Studio 08

there is space for you right here

Marijke Davey

Studio Description

Like sorting stones, stones that hold pieces of heart, a heart that has turned to pieces, scattered over a landscape, a home, a kitchen table, sorted through, a meditation, a time spent, which is the piece I gave to you ?

We are all a collection of the things we have seen, read, discussed, and loved. Over time we start to notice patterns, ideas we return to, a perfect image, a beautiful book, something our mother said, the first painting, the song, each piece forming us, expanding us, reassuring us. What have we become ?

Studio Outcome

There is space for you right here returns to beautiful Palestine. Looking under all stones, we will explore Palestine through the eyes and words of others. How do you listen to a place from afar? What do you pay attention to when there is so much to read, listen, watch and learn? We will explore together.

There is space for you right here will bring into the studio a collection of guests that will share with you first hand accounts of life in Palestine. The studio will expand through discussion. You will learn to listen, to ask questions, to explore and challenge your initial ideas. Throughout the semester, you will develop your own brief, you will make many maps, you will write, you will draw faces, you will have many questions, you will want to talk about Palestine to anyone who will give you a moment to speak.

This is just the beginning.

a beautiful photo, returned to: Luca Capuano with Carlo Favero

Studio Leader

marijke is an architect.

she cares about public space, pigeons, and Palestine.

Readings & References

• Berger, J. (2009). About looking. London: Bloomsbury.
• Byrne, G. (2016). Borders, barriers, walls. Place of publication not identified: Monash University Museum.
• Chomsky, N., PappeÌ, I., & Barat, F. (2015). On Palestine. London: Penguin Books.
• Danahar, P. (2015). The new Middle East: The world after the Arab Spring. London: Bloomsbury.
• Dufour, D., & Delage, C. (2015). Images of conviction: The construction of visual evidence. Paris: Le Bal.
• Ehrenreich, B. (2017). The way to the spring: Life and death in Palestine. London: Granta.
• Hammond, M. (2014). Arabic poems: A bilingual edition. London: Alfred A. Knopf.
• Hinkinson. J. et al. (2017). Security, Terror, Panic. ARENA journal, Number Forty-Seven/Forty-Eight, North Carlton: Arena Publications.
• King, R. (2014). Democratic desert: The war in Syria. Amsterdam: Schilt Publishing.
• Lahoud, A. (2010). Post-Traumatic Urbanism. Architectural Design, 80(5), 14-23. doi:10.1002/ad.1128
• Littell, J. (2016). Syrian notebooks: Inside the homs uprising. Brooklyn, NY: Verso.
• Malek, C., Hoke, M., & Carp, A. (2014). Palestine speaks: Narratives of life under occupation. San Francisco: McSweeney's Books. Pinchbeck, C. (2016). When silence falls. Sydney, N.S.W.: Art Gallery of New South Wales.
• Sahner, C. C. (2016).
• Shehadeh, R. (2018). WHERE THE LINE IS DRAWN: Crossing boundaries in occupied Palestine. S.l.: Profile Books.
• Silva, C., Drake, D., Jarvis, R., Smalley, U., & Williams, V. (2016). Garden state: The politics of planting in Israel/Palestine. Cardiff: Ffotogallery Wales Limited and The Mosaic Rooms, A.M. Qattan Foundation.
• Statement of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, at the opening of Trial in the case against Mr Ahmad Al-Faqi Al Mahdi. (2016, August 22). Retrieved November 10, 2017, from https://www.icc-cpi.int/Pages/item.aspx?name=otp-stat-al-mahdi-160822
• Tamdgidi, M. H., (2009). "If I touch the depths of your heart … ": The Human Promise of Poetry in Memories of Mahmoud Darwish, Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, Volume 7, Issue 5. Belmont. MA: Okcir Press. Available at: http://scholarworks.umb.edu/humanarchitecture/vol7/iss5
• Vet, A. D. (2007). Subjective atlas of Palestine. Rotterdam: 010 Publ.
• Virilio, P., & Polizzotti, M. (2006). Speed and politics: An essay on dromology. Los Angeles, CA: Semiotext(e).
• Weizman, E. (2012). Forensic architecture: Notes from fields and forums. Forensische Architektur: Notizen von Feldern und Foren. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz.
• Weizman, E. (2017). Forensic Architecture: Violence at the threshold of detectability. Brooklyn, NY: Zone Books.
• Weizman, E. (2017). Hollow Land. S.l.: Verso Books.
• Weizman, E., Tavares, P., Schuppli, S., & Studio, S. (2010). Forensic Architecture. Architectural Design, 80(5), 58-63. doi:10.1002/ad.1134

These will be provided to you in the Studio Library

Schedule 15:15-18:15 Mondays and Thursdays

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