With daily electricity cuts and the lingering garbage crisis overwhelming us, it may be hard to keep our attention on the positive: There is a growing “maker movement” in Lebanon—also…
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Design
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Design thinking, as a strategic design and creative problem solving process, is still quite popular in design and business circles and has gained mainstream status, especially as an enabler of…
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My first encounter with the term “design thinking” was five years ago, while researching a project for a client. At the time we were facing a “wicked problem,” a problem…
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Design thinking” is a powerful agent for social innovation, and since its emergence in 2002, when David Kelley of IDEO coined the term, practitioners have been applying it to drive…
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Businesses spent over $3.5 trillion worldwide on technology last year, according to research company Gartner. A large part of these investments is due to digital transformation strategies. Harvard Business Review…
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Three of the world’s top five companies by market value – Apple, Microsoft and Google – today run like nations unto themselves. Each has a utopian headquarters – home base…
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If wayfinding alone were any indication of architectural and industrial design prowess, then Karim Chaya would definitely top the list of Lebanon’s finest. Navigating Lebanon’s chaotic thoroughfares often requires steely…
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Zig zagging through the gentrified neighborhood of Furn el Hayek under a glaring Beirut sun, Executive found itself on a quest for furniture design nirvana, and maybe a cold glass…
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Beirutis often think that Gemmayze is solely a place to relax or catch a late night drink after a long day at the office. But if revellers walked around this…
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Tucked away in one of the many narrow alleyways in Bourj Hammoud is Ralph Rizk’s jewelry prototype 3D printing store. While the 3D Matrix and Diamond office space appears small…
