"The Powerful Role of Spatial Planning in Conflictual Zones: From Violent to Hopeful Urbanisms." Yosef Jabareen
- Event Type
- Webinar
- Sponsor
- Department of Urban and Regional Planning and The Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
- Virtual
- Join online
- Date
- Feb 24, 2025 12:30 pm
- Speaker
- Yosef Jabareen, Visiting Professor Columbia University
- Views
- 154
- Originating Calendar
- Middle East Events
Spatiality is a powerful intervention and manipulation of spaces and places. It is a praxis that embeds practices populated with political and social intentions. Thus, it has the power to produce new realities along a broad spectrum of binaries, such as trust/risk, hope/despair, and inclusion/exclusion. Spatiality can imagine alternative spaces of trust, recognition, dignity, and tolerance. However, in some cases of deep conflicts, such as in Israel/Palestine, when spatiality through the "professional" mask serves as an extension of military intervention, pretending to plan a "new world," it becomes cruel, supremacist, unethical, and full of darkness.