11.3.24

 קולוקוויום

סמסטר א'

14:00-16:00

מכסיקו 206 א

ד"ר אדר' פאתינה אבריק-זבידאת

ביה"ס לאדריכלות באונ' תל אביב

Architecture of Aid and its Embodiment in the Resettlement of the Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip

The lecture introduces ‘Gaza’ against the making of the ‘Gaza Strip’ as an ahistorical entity, off the record, something present only in scholarship, outside modernity and global experience. It rejects the dehumanization and objectivization of the Gaza Strip by reclaiming its right to spatial and architectural history. Specifically, the lecture sheds light on the Palestinian refugee’s resettlement, through interrogating the foundational ideas of Cold War ‘economic peace’ foisted upon the developing world under the auspices of humanitarianism and its contested encounters with Israel. The resettlement of the refugees was institutionalized under the entanglement of national security and regional peace and their link with a novel vision of economic development particularly in 1979 and 1993. Its spatial and architectural materialization was a product of contested debate of the Israeli scientific and professional circles who upheld different ideologies in the management of the refugee camps driven by the violence of economic development of emplacement and the violence of demographic colonization of the displacement. The aestheticization of these processes ended up in anchoring the refugees in the Gaza Strip through the construction of new homes as part of rehabilitation and modernization projects, influenced by the stratified multiple forms of ‘civic engineering’ of the French architecture of North Africa and Latin America and the ‘military engineering’ of East African colonial architecture

: Short bio

Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat is an Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer) and head of the lab of Spaces-in- Transition at the architecture department, in Tel-Aviv University. Abreek-Zubiedat’s research interest is history, theory and criticism of architecture and urban planning in the Global South. Her research focuses on the spatial politics of development and their cultural and architectural materialization in the refugee camps, environments of poverty and spaces of humanitarianism and aid, and climate upheaval and the related food insecurity. Her forthcoming book Development War: The Right to an Urban History of Gaza, 1948-1993 will be published under the University of Pittsburgh Press (Spring 2025)

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