This article is a call to consider communal engagement a creative process, centered on professional designers’ means of communication and insight. To justify the argument, we first address two reconstruction projects located within Beirut, namely Waad and Solidere, which are of high political importance and have followed a highly hierarchical production process. Then, we will refer to a project of a lesser political importance, the project for the reconstruction of the Nahr al-Bared camp in northern Lebanon.
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