Spatial Practices and Mobilizations

Video

Urban Struggles in the Arab Region (Videos)

Exchanging Experiences and Methodologies

Public Works Studio, in collaboration with Professor Heba Bou Akar from Columbia University, organized a series of online seminars focusing on experiences, frameworks, and methodologies for addressing the challenges of urban realities in …

Article

Ras el-Nabeh in the Time of COVID

Who Speaks in the Name of the Neighborhood?

Read the Arabic article here.

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 …

Publication

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 …

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 …

Activity

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

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 …

Campaign Video

Demonstrations Demanding the President of the Republic to Reject Amendments to the Rent Law without Guarantees and Housing Alternatives

Project

Rehabilitation of Ajial Youth Center in Nahr al Bared Camp

Since the 2007 war on Nahr al-Bared camp in northern Lebanon, the urban environment in the camp, which has been almost completely destroyed, has not been rehabilitated. By working on the architectural design …

Project

Designing 7 Public Libraries in 7 Palestinian Camps

Through the design of 7 libraries within existing buildings in 7 Palestinian camps, we value importance of working on design projects in camps or informal areas. Such spatial interventions highlight the possibilities informality …

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

Exhibition at Sursock Museum: Recreational sites in 1950s Beirut

English translation in progress.

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 …