Please join us online for the next guest lecture of the Fall 2020 semester.
Malkit Shoshan examines stories, histories, and findings related to the origin and evolution of United Nations missions in her lecture entitled: Notes on the beginning of missions - Spatial tools, technology, and geography. Shoshan discusses the various spatial tools and architectural technologies that made them possible, such as tents, containers, and modular structures. These narratives are part of the long-term research "BLUE: The Architecture of UN Missions" by Malkit Shoshan situated at the intersection of spatial analysis, design, and human rights, and a preview of her the upcoming book of the same title (Actar, 2020).
Malkit Shoshan is the founding director of the architectural think-tank FAST: Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory. FAST uses research, advocacy, and design to investigate the relationships between architecture, urban planning, and human rights. Shoshan has published extensively, and she is the author and the mapmaker of the award-winning book "Atlas of Conflict: Israel-Palestine" (Uitgeverij 010, 2010), the co-author of the book "Village. One Land Two Systems and Platform Paradise" (Damiani Editore, 2014). In 2016, Shoshan was the curator of the Dutch Pavilion for The Venice Architecture Biennale with the exhibition "BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions," which is the subject of the book "BLUE: Peacekeeping Architecture" (Actar, 2019). Shoshan is currently Area Head of the Art, Design, and the Public Domain Master in Design Studies at Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and a visiting scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU. Since 2016, she taught the courses "Architecture of Peace," "Spaces of Solidarity", "Exhibit: Designing for Decentralization," and "Forms of Assembly" at the Harvard GSD. Her research and design work has been published in newspapers and journals including the New York Times, The Guardian, NRC, Haaretz, Volume, Surface, Frame, Metropolis, and exhibited in venues including the UN Headquarter in NYC (2016), Venice Architecture Biennale (2002, 2008, 2016), Experimenta (2011), Het Nieuwe Instituut (2014), The Istanbul Design Biennale (2014), The Israel Digital Art Center (2012), and The Netherlands Architecture Institute (2007). Shoshan studied architecture at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and the IUAV – the University of Venice.
Free and open to the public. To register and receive call-in details, please send an email to:
Paul-Antoine.Yves.Marie.Lucas@aho.no