EVENT DETAILS
THURSDAY, JUNE 28
City Branding: Beirut, a case of rejuvenation By Blue Hat
Workshop
Beirut has lost its character due to poor urban planning & the emergence of faceless entities. This collaborative workshop will explore how to solve this problem. Participants will use design thinking techniques and branding principles to propose innovative solutions to rebrand the city of Beirut.
Thursday, June 28
9 AM - 6 PM
Abdul Hamid Karami Street, Bab Idriss, Abboud Abdul Razzak Building, 3rd Floor
Fees: 30 USD - including breakfast and lunch
Registration: www.ihjoz.com/events/3358
Beirut Roofs By Janin Walter and Lynn Kain
JaninWalter (integrated urban designer and art teacher) and Lynn Kain (interior designer) are experts in different fields for design. For Beirut design week they want to share their knowledge with interested participants of the Beirut design week. With the workshop we want to create – together with the participants a pilot project, which shows other possibilities of public spaces and enable people to create their own community space including elements for gardening on their roofs.
June 27 and 28
10 AM - 7 PM
ANTWORK
Fees: 120 USD
Registration: ja.wa@berlin.de
Design & the City
Public Installations
BDW18 Parking Lot
Urban Hives by Nathalie Harb
Bees are responsible of the regeneration of our ecosystem, whilst being at risk of extinction.
Beirut gardens have gradually disappeared as a consequence of either war or reconstruction. Many have been erased and transformed into parking lots privately owned.
Urban Hives is a public intervention re-introducing green spaces in parking lots. The project proposes a platform slightly larger than a car, raised on scaffoldings, allowing a car to park underneath it, whilst offering a little garden on its surface with a small section dedicated to urban farming. The low-cost structure is a module that can multiply to become a large communal garden for the local communities, in an attempt to amend the sterile urban landscape of parking lots and raise questions about the possibilities of altering the private sphere by creating within it, public spaces.
Each module is connected to a hive.
Pop-up Waterscape by LOOP
Water is an essential element of life and a medium for social development in cities since the beginning of civilization. Yet water, the main reason for our existence, is being pushed out, polluted and sucked dry in most urban environments around the world. We have lost touch with this fundamental element in our urban surroundings and forgotten about its benefits to our collective well-being. In urban landscapes water has the ability to bring people together to cool down and bond with nature and each other. As an inherent aspect of design that is missing in the city of Beirut, LOOP invites everyone to come experience a playful installation that shows the value of water to human interaction and recreation.
Shame on Us by 21db & Das Scharf
An engaging installation that aims to provoke and punish visitors through negative impulses to the five human senses & highlight key moments of inflicting harm to our city, our environment and our planet.
The guest journey is enhanced by entering a vibrant existing public habitat, a natural environment aiming to reconnect guests through the primary sense of community, shared dialogues & storytelling. Enough is enough, Change is in your hands.
Welcome to the place where everything is exactly as it should be.
Venezuela Street: An Urban Thriving Community By The Submarine
public intervention
The Submarine & The Farm Design will be partnering alongside their communities to renovate their neighborhood Venezuela Street-Jnah. Join us to watch the transformation of a small street in Beirut while indulging in amazing snacks & music
Visions for a social city by Pia Drechsel and Eeva Campbell
Workshop
We believe that inspiring through possibility is more powerful than highlighting problems. Design is our tool to make invisible possibilities into inspiring visions.
We ask:
What does our dream city feel like? And how can we visualise this dream? Especially when it is more about everyday interaction than flying cars. A city equally defined by physical space as by human interaction.
In this workshop we will use design methods, communication strategy and some serious play to create social visions to believe in.
You will come in with ideas of what you would change in the city. You will go out with a strong tool for getting people to believe in your ideas.
Take away:
An understanding of why project visions work
Practical design methods for fuzzy beginnings
Co-creation methods to focus multiple opinions
Visualisation techniques
A real statement and vision
Method cards of the methods used
What we will do:
We start by creatively reframing our definitions of a social city. In groups, we develop statements that clarify ideas, challenges or reasons. We then co-create ideas to connect people or open accessibility. And then we visualise these ideas. The result: strong messages through clear words and the fun of collage – inspiring visions born from a unification of purpose and play.
June 28
10 AM - 4 PM
ANTWORK
Fees: 40 USD
Registration: www.ihjoz.com/events/3360
FoodPrint Lunch by Tatiana Toutikian & Will Brown at Kalei
Curated Lunch
Master-Planning in Lebanon: Manufacturing Landscapes of Inequality by Public Works Studio in collaboration with Legal Agenda
Seminar and Publication Launch
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.
At Dar El-Nimer for Arts and Culture
Wednesday and Thursday 4:30 PM - 8:30 PM
What is the City but People? by Joe Fish
Open Studio
As an active social entity throughout the years, Joe Fish has sought to be a meeting point for people of different backgrounds to share and express their stories. We believe that our experiences shape us, and have the power to ignite change in the world around us. As the 2018 edition of Beirut Design Week approaches, Joe Fish is calling on artists and designers from all disciplines to share their experiences in the city, both good and bad, inequalities they’ve faced, social injustices they’ve witnessed or been subjected to, or the happy moments one can only come across in a cosmopolitan city.There are no rules except for one: it has to be portrayed through the character of Joe.Our office will be transformed into an exhibition space, dedicated to showcasing the interpretations shared by our design community and open to the public, in an effort to keep the conversation going around causes that impact our collective lives. Share your submission on hello@joefish.com to take part.
1% Architecture
Open Studio
Presenting our work in urban planning, architecture, interior architecture, as well as furniture design.
Beirut Beiti by Twig Collaborative
Exhibition
The exhibition showcases Beirut Beiti, an online advocacy platform that helps Beirutis document, activate, and create public spaces. Beirut Beiti claims our right to the city and brings together designers, planners, activists, and denizens around a space of resources, discussion, and activism.
Berytech Meetups: Innovation in Fashion
Beirut Digital District 1075 Rooftop, 5th floor
Networking Event
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.
Beirut Digital District @BDD1075 Rooftop, 5th floor
Thursday, June 28, 2018
6 PM - 7:30 PM
DAMJ 2.0 by DAMJ Design & Craft
Open Studio
After nearly 5 years of operation we've out-grown our workshop! DAMJ has moved down Armenia St to a larger space where we will be adding a storefront gallery, workshop space and more. We invite the BDW community to come join us in a workshop-warming party and help us break in our new spot.
Light in the city by CYNTHIA RAFFOUL Jewelry
Open Studio
Open house, come and discover our latest collection.
Poppies by Sylvette Blaimont Jewelry
Open Studio
Freshly arrived in Beirut, Sylvette Blaimont is an artisan jeweler that creates unusual minimalist pieces characterized by a soft polish that could make you wonder if it was made by the swell of the sea. Now, she presents a jewelry line "Precious Pods" especially created for Beirut Design Week; her Precious Pods made out of 18K allows you to carry seeds with you to sow them here and there in Beirut to allow flowers, hope and dreams to bloom in the city.
Public Practice by Platau
Open Studio
Presentation of projects that we conducted, in which private actors such as design agencies can pair with municipalities or NGOs and become involved in rethinking the urban realm. We will expand on the role of design as a catalyst for public discussion and as a cross-boundary planning tool.
SOLANA LAUNCH
Open Studio
Solana is launching for the first time in Lebanon. During the event, a movie will be projected on the wall; introducing the brand. People will have the chance to try the shoe. There will be a small selling section. Food and drinks will be offered during the event along with some entertainment.
