Not Collateral Damage

A Visual Record of South Lebanon’s Ecology, or, Mapping the Species of a Wounded Land

This collaborative project by illustrator Aude Abou Nasr and researcher Sarah Sinno builds on a map originally created by Aude for Sarah’s article, featured in The Land Remembers at the 2025 Venice Biennale, curated by the Collective for Architecture Lebanon.

Wars are typically measured in human casualties, economic losses, and the destruction of infrastructure or cultural heritage. But what happens to the land remains an afterthought, if considered at all. Entire ecosystems are disrupted by war, yet much of this loss is routinely ignored or dismissed as collateral damage.