West Bank Lab
London, 2011. Research, Design & Curation
Slade Gallery
Cities Methodologies 2011, UCL Urban Lab
This project explores and exposes some abnormalities in Israeli’s cross-frontier military urbanism in the West Bank; a real-life laboratory for extra-ordinary spatial practices. Israel’s urbanism in the Occupied Territories persistently reshapes the conditions of the West Bank through design and a continual rewriting of urban legislations. Checkpoints, borders, the separation Wall, aerial frontiers, the control of natural resources, the Oslo Accord and the sporadic reconfiguration of spatial relations have become some of the most significant tools to support the Occupation.
This work was created within the theoretical framework of Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR)
Curator: Ben Campkin
West Bank Lab
Research: Benjamin Leclair-Paquet
Design: Benjamin Leclair-Paquet
This project was visualized through photographs, architectural drawings and collages. The collages are composed of original material only.
