RESEARCH

It is essential that projects truly serve the communities they are designed for. Research plays a crucial role in ensuring this outcome, which is why we combine data analysis with consultations that incorporate the voices of a diverse range of community members.

The Global Youth Exchange

With DPU, UCL, Kota Kita, The SHM Foundation
2025

The Youth Urban Forum

With DPU, UCL, Kota Kita, The SHM Foundation
2025

UNDP Safety Audit

With UNDP Lebanon
2025

Sustainable Materials in Lebanon

With Buro Happold
2024

Safe and Inclusive Cities for Girls

With Save the Children
2024

Co-producing Youth Inclusive Digital Urban
Governance (YUP)

With UCL, Kota Kita, SHM Foundation and Fondation Botnar
2023-2026

Rebuilding communities through public space interventions

With UCL and MENASP Network
2023

Playful Cities Design Guide

With RPC, Arup, Placemaking X, the LEGO Foundation
2023

El Mina participatory spatial intervention

With UCL, PROCOL Lebanon, IGP
2022

Prosperity Index
of El Mina

With RELIEF Centre and UCL
2020 – 2022

Citizen Science and Public Spaces

With UNDP Lebanon
2022

Placemaking with Youth in Majdal Anjar

With International Alert
2022

Mar Mikhael citizen scientist-led intervention

With UCL, RELIEF Centre, IGP
2022

Karantina Participatory Spatial Intervention

With UCL, RELIEF Centre, IGP, DPU
2021

Bar Elias PSI – 2 years after

With UCL, DPU, IGP, RELIEF Centre
2021

Assessing Vulnerabilities in Beirut Post-Explosion

With UCL, RELIEF Centre, Institute for Global Prosperity
2021

Participatory Spatial Intervention Scalability

With Real Play City Challenge
2021

Design and implementation guide for young children and caregivers in deprived urban areas

With Arup, Bernard Van Leer foundation
2020

Inhabiting Tell Serhoun

With UCL, DPU, IGP, RELIEF Centre
2020

DeCID Handbook

With DPU, UCL, UNICEF, UN-Habitat
2020

Rural Heritage Recovery and Post-Conflict Development in Erbil’s Rural Periphery

With AUB, BUL, UCL, DPU, Salahaddin University Erbil
2020

Bar Elias Participatory Spatial Intervention

With UCL, DPU, IGP, RELIEF Centre, AUB
2019

Bar Elias learning to be a city

With UCL, DPU, IGP, RELIEF Centre, AUB BUL
2019

Addressing Lebanon’s ‘double crisis’

With UCL, IGP, Salam Ya Sham
2019

Forced migration and adolescent mental health

With UCL, Institute for Global Health, IGP, AUB
2018

PROCOL Lebanon – Vital City

With UCL, RELIEF Centre, DPU, IGP, AUB
2017 – 2023

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RESEARCH

It is essential that projects truly serve the communities they are designed for. Research plays a crucial role in ensuring this outcome, which is why we combine data analysis with consultations that incorporate the voices of a diverse range of community members.

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