TerraPods has four residency units, hosting up to 10 persons at a time. Each room is equipped with a private bathroom and kitchenette.

Contact us to reserve a stay at TerraPods.

“Explore our experimental bio-design makerspace & creative residency. Embracing artists, scientist and the boundless at play under a ray of practice. Observing our paths in performance, installation, and sound of the silence.”

TerraPods offers a space for artists and creators of all disciplines. We host 4 residency units with capacity of up to 10 artists, researchers, scientists, and a multi-disciplinary indoor and outdoor space for:

• Visual arts: including painting with earth pigments from the land, printmaking, photography and film.
• Performance arts: including somatics, dance, performance, theater along with sound & cymatics, culinary art with super clubs and performance.
• Healing arts: including using the space for practices such as meditation, yoga, and other healing modalities.
• Traditional crafts and earthen clay.
• Writing: providing a space for writers to work and create.
• STEM: providing a space for researchers and scientists to work in a natural setting and collaborate with artists.

An annual exhibit at TerraPods will showcase the collective and the EcoSouk will offer the creations for sale in Baskinta, Hamra and online. Additionally, two corner store front windows will feature select artist collections on rotation.

Sign up for the art residency waitlist for more information and dates.

“Nurtured by the sun, rooted in the soil, sustained by the rain. We've sprouted in the serene wilderness of Baskinta, a rural village in Lebanon where bio-design, art, and agroecology co-create in abundant harmony. An invitation to contribute in our journey, transforming our ecology with TerraPods.”

The agroecology farm is 5,000m^2 and growing a bio-diverse food forest, medicine and dye garden with roaming flocks a graze. Tending to beehives, sheep, goats, chickens and ducks. Growing under agroecology principles with free-grazing, no-till, companion planting, cover cropping, mulching, living fences, composting, seed saving, bio-pest management control, soil regeneration and more. We are harvesting water in our natural living pond, suitable for swimming and irrigation, pumped by solar and shared with neighbouring farmers to support in accessing their water without depending on diesel.

Sign up to join upcoming agroecology workshops and trainings.

A bi-weekly basket of garden harvest produce will be available for pick up at TerraPods in Baskinta and at EcoSouk in Hamra. Delivery to your location upon request.

Sign up for our community supported agriculture - harvest basket

“Foraging, preserving and gathering around the flavours of our community kitchen. Nourished with impact, embracing expansion, and the remedy of remembrance.“

The community kitchen serves daily meals at TerraPods and offers culinary workshops. As a co-op kitchen, it is also commercially equipped for catering and mouneh production upon reservation.

Sign up to guest-chef at TerraPods or host a pop-up culinary event.

Sign up to join upcoming culinary workshops and trainings.

"Fostering income generation to grow, shape and sell bio-alternatives at our EcoSouk,a circular-living marketplace re-stocking the shelves of self-sufficiency. Honouring conscious consumption with heirloom seed exchange."

Sign up to stock your items at EcoSouk.

“Harvesting crops surplus, a shell of peels and leaves to design out waste. Dehydrating skins, distillery and fruiting spores beyond our mold. In communion with our plantcestors and the softness of synthetic free. Sculpting reuse schemes, refillables and that yet to be seen.”

TerraPods Makerspace is 40m2 and extends to an outdoor workshop area in the garden.

• Cooking station with sink
• Bio-material design
• Plant pigment and dyes
• Paper craft
• Print making
• Candle making
• Soap making
• Fibre crafts

Sign up to offer a workshop or training.

Sign up to join upcoming makerspace workshops and trainings.

TerraPods Youth Innovation Fellowship aims to empower young people aged 14-25 to take action towards a sustainable future through entrepreneurship and innovation. We believe that the youth have the potential to create positive change in their communities and beyond. With this programme, we hope to provide them with the necessary skills, resources, and support to turn their ideas into reality. At Least 50% of our fellowships are female-led, providing a safe and inclusive space for women and girls to explore our interconnected nature and the force of women to create life, expanding their creativity and developing their ideas. The makerspace encourages designers, artists, scientists, and engineers to create innovative, regenerative, and biologically-inspired works of art, products and systems to address social and environmental challenges. This can open up new career opportunities and contribute to a more creative, diverse and inclusive workforce, while also addressing the gender gap in STEM education and careers.

Our TerraPods Youth Innovation Fellowship includes:

• Phase 1: Access to TerraPods
• Phase 2: Training and Mentorship
• Phase 3: Marketing and promotion

Sign up to join upcoming Youth Innovation Fellowships.

Cigarette Stand-Up Paddle Board.

We created the world's first cigarette filter stand up paddle board for in-sea clean-ups in collaboration with AUB Neighborhood Initiative and Tobacco Free AUB.

It was crafted by self taught shapper Paul Abbas from 12,000 cigarette filters collected in 50 receptacles designed by Adrien Muller during our design competition.

We then partnered with artist Charbel Samuel Aoun in an eco-design course “A Sea of Solutions” to explore design transformation in the social context.

• 1,000,000 cigarette filters collected
• 45 curated artists exhibited
• Film4Climate Award at COP22

Collect Cigarette Filters and drop off at TerraPods.