Designing for Culture, Community & Co-Creation - Abbas Sbeity

Send us Fan MailAbbas Sbeity (b. 1991, Lebanon) is a designer, curator, and cultural manager based in Helsingborg, Sweden. He leads Creative Insights Studio, offering design and research consultancies for the public sector and development agencies, and runs his curatorial practice through his newly founded organization, Kulturrummet, focusing on site-specific, community-driven projects.His work often engages local communities through participatory and co-creation processes, using ethnographic, phenomenological, and critical mapping approaches to explore social, political, and urban issues.Abbas teaches Design Theory and Management at the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (Lebanon) and is a guest lecturer in the Embedded Design program at HDK-Valand, Gothenburg University (Sweden). His extensive cultural management experience includes leading learning projects and grant schemes for artists, journalists, and cultural practitioners across the MENA region.He holds an MA in Design from the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts and a BA in Architecture from the Lebanese University. Abbas is the founder of Architects for Change (2014-2019) and a member of the MENA Design Research Center, where he managed and programmed four editions of Beirut Design Week (2015-2019).Get in contact with Abbas: Abbas Sbeity - Linkedin  www.abbassbeity.comwww.creativeinsights.studiowww.kulturrummet.org Helsingborg, Sweden T/ +46 70 147 00 91