Our projects
One house, and the beginning of a network.
Beit Hayat in Old Damascus is the first. Future cultural houses are being explored across the country, in Maaloula, Sweida, Salamieh, Latakia, Aleppo, Idlib, Deir Ezzor and Qamishli: a network as varied as Syria itself.
The network of cultural houses
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Damascus · the first house
Old Damascus
An abandoned Damascene house becoming a living cultural house for art, heritage and collective memory.
Beit Hayat · coming soon
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The Qalamoun mountains
Maaloula
A village cut into a mountain gorge, keeping one of the world’s oldest living languages.
Being explored
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The south
Sweida
Black basalt villages and vineyards on the slopes of Jabal al-Arab.
Being explored
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The centre
Salamieh
A town with a distinctive tradition of open civic and cultural life.
Being explored
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The coast
Latakia
A port city between the Mediterranean and the mountains.
Being explored
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The north
Aleppo
One of the oldest cities in the world, its souks gathered under the citadel.
Being explored
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The north-west
Idlib
Olive country, and the stone villages of the Dead Cities.
Being explored
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The east
Deir Ezzor
Where the Euphrates crosses the eastern desert.
Being explored
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The Jazira
Qamishli
A border town on the Jazira plain, close to the ancient mounds above the Khabur river.
Being explored
Where the work is happening
Each project keeps one page for its whole life.
As it moves from announcement to active work to completion, the page grows with it: the same address, a fuller story each time.
Coming soon
Beit Hayat
An abandoned Damascene house restored into a Living Cultural House for art, heritage and collective memory.