The Co-Production of a Shared Community Space in Al-Khodor, Karantina, in the Aftermath of the Beirut Port Blast

Howayda Al-Harithy () and Batoul Yassine ()
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Howayda Al-Harithy: Department of Architecture and Design, Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut 1107, Lebanon
Batoul Yassine: Beirut Urban Lab, Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut 1107, Lebanon

Land, 2023, vol. 12, issue 7, 1-19

Abstract: This paper explores urban recovery as a participatory bottom-up process that highlights the importance and social significance of spaces of shared memories in reconstituting the built as well as the sociocultural fabrics of a place. It examines the multiple modes of engaging local communities in the process of recovering and rehabilitating shared public spaces, including organizing workshops to identify a space of common social significance, co-designing and co-producing a spatial intervention, and maintaining the intervention over the long term. The paper focuses on Karantina, a neighborhood in Beirut that became the site of post-disaster recovery in the aftermath of the Beirut Port blast in August 2020, and the spatial intervention that the urban recovery team at the Beirut Urban Lab implemented in the sub-neighborhood of Al-Khodor. In doing so, the paper contributes experiences from recent work on participatory modes of engaging the local community groups in Al-Khodor. It highlights the importance of community participation in researching, designing, implementing, and maintaining spatial interventions in the near absence of an active government in a country such as Lebanon.

Keywords: participation; co-design; co-production; community engagement; community space; shared public space; urban recovery; post-disaster (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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