Architecture, urbanism and technologies in the conflict Palestine/Israel - I need your suggestions
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At the end of next week, i'm going to be at the University of Architecture in Alicante for a workshop headed by Jose Perez de Lama and Pablo de Soto from hackitectura. I'm particularly glad to be working with them as i've been admiring their work for a few years now (cf. one of their previous works, Situation Room.)
The title of the workshop is Gaza (Palestine). Architecture, urbanism and technologies in the conflict Palestine/Israel. The objective of this (complex and how so delicate) event is to study the conflict and the role architecture and urbanism have in its development, but also to explore how a kind of laboratory of contemporary urbanism has emerged from the situation: gated communities, social controls, isolated islands, connections and disconnections, exclusion, alienations, etc. Pablo has spent the past few weeks in Egypt where he is creating an alternative cartography of the frontier between Egypt and Gaza, more precisely in Rafah. We are collecting videos, information, links, online essays, artistic experiences, etc. Anything that could help us get a better picture of the issue and trigger ideas in the brain of the smart little students who would have to come up with proposals that foster and allow dialog, resistance, peace, human rights, communication, freedom, mutual understanding, international help, etc. That's where i'm asking you if you have any suggestion of information we could use. You could either add them to my del.icio.us links by tagging the links with for:regine, add comments on this post or write me to the usual address (see second column on the homepage). I'm going to document all our findings as well as the development of the workshop on a separate blog. Will update this post with a link to it next week. |
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Hi Regine,
I found this project you're working really interesting! I saw the Map in Rafah and is amazing the way your documenting all the conflict.
I found this Video Footage from War on Gaza and thought that this videos could be of your interest:
http://cc.aljazeera.net/
Best, Ethel
Hi Ethel,
thanks for your interest and comment. this is most appreciated. strangely, i'm receiving many emails about this post. i'm extremely grateful to everyone but i wonder why people have stopped sharing their thoughts and ideas via a blog comment and chose to write me a personal email instead
Hi Regine,
It isn't related to Gaza yet but i've built this site: www.buythewall.com
Also, i am reminded of a story told by a former teacher. An old and well-to-do Palestinian from Bethlehem told him that "the people who really run the world are the arms manufacturers and the building contractors.
They both make a lot of money and they need each-other. This is how the world turns."
Best of luck with your project,
yoav.
Hello,
Please see my work "mosques in Tel Aviv"
This title in "scribed" point to the same work but with some text about.
I cannot write in here the url, i'm rejected
in scribed also other works concern jaffa
if u have questions please contact me.
Ora
Hi Regine
I make a little urban intervention, can you see in http://www.fotolog.com/croquetas/58368988
The complette serie of picture are in my facebook.
very luck
There's also a push to make a free and open map of the area with the OpenStreetMap project
http://brainoff.com/weblog/2009/01/05/1385
http://brainoff.com/weblog/2009/01/07/1387
http://brainoff.com/weblog/2009/01/09/1388
Including a good discussion for those that may be against creation of such a map.
http://brainoff.com/weblog/2009/01/12/1389
hi,
after sharing these links via email, lets post them here as well here; some of the
involvement/observations of http://movingcities.org in the field or architecture, urbanism and occupation;
Decolonizing Architecture - An interview with Alessandro Petti and Sandi Hilal (March 2008)
http://movingcities.org/interviews/decolonizing-architecture/
MovingCities @ Bethelem (March 2008), snapshots and observations
http://movingcities.org/tag/bethlehem/
F.A.S.T. (essay & collaboration)(2005)
http://movingcities.org/bertdemuynck/fast/
for extensive research on this topic in relation to Web politics, please take a look at http://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/CyberLands,
regards,
tjerk timan
The topic made me interested as well.
I personally found many documental videos and other information here: http://www.picktorrent.com
From here you can also download numerous books on art & technologies, architecture. So I hope it might be useful for the workshop.