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Exhibition at Sursock Museum: Planning the City through Play – Youth Efforts in Making Communal Football Fields in Beirut

 09 October 2015 to 11 January 2016

 

 09/10/2017

This project presented in «The City in the City» exhibition at the Sursock Museum, chronicles the development of nine unofficial football stadiums in the city of Beirut and its suburbs. It examines the tools used by youth to transform unbuilt private lands into shared community spaces. «The City in the City» exhibition is part of a research project called «Practicing the Public»

Public Property Spatial Practices and Mobilizations Ard Jalloul Bachoura Beirut Governorate Bir Hassan Karantina Lebanon Mar Elias Camp Mount Lebanon Governorate Ras El-Nabeh
 
 
 
Project

Informal Football Fields, an Alternative Use of Urban Space

To think through the city from the lens of “play” provides us with a new way of seeing its spaces. Arguably, play is a form of knowledge about the spaces where the practice …

Publication

Practicing the Public

This collection of essays and maps digs beyond the apparent dichotomies between public and private spaces in an effort to understand what makes public space such a complex minefield. The publication starts with …

Activity

Camp Radio

Episode One: Play in the Camp

This project is aimed at empowering youth in Mar Elias Palestinian camp (Beirut) by showcasing their abilities and encouraging collaboration in improving their urban environment. The project involves a series of workshops that …

Project

Play in the Camp

In Mar Elias Camp, as in other Palestinian camps, the built environment and shared spaces are in deteriorating conditions. Development projects that are implemented in these settings rarely correspond to the aspirations and …