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Social Entrepreneurship Lab
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Across 4 years, the practice moved from learning programs for structure and system development (2020) to ecosystem centric pedagogy and modern skillset (2023), to a venture-grade incubation model that delivers to creative founders what we kept from our Learning Programs (SEL 25 and onward).
We kept the developed working group philosophies, the studio’s worldview, applied toolkits, deliverable rigor, and dropped what did not scale or could not adapt. This process earned us a maleability, especially when it comes to the ventures intended in volatile places. SEL is the form that emerged when the studio transitioned from capacity building in general into building financially viable ventures with founders.
Ecosystem-centric Design Instead of People Centered One
Run during Lebanon’s compounded economic and political crisis. This program experienced a pedagological pivot. It went from designing for people alone to designing systems for the systems that people live inside: ecology, identity, economy, sociology, place, and culture. Similar to the previous programs, all working groups were involved and had outputs.
4 Months
From the Slogan-Oriented Revolution, to the Practice-based One
Conceived during the October 17 uprisings, the program built Studio Madane’s primary foundational structure which was a volunteer based organization operated through multidisciplinary working groups. The program articulated their missions, roadmaps, collaborators, and announced Madane’s first generation of members and coordinators.
3 Months Each