Decolonizing Architecture

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Conceived within the frame of "Decolonizing Architecture: scenarios for the transformation of Israeli settlements", a project by the London–Bethlehem based architectural studio of Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti and Eyal Weizman.
The research provides several 'strategies of subversion' for Israeli residential settlements in the West Bank and included them in a "Manual of Decolonization": a generic toolbox for post-occupation scenarios.
Rather than a single unified proposal of urban planning covering the entirety of Palestine, the project presents detailed transformations on the architectural scale.
There are hundreds of thousands of Israeli built structures in the West Bank, but because the number of typologies in settlements and military bases are limited – variations on the single-family dwelling in settlements and concrete prefabricated barracks in military bases – these ‘fragments of possibility’ constitute a semi-generic approach that could be modified to be applied in other evacuated areas.
The manual seeks to determine to what extent the evacuated structures are to accommodate new uses and will demonstrate the various ways in which they can be adapted or transformed.
The production of the manual is based upon a series of meetings with the “stakeholders” in this process. Their genuine participation is the crucial factor and the only agency that could guaranty the implementation of the actions outlined in the manual.
The “Manual of Decolonization” is published by Salottobuono, A+M bookstor, Milano 2010.
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Effektiv start/slut dato01/04/2010 → …