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Sunday, 27 April 2008 |
Tuesday 29th April, 8pm
Lecture: Decolonizing architecture,
by Alessandro Petti
Reorienting Israel’s Architecture of
Occupation
Whatever trajectory the conflict over Palestine takes, the
possibility of further part- or
full- evacuation of Israeli colonies and
military bases must be considered. In this
process, the colonies, military
bases and their infrastructure, would be transferred to
Palestinian control,
their buildings destroyed or intact.
This project attempts to suggest
ways of dealing with the architecture of
Israel’s occupation at the moment
this architecture is unplugged from the
military/political power that charged
it.
"We propose to return to the category of “decolonization” and shift away from
the existing political terms of “solutions” to the conflict over Palestine and
their respective boundaries. The one-, two- and now threestate solutions seems
to us equally trapped within their self-referential logic, fraught with top down
perspective that avoids the essential struggle for justice and equality. The
struggle for decolonization implies the dismantling of the existing structures
of domination – financial, military and juridical – conceived for the benefit of
a single ethno-national group. Decolonization does not necessarily imply forced
population transfer and partitions – which are the symptom of national struggle
rather than a colonial one.
Under the terms of decolonization, for one
example, Jewish communities could go on living in Palestinian areas within a
single equal system."
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