Beirut Designs is a Madar Onboz education and outreach program targeting Lebanese youth and educators. We choose design thinking because it demonstrates the possibilities of finding several solutions to a single problem; it dissects the process through which a solution is executed; it develops critical and imaginative thinking; and finally it is a great pedagogical tool that plays across art, culture, and science.
Beirut Designs selects a yearly theme for which a book, an object, a documentary film, a performance, a lecture, and a visual glossary are created. These are presented within an annual teaching module implemented in schools and universities across Lebanon. We partner with Beirut Design Fair as our launching platform, with Boisseliers du Rif, SS Silkscreen, 53 Dots, and Eid Printing Press as our makers, and the Ministries of Culture and Education as our facilitators.