Ribale Haidar


designa, our design community


Designa is a not-for-profit organization network-society aimed at building and growing a collective of socially active designers in Lebanon, conceived in response to their needs. It comes to fill the missing link in the design community by creating networks, building mutually supportive relationships and most importantly, providing common grounds for Lebanese designers working with social incentives. In addition, this society will provide designers with a well-needed sense of identity and belonging among like-minded people.           

Designa strives for providing a platform with online and offline components where adhering members can have access to a community of designers who share the same principals and beliefs about Lebanese design. One of the main drives behind this project is the reaffirmation of the social role of design as a powerful tool for expression and also as a great agent for change.


Designa functions on the basis of five main principles that dictate its activities and its directions.

CONNECT
Establish bonds among individual designers and between existing clusters in order to encourage dialogue and increase awareness of their mutual presence.

FOSTER
Support young or inexperienced designers by developing their confidence in design activism in order to encourage them to rediscover the path of design in society.

DIFFUSE
Facilitate sharing of ideas and concepts between members to spread the knowledge equally among others.

ASSIST
Widen the horizon of design activists in Lebanon through exposing them to today’s global trends of design.

SUSTAIN
Generate new projects opportunities in order to maintain high levels of interest in socially active design and aid designers when following this path.