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The Beirut Design Week 8th Edition  was launched under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture on Monday July 1st at its main venue hidden nestled between the walls of Starco monument.


Design and art aficionados, VIPs, media representatives, bloggers and influencers attended the opening ceremony  and discovered this year's "Design and Nostlagia" iconic venue and  participating artists and designers out of the box  creative work. 


The venue was selected on purpose, in line with the theme; Starco stands tall in the heart of Downtown Beirut as a timeless monument. It became a familiar landmark but it also has broken the barrier between the past and the present. As BDW's main venue, organizers aimed to honor its memory as a historical asset in Beirut


The Beirut Design Week 8th edition revealed the grand cru work of both local and international creative actors and leaders offering them a space to explore the relationship between nostalgia and the different design disciplines that have blossomed across the years and offering guests a  mesmerizing glance at  Beirut's precious "golden days" while projecting a futuristic perspective of the Lebanese design industry. 



Beirut Design Week 8th edition will last until Sunday the 7th of July.


The curated program will be held at STARCO, featuring a series of installations, exhibitions, talks and workshops by local & international creatives:The exciting lineup of speakers and exhibitors across different disciplines includes:

- Mathieu Le Sourd (MAOTIK) | French New Media Artist All-week exhibition-Thomas Ollivier | Freelance creative and art director based in London All-week exhibition-Moshtari Hilal | Visual artist from Hamburg All-week exhibition -Adra Kandil | Lebanese Art Director  All-week exhibition-Sarah Bahbah | Palestinian-Austrialian artist  All-week exhibition- Diletta Toniolo | Lecturer at Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) July 2nd -Johannes Torpe | Former Creative Direcor of Bang & Olufsen July 2nd -Pascal Zoghbi | Lebanese Typographer July 3rd- Sofiane Si Merabet | The Confused Arab | Franco- Algerian Cultural cartographer July 4th- Pablo Sendra | Lecturer at The Bartlett School of Planning (UCL) July 4th Ramsey Naja | CCO of J. Walter Thompson Middle East & Africa July 5th -Nour Tabet | Senior Art Director at HUGE in Washington DC July 5th -Jana Traboulsi | Lebanese visual artist, graphic designer and illustrator July 5th-Lina Ghotmeh | Award-winning Franco-Lebanese Architect based in Paris  July 6th-Aoi Hasegawa | Course Leader of the Domus Academy Master in Interior Design July 6th- Platau | Architecture and urbanism studio July 6th - Alfred Tarazi | Acclaimed Lebanese Artist July 6th -Filipa Wunderlich | Course Director of MRes Inter-Disciplinary Urban Design at The Bartlett (UCL) July 6th-Salim Azzam | Lebanese Award-Winning Fashion Designer July 6th -Athina Papadopoulou | Senior Architect / Planning Officer at Nicosia Municipality July 6th -Carmel Gradoli | Adjunct professor of the Department of Architectural Composition at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura - Universitat Politècnica de València July 6th 


In addition, a series of exhibitions and events organized by Beirut Design Week will take place across Beirut. Participants and their respective events are scheduled per region as follows:July 1 BDW opening at STARCO July 2 Hamra / Verdun / DownTown  + StarcoJuly 3 Gemmayze / Mar Mikhael / Jisr El Wati + StarcoJuly 4 Badaro / Achrafieh / Monot + StarcoJuly 5 BDW main venue StarcoJuly 6 BDW main venue StarcoJuly 7 BDW sunset closing party


Over the years, Beirut Design Week has consistently managed to bring together creatives from different parts of Lebanon to express themselves in a novel way each year.