Fellow Malkit Shoshan
Malkit Shoshan studied architecture and urban planning at the IUAV (Venice, Italy) and at the Technion (Haifa, Israel). She is the founder of the Amsterdam based architectural think-tank FAST, the Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory. Her work explores and highlights the relations between architecture, politics and human rights. She is the author of the award-winning book Atlas of the Conflict, Israel-Palestine (2010), and of Village (2014). In the past year, as a research-fellow at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, she developed the long-term research ‘Drones and Honeycombs’, a study of the contemporary architecture and landscape of war and peace. It included the intervention ’Design for Legacy’; the seminars ‘Drone Salon’ and ‘Missions and Missionaries’, and the installations ‘2014-1914: The view from above’. She is a member of the editorial board of Footprint, the TU Delft Architecture Theory Journal.
Her work has been published in books, magazines, and newspapers such as SQM:The Quantified Home, Volume, Abitare, Frame, Monu, Haaretz and NY Times; and exhibited in venues such as The Venice Architecture Biennale (2002, 2008), The Venice Art Biennale (2007), The Netherlands Architecture Institute (2007), Experimenta (2011), NAiM/Bureau Europa (2012) and Het Nieuwe Instituut (2014). http://seamlessterritory.org/in-the-name-of-peace-another-civic-an-other-law/.
