Doreen Toutikian

Doreen is a designer who likes to make culturally viable products. She is a cultural entrepreneur, a communications expert, and a university lecturer on design theory and research. In the past 10 years she has founded the Beirut Design Week annual festival, the MENA Design Research Center, and a non-profit cultural organization LOOP/Listen Observe Organize Prototype/. As an avid reader on feminist theory and a believer in human-centered design, founding omgyno was a natural progression in her career path. She speaks six languages (English, Arabic, French, German, Greek and Armenian) and lives in between Beirut and Athens with her partner.