Installation
Initiated as part of Architects for Change
Curator
May 2017

CONFESS —
DESIGN THEN & NOW

Many times, design is taken for granted. Even now, your eyes lightly brushed over the statement. So, stop right here. Go back and think about the capacity of design to aid, serve, and SAVE us - or to hurt, oppose, and END us. Should we treat design as a delicate tool that requires an examination prior to utilisation?
Ought we believe that this tool has the potential to annihilate mankind’s total existence? Strive to be moved through a journey that stems from our daily life experiences.
The illuminations reflect the mundane human behavioural phenomena of consumerism, mass production, division in social class, egoistic design…
A fjord of consequent dangers leads the reflections to warn us that Earth is under a grave threat, and the future prospects are unpredictable. We may theorise no further than our present gratifications. The outlet is a mere realisation of a novel dimension.
Design revisits the atom and the cell. Who is ‘We’? Replay?

Credits: Architects for Change 2017 ©

Part of Beirut Design Week 2017, Architects for Change designed an installation to respond to the theme #IsDesignANeed at KED.

Designed by: Cynthia Matar, Mohamad Kahil, Nader Akoum, Nayla Noueihed,& Abbas Sbeity.