Initiatives for the City: Architectural Activism in Lebanon
<p>This conversation with Lyne Jabri introduces two examples of architectural activist work she has been participating/conducting. The first one consisted in the reconstruction of the Nahr el Bared Palestinian refugee camp in Northern Lebanon after it had been destroyed by the Lebanese army in 2007. The difficulties of such a project were multiple but we particularly converse around the exercise of retrospective mapping of the old camp to inform a more fair reconstruction. The second example is the work currently accomplished by Lyne and her colleagues of LilMadina Initiative in the Southern Lebanon city of Saida. As the city was under the threat of massive real estate development over agricultural land and its particular history/identity, this collective succeeded in raising awareness on these aspects and to thus inflect the municipal politics. They now continue similar endeavors in neighboring municipalities.</p>
Host: Léopold Lambert
Guests: Lyne Jabri
Part of: The Funambulist Podcast