Designing Within Conflict - Re-Creating Publics in Conflict Cities: Cultural Spaces in Haifa

Tuesday, November 5 - 4:30-5:45pm - Zoom & in person, Harvard
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The lecture series is co-hosted by the Senior Loeb Fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Design; the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative at the Religion and Public Life, Harvard Divinity School; Harvard ArtLab; and the Interdisciplinary Art and Design Practices Seminar of Harvard GSD.

Understanding the evolution of urban narratives of belonging and displacement in contested cities unlocks possibilities for urban peacebuilding. It does this in various ways, most notably perhaps because it re-humanizes communities of people who have been forgotten, deposed, or otherwise made marginal. This project aims to spatially explore the historical evolution of urban cultural public spaces and their narratives in cities in conflict through digital mapping, tocusing on the case of Haita City.

Based on Orwa's extensive research and practice, the lecture examines the largely untold relationship between Palestinians and Jews in Haita, both before and after Israel's establishment in 1948.

While sociological studies have explored Haifa as a mixed city, its cultural and spatial evolution has been overlooked. Although demographic transitions among Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Haifa have been broadly studied, detailed spatial documentation of its urban cultural landscape-encompassing residences, public spaces, cultural sites, religious places, leisure areas, and commercial zones--along with its evolving narratives, remains sparse.

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