The Urbigraphs Walk Series seeks to start and develop a conversation on the new concept of Urbigraphy, and ways to approach Literary Studies and Gender & Women Studies less abstractly. During these walks, the focus will not only be on what the public sees but also on sounds, smells, touch, memory and imagination. The objective is to create a unique experience for the public to be able to sense, in movement, the volatility of an urban object like Beirut, and understand how women writers have the extraordinary ability to tell the story of this particular landscape. Moreover, the unique format of the Walk Series encourages a cross-disciplines approach and collaborations between the artists and the audience. 

The primary aim of the Urbigraphs Walk Series is to create a more proactive and sensorial way to explore the intersections between women writers’ poetic experimentation, writing and urban landscape. How women artists and writers can participate in defining a city, in discovering the “soul” of an ever-changing urban object? Through their unique and very personal perspective, the idea is to explore the city, to discover traveled, transgressed, interstitial, symbolic, imagined territories as a ground for new narratives about Beirut. Therefore, one of the most important objectives is to go beyond binary narratives of center and periphery, male and female, east and west, private and public, etc., and renew the perception of the city; most importantly to challenge the usual perceptions on Women Literature in Lebanon.