Abstract:
In Lebanon, in recent years, design activism
has been at the heart of the local discipline, where
designers and architects have resorted to advocacy as the
necessary agency to create change, in a country where
the unprecedented level of economic stagnation, social
and environmental deterioration, has reached its worst.
Several initiatives whether at a personal level, a practice
level, or an academic level, have lately grown strongly
turning designers into active agents, expanding their
roles beyond the bounds of their immediate disciplines
to intervene at wider social and environmental levels.
Description:
This article was featured in a Special Issue of World Architecture Magazine, published at Tsinghua University, China. The issue was co-edited with Kivanc Kilinc under the title "The Cities and Architectures of the Middle East: New Challenges, Emerging Practices" - Issue # 358 - 202004
