The Jewish Israeli settlement of Har Homa, East Jerusalem
Fotoğraf: Bas Princen
Almost eight decades of violent urban conflict have transformed Jerusalem into an extreme spatial configuration. From a Western perspective, Jerusalem is often regarded as unique: a place where colonial and terrorist violence blur distinctions between the military and the civilian. But as cities worldwide are increasingly subject to dramatic new security policies and preventative measures against real or imagined threats Jerusalem, as a laboratory of conflict urbanism is in fact closer than we think.
City of Collision presents a vivid picture of a city in a permanent state of destruction and reinvention, hostage to political planning, collective fear and physical and mental walls but also strategies of resilience, individual exchange and transgression. Thirty new essays by leading Palestinian, Israeli, and international architects, artists, sociologists and political commentators open up different perspectives on the complex and ambivalent urban reality of contemporary Jerusalem.
Contributors include Meron Benvenisti, Sylvaine Bulle, Zvi Efrat, Orhan Esen, Michael Fischer, Stephen Graham, Derek Gregory, Rema Hammami, Sari Hanafi, Rassem Khamaisi, Nathan Marom, Rami Nasrallah, Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Jack Persekian, Irit Rogoff, Sharon Rotbard, Salim Tamari, Eyal Weizman and Oren Yftachel. City of Collision lso features specially commissioned photographs by Bas Princen and Polly Braden and is illustrated with over forty new detailed thematic maps.Edited by Philipp Misselwitz and Tim Rieniets Birkhäuser Publisher for Architecture.
Book Presentation, Lectures, Panel Discussion on City of Collision
28 March 2007 18:00 - 20:00
Book Presentation: 18:00
Philipp Misselwitz and Tim Rieniets: The book City of Collision presents a vivid picture of a city in a permanent
state of destruction and reinvention, hostage to political planning, collective fear and physical and mental walls but
also strategies of resilience, individual exchange and transgression. Thirty new essays by leading Palestinian,
Israeli, and international architects, artists, sociologists and political commentators open up different perspectives
on the complex and ambivalent urban reality of contemporary Jerusalem.
Lectures: 18:20 - 19:00
Philippe Rekascewicz (Cartographer, LeMond Diplomatique, Paris)
Reinier de Graaf (Architect, OMA/AMO, Rotterdam)
Panel discussion: 19:00 - 20:00
Design and Power – the political meaning of everyday design practice
With their designs architects and urban planners are conceiving models for the appropriation, exploitation and
perception of space. This involves the negotiation between different and often conflicting claims and interests.
Architects and urban planners are therefore, consciously or unconsciously always acting politically. They are
empowered with expertise and burdened with responsibility to use it within an ethical framework. What if they lend
their name to projects that are in fact controlled by other forces? What if the client's wishes contradict their own
ethical responsibility towards the greater public interest? And what if, the interests of different "publics" collide as
in divided cities such as Jerusalem?
Guests
Kees Christiaanse (Architect and urban planner, Rotterdam/Zurich)
Philippe Rekascewicz (Cartographer, LeMond Diplomatique, Paris)
Reinier de Graaf (Architect, OMA/AMO, Rotterdam)
Jesko Fezer (Architect and writer, Berlin)
Moderators: Tim Rieniets and Philipp Misselwitz
Konuyla İlgili Linkler