By Amal Issa 
The second edition of We Design Beirut will run from October 22 to 26, 2025 and treats the city itself as a program. Spread across four landmark venues – Abroyan Factory, Burj El Murr, Villa Audi and the Roman Baths – the event mixes design, craft and architecture to explore heritage as a living force rather than a tourist cliché. The Abroyan Factory hosts Threads of Life and Métiers d’Art, exhibitions that pair traditional and contemporary Lebanese textiles and artisan practices, while Patrick Baz and Anthony Saroufim’s photography show “Skin of a City” experiments with the human body as a canvas of liberation. At Burj El Murr, the student show “Design ‘In’ Conflict” brings together work from nine Lebanese universities to examine how war and reconstruction shape the built environment. Villa Audi’s “Totems of the Present and the Absent” pays tribute to SMO Gallery’s pioneering role in Lebanese design, while the Roman Baths host “Of Water and Stone,” a marble installation linking ancient cleansing rituals with contemporary craft. Guided tours of modernist buildings and excursions to Tripoli’s Niemeyer fair and the Saloua Raouda Choucair Foundation broaden the program beyond Beirut. Rather than a purely commercial fair, the five‑day festival positions design as a tool for collective healing and resilience.
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