Lecture blurb:
This lecture explores spatial design as a practice of care that shapes relationships, access, and power. Building on the projects and pedagogy of FAST: Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory, it examines the entanglement across scales—from the body and household to the geopolitical system—within dynamic ecologies of social, environmental, and political forces.
Through case studies of projects addressing protracted conflicts, spaces of exceptions, and international interventions, we ask how design can on one hand make systemic violence visible and on the other become a practice of repair and an agent of change. This requires shifting from designing buildings as isolated objects(or from an exclusive point of view) to designing them within frameworks of care, working within complex, and at times, extreme entangled realities. It is a practice that embodies care in its outcomes and in its process, and it uses creativity and participation to co-develop spatial visions that empower the public imagination, showing what else is possible.
In this context, we must speak, with care, also about what is going on in Gaza and the West Bank, where daily systemic violence and spatial and territorial manipulations tear communities apart and make life impossible by design. These realities are lived ecologies of control, fragmentation, and resistance, each entangled with the other and with spatial design itself.
Selection of slides:
Wednesday | May 6, 2026 | 18:30
The School of Architecture, Auditorium
1 Bezalel st., Jerusalem
