Public
Beirut (Vertical Studio Spring 12 / ArD students)
Public Beirut studio proposed to explore ways by which an
enthusiastic point of view over the becoming of Beirut can produce a direct engagement
with the urban fabric and its uses, envisioning how the meeting of temporary
architecture and public life can alter the seemingly undefeatable privatization
of the city.
Stemming from the assumption that Beirut can still be a city where
all can live and share, where all can inhabit and use, the work of the Public
Beirut Design Studio taught at the FEA American University of Beirut, by Carole
Lévesque, Rana Haddad and Sandra Richani, demonstrates how finding clever
negotiations between current urban growth and possible public spaces opens
opportunities to engage the city as a found fabric with which to envision other
and possible ways of creating a Welcoming city.
The five full scale sites of interventions, developed by
groups of students, addressed architectural and urban problematic under new light
as the first seeds of sustaining, transformative public appropriation
reflecting upon how the city may still be a place of investigation.
The studio
work and outcome of the public event will be presented by two of those
students: HalaTawil and Rami Saab
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