2019 Winners & Shortlists

Cultural/Context information for the jury.

For the past 3 years, Lebanon has been crippled by a major garbage crisis. To make matters worse, the Lebanese Government has deliberately kept the people of Lebanon in the dark, with its intentions to build harmful incinerators, which would further affect the environment, increase pollution drastically and put the lives and wellbeing of the Lebanese people at risk. We needed to take action and make this invisible danger visible to the people of Lebanon.

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At the sight of one of Beirut’s key entry points and the future location of a planned waste incinerator, we built a 12+ meter flagpole that delivered a massive flag made of non-toxic smoke. The flag, made of black smoke, was engineered in a way that anyone who could see the flag would know that they would fall into the “danger zone” if the incinerators that were planned.