(AGENPARL) – Mon 20 October 2025 LE BANO N’S R EV IVA L
EDUCATIONAL HUB
FRO M O CT 2 2 T I LL O CT 2 6
ABOUT
UOB – Dekwaneh Campus
Building on the impactful collaboration with We Design Beirut 2024, ALBA
(Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts | University of Balamand) is proud to
serve as the Educational Hub for We Design Beirut 2025, a city-wide
celebration of design, creativity, and cultural reflection. This collaboration
reflects our ongoing vision to open our academic space to the public and
foster meaningful dialogue between students, professionals, and the wider
community. Our aim is to bridge the gap between the academic and
professional worlds, creating a shared platform for knowledge exchange,
critical discussion, and collective imagination. Through this partnership,
we seek to explore the role of design in shaping contemporary realities and
responding to the unique challenges facing Lebanon today.
Program Day By Day
LECTURES
9:45 am
Opening speech by Fadlallah Dagher – Dean of ALBA-UOB
Amphitheater Samir J. Abillama
10:00 am Samer Eid – SWARM Space, Warfare Aesthetics & Remote Mechanisms
Theme: Hybrid Intelligences – Amphitheater Samir J. Abillama
11:00 am Samar Younes – Quantum Craft:
Remixing Cultural Heritage through Hybrid Intelligence
Theme: Hybrid Intelligences – Amphitheater Samir J. Abillama
ROUND TABLES
Dr. Michael Kaethler Past-Forward: Designing Memory, Making Futures
Theme: Time perceptions and Design – Amphitheater Samir J. Abillama
5:00 pm
Bachir Moujaes
Tactical Urbanism in times of Crisis
Theme: War/After War – Audito 2
WORKSHOPS
2:00 pm
9:00 am – Kareen Andraos
1:00 pm What If… Objects Remembered: Designing Rituals
for Futures Yet Imagined
2:00 pm – Theme: Time perceptions and Design
6:00 pm
LECTURES
Lebanese Army representative
The Mission of the Independent Works Regiment
Theme: War/After War – Audito 2
10:00 am Dalida Snaifer – USEK
The Ouroboros of Sustainability:
Why Caring Shapes the Future of Our Resources
Theme: The Future of Our Resources – Audito 2
11:00 am Serge Harfoush – Buzuruna Juzuruna
Sovereignty: seeds, food, future.
Theme: The Future of Our Resources – Audito 2
12:00 pm Adrian Muller
Home is where Earth is
Theme: The Future of Our Resources – Audito 2
ROUND TABLES
1:00 pm
3:30 pm
WORKSHOPS
Hybrid intelligences
Samar Younes, Samer Eid
Moderator: Kabalan Samaha
Theme: Hybrid Intelligences – Amphitheater Samir J. Abillama
9:00 am – Dr. Michael Kaethler 1:00 pm Past-Forward: Designing Memory, Making Futures
Theme: Time perceptions and Design
2:00 pm 6:00 pm
LECTURES
4:00 pm
9:45 am
The Future of our Resources
Dalida Snaifer, Serge Harfoush, Adrian Muller, Dana Berro
Moderator: Janine Akl
Theme: The Future of our Resources – Amphitheater Samir J. Abillama
Manuela Bonaiti & Guido Masotti (Studio Baolab)
Powered by the Italian Embassy
Next Matter, The Future of Materiality
Theme: Identity through Materiality – Audito 2
12:00 pm Camille Ammoun
The unsettled memory of Beirut’s urban wrecks
Theme: Time perceptions and Design – Audito 2
1:00 pm
Dr. Amos Bianchi SPD/RUFA
On Exactitude in Science. Reading Borges in Beirut, 2025
Theme: Time perceptions and Design – Audito 2
ROUND TABLES
Documenting Artisans and Designers’ collaboration
Students, Boutros Sawaya, Dima Stephan, Tessa Sakhi, Nabil Haswany
Moderator: Dr. Patricia Cortas
Theme: The Future of our Resources – Amphitheater Samir J. Abillama
3:00 pm
Time perceptions and Design
Dr. Michael Kaethler, Dr. Amos Bianchi, Camille Ammoun
Moderator: Kareen Andraos
Theme: Time perceptions and Design – Amphitheater Samir J. Abillama
WORKSHOPS
1:30 pm
LECTURES
12:00 pm Kareen Andraos
The Fabric of Time and Rupture
Theme: Time perceptions and Design – Audito 2
12:00 pm Manuela Bonaiti & Guido Masotti (Studio Baolab)
Powered by the Italian Embassy
4:30 pm Next Matter, The Future of Materiality
Theme: Identity through Materiality
LECTURES
11:00 am Dana Berro
An Ethical Revolution
Theme: The Future of Our Resources – Amphitheater Samir J. Abillama
ROUND TABLES
12:00 pm Prize Announcements & Award Ceremony
for various workshops and exhibitions
12:00 pm Identity through Materiality
Manuela Bonaiti & Guido Masotti (Studio Baolab)
Powered by the Italian Embassy
& Vanessa Dammous – LAU, Reem Hilal, Rami Sbeih, Badria el Osta
Moderator: Marie-Josée Rizkallah
Theme: Identity through Materiality – Amphitheater Samir J. Abillama
Must-see! All our schools such as Architecture, Interior Architecture and Design, Product Design, Graphic Arts and
Advertising, Fashion, Visual Arts, as well as Film and Audiovisual Production are participating in various students’ projects
exhibitions and movie projections at our Dekwaneh campus and other venues throughout We Design Beirut’s week.
LEBANON’S
REVIVAL