"I have always been interested in futures—not one future but a series of possible futures. Maybe it’s because I would sometimes rather ask questions than answer them. Born and raised in Lebanon, I have long understood that change requires work on multiple fronts that go far beyond the fulfillment of material needs. I ask myself: How can design move beyond an acceptance of tragedy to create speculative futures? How can we imagine a progressive future for Beirut, a city fractured by trauma and war? My project, titled What could be, is not meant to exist as a design proposal but rather emerged from asking questions, answering them, or not answering them at all. The result is a short movie, narrated by multiple voices that reveal what a set of collective futures could be, representing what is there, what remains, and what might fade away and beautiful probable or improbable futures."

The project has been developed within the context of the MFA Interior Design program at Parsons School of Design.