Urbacraft (@urbacraft) is an
on-demand toy platform. It combines the physicality of LEGO and the hackability
of Minecraft, and allows anyone to imagine, manufacture, and sell their own
designs.
Urbacraft has recently graduated
from the UK Lebanon Tech Hub and the New York based XRC Labs accelerators.
Ayssar Arida (@ayssar) is an
urbatect, writer, educator, and entrepreneur. One of “the brightest urban minds
of today” according to Manuel Castells, his writing includes the influential
book Quantum City. He practiced between London, Paris and Beirut including as
representative for Parsons The New School for Design. His work covers
architecture, urban planning, game development and toy design. Ayssar holds an
MA in Urban Design with Distinction from Oxford Brookes, and a BArch from AUB.
Sabine de Maussion (@urbasab) is a
curator and educator. She was the Head of the Arts Department at the French
Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, International Affairs Officer at Le
Centquatre, and Publics and Education Officer at the Centre Pompidou. She is
PhD candidate at Goldsmiths College in Visual Cultures and teaches both at Alba
and USJ. She holds two Masters with Distinction from La Sorbonne (Postcolonial
Studies) and Paris Dauphine (Economics), and a BA from Inalco (Arabic Language
and Middle Eastern Studies).
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