Four new public playgrounds in Lebanon offer more than just jungle gyms and slides. Primarily serving people who have been displaced from their homes by conflict, these community spaces, and the architects who created them, aim to engage residents in the entire life cycle of the design.
Architects Joana Dabaj and Riccardo Luca Conti cofounded the nonprofit design studio CatalyticAction in London at the end of 2014, after completing master’s degrees in building and urban design in development at University College London. “We saw what impact the Syrian crisis was having in Lebanon and wanted to test how architecture can be a tool to empower communities,” says Dabaj, who is Lebanese.
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