand the time, effort, care, and love there is in every artisanal object.