In collaboration with the University College of London, The Bartlett's DPU Summer Lab
Aug. 29 - sep. 05
mon. Aug 29-thu.
sep. 05
The international summer program Learning from Jerusalem / Al-Quds offers a critical framework of urban analysis, research and design focused on the built environment of the city. It aims to highlight the complexity of urban conflicts in Jerusalem not solely as a unique case, but rather as an arena that could be used for understanding urban conflicts elsewhere and possible agendas for their resolution. The summer program consists of an intensive urban design lab that includes guest lectures by scholars, practitioners and activists, workshops and virtual tours. It advances a series of inter-disciplinary and multi-scalar investigations into the processes and practices, formal and informal, which shape places, politics and everyday life in the city. In particular, we explore the opportunities of an urban project of the city, engaging with its infrastructures, ecological systems, resources and architectures, in the context of its various histories of colonization and governance.
The program is intended for individuals who have completed an undergraduate program, and for students in their senior year of a five-year BARCH, in the fields of architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture and urban design as well as in the social sciences and urban and political geography, seeking a cutting-edge inter-disciplinary program.
The program will examine a series of edge conditions and spaces of conflict and negotiation situated in proximity to the historical city centre. Projects will map the current urban challenges while accounting for various conditions (formal, programmatic, infrastructural, environmental and socio-ethnic) and will support this examination with the analysis of precedents and of urban design discourse on cities in conflict. The program will serve thus as a laboratory for the development of complex, more inclusive and open-ended urban scenarios and planning mechanisms for the city and its multiple publics.
The program will take place on Zoom from Sunday, August 29th to Sunday, September 5th, from 15:00PM to 20:00PM (IST). No classes will be held on Friday and Saturday, September 3rd and 4th.
The summer program is a module within Bezalel's Masters in Urban Design, headed by Prof. Els Verbakel.
Fees:
350 EUR by June 15
450 EUR from June 16 to July 15
Fringe Conditions as Sites of Contested Concerns
The program will examine a series of edge conditions and spaces of conflict and negotiation situated in proximity to the historical city centre. Projects will map the current urban challenges while accounting for various conditions (formal, programmatic, infrastructural, environmental and socio-ethnic) and will support this examination with the analysis of precedents and of urban design discourse on cities in conflict. The program will serve thus as a laboratory for the development of complex, more inclusive and open-ended urban scenarios and planning mechanisms for the city and its multiple publics.
The summer program is a module within Bezalel's Masters in Urban Design, headed by Prof. Els Verbakel. The program’s virtual classes, workshops and tours will take place on Zoom from Sunday, August 29th to Sunday, September 5th, from 15:00PM to 20:00PM (IST). No classes will be held on Friday and Saturday, September 3rd and 4th.
Fees:350 EUR by June 15450 EUR from June 16 to July 15
Jerusalem — Urban-Political Lexicon
The seminar will analyse and engage in theoretical and empirical research on urban domination and resistance, and shared living in Jerusalem. Through a series of guest lectures by leading local and international scholars, study of contemporary critical urban scholarship on the city, and writing workshops, the seminar will advance the creation of a critical urban-political lexicon, aimed at investigating Jerusalem’s unique conditions while contributing to current global urban theory and practice.
Learning from Jerusalem: The urban design of a (unique?) city
How is a city designed by its society? What does the shape of a city reveal about space and urban community? How does the urban landscape transmit hidden meanings, and what happens when society itself changes, and with it, its goals and means of design? Relying on maps, urban plans and excursions, as well as on such universal concepts as holiness, urban heritage, social exclusion and gender on the other, we will explore the making of Jerusalem and analyze its importance as a unique city, a fantasy, an ideal; yet also a city like many others, a space of conflict and desire.
Jerusalem: The Sociology of Everyday Life in a Contested City
Jerusalem is composed of various walls, borders and boundaries, separating people from different religions, national belonging (Israelis/Palestinians), levels of religiosity, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. At the same time, Jerusalem is also a regular city, where people live, shop and struggle in their everyday lives with issues of gender, basic freedoms and activities, and with neoliberal economic forces and their effects on urban space. The course explores the major issues, actors and processes at play in Jerusalem, as a unique place with very particular features—yet a case study that can present a better understanding of Israel and the Israeli society as a whole.
An educator, historian and an architect, with expertise in 20th Century architectural culture and urban forms, focusing on modernisms in Israel in the context of global and local north-south relationships (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 2016). Martin has been teaching urban design studio and history/theory sequences at both graduate and undergraduate levels in the US and Israel.
A geographer and a town planner. Her research evolves around spatial cultural encounters and the effect of those on modern urban planning. She has written on the British planning of Jerusalem from a postcolonial point of view. Dr. Hysler Rubin is a senior lecturer at Bezalel and the academic coordinator of the Master's Program of Urban Design.
An architect and urban planner. He founded his firm Senan Architects in 1995. His book Architecture of (in)Dependency examines the possibilities of transforming Palestinian life from its rural/deficiently-urban hybrid status, towards contemporary forms of urbanity. In 2006, Abdelqader founded Bezalel's in+Formal Architecture Unit. In 2018, he founded the Institute for the Study of Arabic Culture at Bezalel.
Dr. Shehada is head of the Department of Visual Art at the Levinsky College of Education (Tel Aviv) and senior lecturer at the Bezalel Academy of Art (Jerusalem). His academic activities and publications concern Arabic and Islamic history and Art, and contemporary Palestinian art. His publications include a book and several articles on medieval veterinary medicine, studies on and catalogues of contemporary Palestinian art.
The director of the Lexicon for Political Theory project at the Minerva Humanities Center, Tel Aviv University. He is an interdisciplinary scholar, with specific interests in critical urbanism, political geography and political theory. Handel is the co-editor of Normalizing Occupation: The Politics of Everyday Life in the West Bank Settlements (Indiana University Press, 2017).
A founding partner of Derman Verbakel Architecture and the Head of the Department of Architecture at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem where she also directs the Masters Program in Urban Design, the UNESCO Chair in Urban Design and Conservation Studies at Bezalel and the Bezalel UNI Habitat Program. Els obtained a PhD in Architecture at Princeton University, a Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design at GSAPP, and a Graduate Degree in Civil Engineering and Architecture from the University of Leuven, Belgium.
An Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus. He is one of the main founders of the critical spatial practice agency AA&U for Architecture, Art and Urbanism. Socrates edited the Guide to Common Urban Imaginaries in Contested Spaces, curated Cyprus' participation in 15th Venice Biennale of Architecture, and led the project “Hands-on Famagusta”.
