Projects

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Projects (selection)

Territoria
(2002) A research and a publication, exhibited at the 2002 Venice Architecture Biennial.
The Atlas of the Conflict Israel-Palestine
(2002-2010) A research and a publication, soon to be out by 010 publishers.

BORDERS
(2002-2010) The South Caucasus and The Middle East .
An ongoing study, on the relations between Nation building, borders, destruction and displacement.

One Land Two Systems and Platform Paradise
(2004-2008) The project includes research, architecture competition, exhibitions (including the Rotterdam and the Venice biennial), publications, workshops, designing a masterplan, alternative tourist map, other design exercises, construction of alternative spaces and lobbying with the local policy-makers.

Designing a refugee camp
(2004) A study and a workshop, in collaboration with Carel weeber and the architecture faculty in Jerusalem.
Archive of displacement
(2004) A research, mapping and documenting through films and interviews, the on going displacement of Bedouins in the south of Israel. Made in collaboration with Alwine van Heemstra.
Highway #6
(2004) A study and an article in collaboration with an Israeli journalist, Ido Amin, on the relations between road #6 and the shape of the separation wall in the West Bank.
Reconstruction of Memory
(2006) An action on the decision to reconstruct the last Palestinian village that remained intact in Israel since 1948.
The project included a global research on the relation between cultural heritage practice and politics.
A symposium, exhibitions (including at the EU parliament building in Brussels and at the Venice art biennial and ‘le muur’ in Paris), a blog and publications.
FAST MAPS UNESCO, MAPS THE MIDDLE EAST, MAPS AFGHANISTAN AND MAPS IRAQ
(2007-8) A mapping study on the relations between design politics and its impact on the surroundings, published in various magazines.
Hotel Abkhazia
(2007-8) A study on the relations between border transformation and displacement, Tbilisi, Georgia. Published in various magazines, exhibited in the Rotterdam Architecture Biennial.
Oxidized City
(2007) A study on the left over of Soviet industrial infrastructure in the post-Soviet countries in its impact on the surroundings.
Green Zone Red Zone
(2008) A study on the impact of emergency regulations, which were created by the Bush administration and adopted by the EU, on the day-to-day life in The Hague, at various alert levels.
An exhibition and a publication.

Nomads in the Netherlands, Amsterdam West
(2007-8) A study on policies of segregation in the Netherlands, focusing on Amsterdam West.

The New Map of Tbilisi
(2006-9) An interlinked study on privatization and displacement in Tbilisi, Georgia.
The development of an online mapping software, a survey, spatial research, series of exhibitions, publication and awareness raising events. The project was exhibited during the 2009 Rotterdam biennial.

FAST is working now on new projects in the Netherlands and in the Balkan.

Exhibitions (selection)
Never on Sunday Tbilisi 2009 - Rotterdam Biennale NAi 2009 - Le Mur Paris 2009 - Venice Biennale Italian Pavilion 2008 - One Land and Paltform Paradise Ein Hawd 2008 - European Parliament Brussels 2008 - Rotterdam Biennale NAi 2007 - Mediamatic Amsterdam 2005 - Venice Biennale Israeli Pavilion 2002

Publications, Researches and Workshops
The list and links will be updated soon.

For information on projects, content and FAST agenda, please contact us at info[at]seamlessterritory.org