Revelations of Irony

Abstract

Looking at trespass over the city in FYP 1 from Martyr Square, the space of the rich private investors and governmental headquarters, became a public space for the people. Trespassing over core values of the exclusive area of Beirut Downtown, the publicness manifested though streets carts, public festivals, and anti-governmental protests. These different trespass also revealed the different ironies embodied in the Ring, the linking bridge became a main divide between the different fronts, the ring begin a straight line. The Irony of the Ring reaches its peak with the fact that the supposedly linking bridge, reuniting East and West Beirut is actually sitting on the real link, hiding below it the mass graves of the unknown victims of the civil war, perhaps from the East and West fronts. The embodied Irony creates an illusion of power in the city, therefore I am using the trespass over such several ironic sites as a tool to reveal the underlying lies, by trespassing over their core values, and giving the city back to the public sector therefore redefining he city by revealing its tales by trespassing over the existing layer instead of adding new masses to it.