Research, Design, Action: The Story of a City’s Identity

Beirut Identity is a humanitarian Competition that was initiated to support the Lebanese community after explosion in port of occurred on August 4th, 2020. Action Design Research (ADR) methodology combined with entrepreneurship education were used as main drivers generate real-life impactful projects for community. This reflects my own ‘out mainstream’ career trajectory and vision create purposeful combining design actionable knowledge. raised awareness destruction caused by Beirut’s invited winning participants implement their Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO). Supported global multi-disciplinary team co-organisers participants, led launch Citi-Zen-s In Crisis 2021, regenerating flow innovation help other communities crisis. paper will discuss how action research applied directed rebuild identity disaster zone.