Soup kitchen
In 2020 Studio Beirut opened a soupkitchen after the explosion in the port of Beirut to help the people that were displaced then. In 2,5 months we cooked and delivered 12.000 meals.
In 2020 when he saw homeless elderly in the street, one of our participants started a soup kitchen, the Mariam Cortas initiative. Since the August 4th explosion a team of volunteers provided meals to people in need. (circa 200 meals per day) to the lbtqi community centre in Ashrafieh and the Neighborhood Fridge.
We cook for Beirut from Amsterdam
Two social artists ran a mirror kitchen in Amsterdam. In their backyard they cooked the same meals as the soup kitchen in Beirut. They soldl the meals to people in their neighborhood and donated to the soup kitchen in Beirut.
Fix team
After the August 4th explosion several volunteers helped to make damaged houses inhabitable with doors and windows. Their work was extremely challenging and extremely important.
Research group
Over multiple years students from the faculty of Architecture of KU LEUVEN have been working on post war reconstruction projects with sites in Beirut as case studies. Some of these studies can be seen here.
Energy workshop
In November 2021 a 3 day workshop in Beirut was organized with 5 Lebanese Universities with a focus on energy. Both the reduction of energy use and the green energy generation were part of the program.
The Beyroutes Guide Workshop and Publication
In 2009 a group of local and international urban researchers, artists, writers, designers and anybody who was curious to join a week long of experimental urban exploration. This culminated in an eclectic set of maps, poems, essays and other productions that together form a subjective guide to Beirut: Beyroutes. A guide that investigates the myths and doubles lives, personal and cosmic, of this elusive city.
International Summer School
In August 2007 Studio Beirut brought together an international and interdisciplinary group of students for a two-week workshop investigating the terrain vagues of Beirut and the concept op public space.
Unbuilt Beirut
In the fall of 2006 a week long workshop of local and international architects, designers and artist got together in Beirut researching and discussing the impact war and conflict and trying to imagine beyond the ruins and destructive unbuilding of societies. See here for more info and photographic documentation.
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