Karantina

Forming Social Support Networks:

Alternative Approaches to Resolving Housing Disputes

Based on the Housing Monitor report for the months of September, October and November 2021 During September, October and November, the Housing Monitor tracked 46 cases of housing precarity, affecting a total of …

July and August 2021

The Housing Monitor is publishing its periodic report for July and August 2021. In this period, 40 cases of threatened cases were monitored affecting 206 people including 3 elderly people, 20 single women, …

May and June 2021

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January and February, 2021

Throughout the first two months of year 2021, 88 cases have been reported, relating to housing vulnerability affecting 237 individuals, almost half of which were children. These reports included 36 single women threatened …

November and December 2020

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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 …

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 …

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 …