The Free Parti movement was created out of my own discontent towards everyday life in my hometown of Beirut, Lebanon. This project started out as a personal statement of my disenfranchised and numb feelings concerning the socio-political climate of my country. As the continuous issues pile
on in Beirut, from the recurring bombings to the political instability and everything
in between, myself and others stopped caring about what was happening around us and tried to escape our stress. The nightlife and rave scene became a safe place where people could form a community and create their own utopic Beirut. What started out as an attempt to create a utopic Beirut as a communication design project revealed itself to be much deeper. I realized that I had the responsibility to transform the rave community into a critically and politically engaged group in society. With this project, I’d like to give a new form of what a society is, a new sense of allegiance by transforming the rave scene of Beirut into it’s own political party. Creating something that exists on the boundary between fact and fiction, really pushing the idea of creating something that exists already and shaping it into something more surreal, more established, with a strange sense of identity, where it feels almost uncomfortable. This whole project uses deception, communication and design tactics to dilute and simplify politics. This hopefully opens up a debate; there is an active understanding now, instead of just passive consumption.