The Beirut Project is an evolving, speculative research initiative that reimagines Beirut beyond its long-standing narrative of conflict. It envisions alternative versions of the city across parallel realities and future imaginaries.

Adopting a geocritical approach, the project incorporates frameworks of spatiotemporality, transgressivity, and referentiality, alongside phenomenology and Foucault’s notion of heterotopia. It explores how familiar spaces of the city can be experienced as unfamiliar and new, allowing residents to envision and live in multiple, coexisting realities within Beirut.

Emerging from my MFA thesis in the Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media, and Design (IAMD) program at OCAD University (April 2024), The Beirut Project invites viewers to perceive Beirut from new and unexpected perspectives. Through fragmented and multifocal architectures, it fosters creative uncertainty and imagination, opening a space for collective reimagining and a transformative vision for the future of Beirut and its inhabitants.

This initiative is conceived as a collaborative and multidisciplinary endeavour, open to partnerships with friends, allies, and the wider community.