Lea KayrouzResearcher-Architectcollaboration since 2017Lea Kayrouz is an architect and researcher at TU Delft's Faculty of Architecture, focusing on ownership patterns and weathering in the Levant. Over the past few years, she has worked at architectural offices in Spain, including Ensamble Studio and RBTA. Lea is a main collaborator on most projects, particularly on research and concept development. Alex Tzortsis de PazArchitectcollaboration since 2018
Alex Tzortsis de Paz is a London-based architectural designer who has worked at firms including Purcell Architects and Foster + Partners after graduating. Since 2018, he has also been a lecturer at Leeds School of Architecture and Middlesex University, focusing on design-led projects. Alex is a key collaborator, visualizing and devising concepts for various projects. Lama ZoueinCreative Directorcollaboration since 2016
Lama Zouein is a creative director and multidisciplinary designer specializing in art direction, branding, and food styling. With over a decade of experience, she has worked across France, Switzerland, Lebanon, London, and Amsterdam, collaborating with Nathalie Harb on visual identity creation and scenographies.
www.zoueinlama.comJoseph KaiIllustrator-Artistcollaboration since 2009
Joseph is a Lebanese comics author currently living in Paris, exploring the realms of realistic and speculative fiction. A member of the Samandal comic collective, he contributes as an editor and comic author. Joseph collaborates on scenography, design projects, and visual identities, with a focus on the intersection of space, illustration, and storytelling. www.josephkai.bigacrtel.com
photo by Stefano MarchioniniGascia OuzounianSonic Theoristcollaboration since 2017
Gascia Ouzounian is a sonic theorist at Oxford University, where she leads Sonorous Cities (SONCITIES). She commissioned Silent Room V.04 for the London Festival of Architecture. Our collaborations include Urban Sound and the Politics of Memory, Designing Sonic Refuge, and Acoustic Cities: London & Beirut. www.soncities.org
photo by Mane HovanissyanZoukak Theatre Companycollaboration since 2009Zoukak was established in 2006 as a horizontal theatre collective committed to artistic practice as a form of social and political engagement. Each performance addresses issues that challenge the status quo, resonating with the context in which it operates and beyond. Zoukak has performed and collaborated both regionally and internationally. Beyond artistic production, they integrate theatre into broader frameworks of social engagement, therapy, and education. The collective also fosters artistic dialogue and reflection, aiming to cultivate a supportive environment for artistic development and provide training opportunities for local artists in Lebanon and overseas. I collaborate with Zoukak as a scenographer, while they contribute to my work through text writing and dramaturgy. Together, we thread a conversation where our research intersects
in the narrative potential of spaces, both on stage and behind the scenes.
www.zoukak.orgGerard GormleyMusiciancollaboration since 2024
Gerard Gormley is an Irish composer and sound artist exploring sound in relation to space, place, and architecture. Our collaborations include Silent Room V.04, a nomadic sonic architecture engaging cities through sound and listening, featured at the London Festival of Architecture. Youmna SabaMusiciancollaboration since 2022
Youmna is a musician, composer, and musicologist, with a focus on the resonances of instruments and space within different sonic and musical contexts. With five albums to her name (the latest being Wishah, released on Touch in 2023), she has collaborated with musicians like Kamilya Jubran, Mike Cooper, and the Neuen Vocalsolisten. She is the laureate of the first sound residency at the Quai Branly Museum, Paris (2022-2023), and has also been awarded a music residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (2020-2021). Youmna's collaboration explores the microscopic and inaudible in Resonant Shell and later the concept of making the territory archive heard.
www.youmnasaba.comPamela ErbettaArt historian-Consultant-Gardenercollaboration since 2006
Pamela Erbetta is an art historian and artistic consultant based in Palermo, Sicily. With a background in museum installations and auction houses, she co-founded the contemporary art gallery Francesco Pantaleone Arte Contemporanea. She is currently developing a hospitality project centered around the reconstruction of a Mediterranean garden. Pamela was my gallerist and is currently a key collaborator on Silent Room for Agrigento Capitale 2025. Loft - Rosemary, Chantal and Beatrice Harb Fashion and textiles, Mother and sisterhoodcollaboration since 2009
Loft, a family fashion business, was founded by my mother—a space where textiles, threads, and patterns come to life. Since the economic crisis in Beirut, it has shifted to focus on local, sustainable production of womenswear. Now led by my sister Chantal, with Beatrice, costume designer-ceramist and I as satellites in its orbit, Loft continues to grow. Together, we collaborate weaving our shared vision and sense of complicity on matresses, blankets, tents and other fabric work. Adriana CoboArchitect-Researcher-Educatorcollaboration since 2013
Adriana Cobo Corey is an architect, educator and spatial practitioner. She works on architecture for social purpose with projects sited within the urban public realm. Her research practice on performance architecture focuses on the connection between taste and class in architecture and urban design.
She is subject leader for ethical practice in BA Architecture and associate lecturer for the MA Architecture at Central Saint Martins, were
she convenes The Ethical Table, a platform for discussing ethics in creative practice. Adriana has been a consultant, editor and critical reference in a durational conversation since our time as students in the MA Scenography at Central Saint Martin's, UAL.