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FAST – Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory

  • ◉ Foundation
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  • ◉ Publications
  • ◉ Exhibitions
  • ◉ Events
  • ◉ Teaching
  • ◉ Network
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  • ◉ 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 and the Gaza Strip
    • 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
    • Design Strategies for Climate- and Conflict-Induced Migration
    • 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
    • Spaces of Solidarity
    • Territoria
    • UNMANNED: Architecture and Security Series (Books)
      • Drone
      • Retreat
    • Village: One Land Two Systems
      • No One Asked Me to Come
    • Where is Israel?
    • Zoo, or the letter Z, just after Zionism

FAST is an architectural think tank based in Amsterdam and New York City, working at the intersection of architecture, urban planning, and human rights. Through design activism, exhibitions, publications, public events, and participatory design, FAST exposes systemic violence and develops alternatives, collaborative processes and designs that improve the built environment and the lives of those who inhabit it.

Our work spans a range of disciplines and scales. It includes the award-winning Atlas of the Conflict: Israel–Palestine; Village: One Land Two Systems and Platform Paradise; and BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions, a long-term collaborative research initiative examining the impact of UN peace operations on cities, rural communities, and the environment. This work contributed, among other outcomes, to UN General Assembly resolution on peacekeeping.

In 2021, FAST was awarded the Silver Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale for Border Ecologies and the Gaza Strip: Watermelon, Sardines, Crabs, Sand, and Sediment, the subject of our forthcoming book with MACK.

Contact: info[at]seamlessterritory.org
Instagram: seamless_territory_

  • ◉ Foundation
  • ◉ About
  • ◉ Publications
  • ◉ Exhibitions
  • ◉ Events
  • ◉ Teaching
  • ◉ Network
  • ◉ Awards
  • ◉ 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 and the Gaza Strip
    • 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
    • Design Strategies for Climate- and Conflict-Induced Migration
    • 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
    • Spaces of Solidarity
    • Territoria
    • UNMANNED: Architecture and Security Series (Books)
      • Drone
      • Retreat
    • Village: One Land Two Systems
      • No One Asked Me to Come
    • Where is Israel?
    • Zoo, or the letter Z, just after Zionism

FAST is an architectural think tank based in Amsterdam and New York City, working at the intersection of architecture, urban planning, and human rights. Through design activism, exhibitions, publications, public events, and participatory design, FAST exposes systemic violence and develops alternatives, collaborative processes and designs that improve the built environment and the lives of those who inhabit it.

Our work spans a range of disciplines and scales. It includes the award-winning Atlas of the Conflict: Israel–Palestine; Village: One Land Two Systems and Platform Paradise; and BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions, a long-term collaborative research initiative examining the impact of UN peace operations on cities, rural communities, and the environment. This work contributed, among other outcomes, to UN General Assembly resolution on peacekeeping.

In 2021, FAST was awarded the Silver Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale for Border Ecologies and the Gaza Strip: Watermelon, Sardines, Crabs, Sand, and Sediment, the subject of our forthcoming book with MACK.

Contact: info[at]seamlessterritory.org
Instagram: seamless_territory_

Interview with Andrew Herscher: Violence, Destruction and International Law

Published in Volume n. 11 ‘Cities Unbuilt’ (2006)

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FAST is an architectural think tank based in Amsterdam and New York City, working at the intersection of architecture, urban planning, and human rights. Through design activism, exhibitions, publications, public events, and participatory design, FAST exposes systemic violence and develops alternatives, collaborative processes and designs that improve the built environment and the lives of those who inhabit it.

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