What role can the arts play in the rebuilding of communities traumatized by war? I invited my colleague Cindy Cohen, who heads the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life, and her students in the undergraduate minor Creativity, the Arts & Social Transformation to explore through a Design Lab. We invited experts in public policy, arts and peace building, and architecture to introduced important context that informed our thinking. Over the course of three days we workshopped questions and created a proposal supported by theories in creative peace building and culture as a human right. Read more about the Lab here. Participants included Robert Templer and Al Hakam Shaar from The Aleppo Project, Hungary, Eylem Erturk from Andokultur, Turkey, Rim Lababidi from Syria, and Jane Wilbur Sapp, from United States.
Aleppo Design Lab
