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Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory | FAST

  • The Foundation
  • About us
  • Publications and Press
  • Exhibitions
  • Lectures and Public Events
  • Teaching
  • Network and Contributors
  • Awards and Grants
  • Projects
    • Agdam – Barda: Along the borders of Azerbaijan and Armenia
      • Barda’s Temporary Homes and the Politics of Displacement
      • Extreme Make-over in the South Caucasus: The Reconstruction of Post-Soviet Karabakh
    • Amsterdam North Infographic
    • Amsterdam West
    • Archive of Displacement
    • Atlas of the Conflict, Israel – Palestine
    • Border Ecologies Exhibition at The Harvard Graduate School of Design
    • BLUE: The Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions (book)
      • Hotel Africa and the Crumbling of Modernity: Dom-Ino House, a UN Base, and an Irish Bar
    • BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions at the Dutch Pavilion
      • BLUE Accounts
      • Design for Legacy
      • BLUE Publication
      • BLUE in the Press
    • BLUE: Design for Legacy
      • Design for Legacy: 2017 Future Force Conference
      • Greening Peacekeeping: The Environmental Impact of UN Peace Operations (Policy paper)
      • UN Peacekeeping Missions in Urban Environments
    • Desert Futures: Scenarios for Decolonization
    • Drones and Honeycombs
      • Drones
      • Compounds
      • Missions
      • Retreat
    • George Orwell Drives on Highway 6
    • Ghost Town
    • Golden Heart Pavilion: First community building for Ein Hawd
    • Green Zone Red Zone
    • Hotel Abkhazia
    • Love in a Mist: The Politics of Fertility
    • New Map of Tbilisi
    • ^Occupied
    • Object, Tbilisi
    • One Land and Platform Paradise
    • One Land Two Systems Publication
    • Oxidized city: Trip to Rustavi, Georgia
    • The First Top-Down Palestinian City
    • Reconstruction of Memory
      • Lifta after zionist planning
      • Conference: Reconstruction of Memory
      • Report: Reconstruction of Memory
      • Interview with Yakoub Odeh: Memories and Hope to Return
      • Interview with Khaldun Bshara: Preservation Under Occupation
      • Interview with Andrew Herscher: Violence, Destruction and International Law
      • Politics of Cultural Heritage: Mapping the Distribution of UNESCO Sites Across the World
    • Territoria
    • UNMANNED: Architecture and Security Series (Books)
      • Drone
      • Retreat
    • Village: One Land Two Systems
      • No One Asked Me to Come
      • Ghost Town
    • Where is Israel?
    • Zoo, or the letter Z, just after Zionism

The Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory is an architectural think-tank that operates at the intersection of architecture, urban planning, public art, and human rights, with a focus on design activism. FAST's goal is to expose systemic violence and improve the quality of the built environment and people's livelihoods.

Our projects span across various disciplines and scales and include the award-winning book Atlas of the Conflict: Israel-Palestine (010, 2011), Village. One Land Two Systems and Platform Paradise, and the long-term collaborative research initiative BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions and Design for Legacy, which shed light on the impact of UN peace missions on cities and communities.

In 2021, FAST won the Silver Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale for their collaborative work: Border Ecologies and the Gaza Strip. Watermelon, Sardines, Crabs, Sand, and Sediment.

FAST is led by Malkit Shoshan.

Contact: info[at]seamlessterritory.org

  • The Foundation
  • About us
  • Publications and Press
  • Exhibitions
  • Lectures and Public Events
  • Teaching
  • Network and Contributors
  • Awards and Grants
  • Projects
    • Agdam – Barda: Along the borders of Azerbaijan and Armenia
      • Barda’s Temporary Homes and the Politics of Displacement
      • Extreme Make-over in the South Caucasus: The Reconstruction of Post-Soviet Karabakh
    • Amsterdam North Infographic
    • Amsterdam West
    • Archive of Displacement
    • Atlas of the Conflict, Israel – Palestine
    • Border Ecologies Exhibition at The Harvard Graduate School of Design
    • BLUE: The Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions (book)
      • Hotel Africa and the Crumbling of Modernity: Dom-Ino House, a UN Base, and an Irish Bar
    • BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions at the Dutch Pavilion
      • BLUE Accounts
      • Design for Legacy
      • BLUE Publication
      • BLUE in the Press
    • BLUE: Design for Legacy
      • Design for Legacy: 2017 Future Force Conference
      • Greening Peacekeeping: The Environmental Impact of UN Peace Operations (Policy paper)
      • UN Peacekeeping Missions in Urban Environments
    • Desert Futures: Scenarios for Decolonization
    • Drones and Honeycombs
      • Drones
      • Compounds
      • Missions
      • Retreat
    • George Orwell Drives on Highway 6
    • Ghost Town
    • Golden Heart Pavilion: First community building for Ein Hawd
    • Green Zone Red Zone
    • Hotel Abkhazia
    • Love in a Mist: The Politics of Fertility
    • New Map of Tbilisi
    • ^Occupied
    • Object, Tbilisi
    • One Land and Platform Paradise
    • One Land Two Systems Publication
    • Oxidized city: Trip to Rustavi, Georgia
    • The First Top-Down Palestinian City
    • Reconstruction of Memory
      • Lifta after zionist planning
      • Conference: Reconstruction of Memory
      • Report: Reconstruction of Memory
      • Interview with Yakoub Odeh: Memories and Hope to Return
      • Interview with Khaldun Bshara: Preservation Under Occupation
      • Interview with Andrew Herscher: Violence, Destruction and International Law
      • Politics of Cultural Heritage: Mapping the Distribution of UNESCO Sites Across the World
    • Territoria
    • UNMANNED: Architecture and Security Series (Books)
      • Drone
      • Retreat
    • Village: One Land Two Systems
      • No One Asked Me to Come
      • Ghost Town
    • Where is Israel?
    • Zoo, or the letter Z, just after Zionism

The Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory is an architectural think-tank that operates at the intersection of architecture, urban planning, public art, and human rights, with a focus on design activism. FAST's goal is to expose systemic violence and improve the quality of the built environment and people's livelihoods.

Our projects span across various disciplines and scales and include the award-winning book Atlas of the Conflict: Israel-Palestine (010, 2011), Village. One Land Two Systems and Platform Paradise, and the long-term collaborative research initiative BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions and Design for Legacy, which shed light on the impact of UN peace missions on cities and communities.

In 2021, FAST won the Silver Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale for their collaborative work: Border Ecologies and the Gaza Strip. Watermelon, Sardines, Crabs, Sand, and Sediment.

FAST is led by Malkit Shoshan.

Contact: info[at]seamlessterritory.org

Read the essay “SPACES OF HOPE IN UNCERTAIN TIMES” by Malkit Shoshan in Harvard Design Magazine, Issue Number 51: Multihyphenate, Fall/Winter 2023

We are thrilled to announce that the Netherlands Creative Industries Fund has awarded us a grant to transform our Silver Lion-winning exhibition, “Border Ecologies and the Gaza Strip,” into a book

Read Arjen Oosterman and Timothy Moore interview with Malkit Shoshan in Volume #62. Track Changes: “The Architect, Small Change, Big Result,” edited by Stephan Petermann

"Forms of Assembly: All Things Considered" exhibition at Harvard GSD

Read the publication “Forms of Assembly: All Things Considered”

View online our publication “Desert Futures: Scenarios for a World of Extremes”

Read the essay: “Perspectives on Survival: Nuclear risks, design and public action. A semester-long investigation on the agency of architecture in relation to nuclear power, energy and space” by Malkit Shoshan and Gizem Sucuoglu. Published by KoozArch

[NL] Read the book review “BLUE – een ongevraagd advies om de architectuur van vredesmissies te verbeteren” by Peter Olsthoorn for Archined

Join our book launch, BLUE: The Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions, at Het Nieuwe Instituut on March 16, 2023

Book review: Blue. A Peacemaking Operation by Gili Merin for KoozArch

Join the Design Activism: Border Ecologies and the Architecture of UN Missions lecture hosted by the MIT Architecture Spring 2023 Public Program

ARCHITECTURE + ABORTION. The online list is compiled by current Womxn in Design and Architecture (WDA) students at Princeton University School of Architecture

“Ruptured Landscapes” lecture series and installation by Aristide Antonas for the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Visit FAST’s online presentation of our ongoing research, series of essays, teaching projects, and exhibition: “Desert Futures: Scenarios for Decolonization”

Fundamental Security and Mutual Care event at Forum Stadtpark with Andrew Herscher and Malkit Shoshan

“Peace is Hard Work on the Ground”: An Excerpt from “BLUE: The Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions” by Malkit Shoshan with introduction by Ole Bouman, a contribution for the Harvard Design Magazine “50: Today’s Global”, edited by Sarah M. Whiting and Rahul Mehrotra

“Desert Futures: Scenarios for Decolonization” at the International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam (IABR, 2022)

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