LISTEN OBSERVE DISCUSS Nine Days of Lectures, Tours, Journeys, and Conversations in Jordan, Israel, and the West Bank
Jerusalem and The Occupation of Memory : LIFTA Advanced Architecture Design Studio, Spring 2014 Craig Konyk + Nina Kolowratnik Columbia University GSAPP
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DAYR GHASANA JAFFA
Israel West Bank West Jerusalem East Jerusalem Jordan
ABWEIN AJUL
BIR ZAYT
RAMALLAH
AMMAN
JERUSALEM LIFTA
BETHLEHEM DEHEISHE REFUGEE CAMP
Travel Diary concept and design: Jose Alexandro Brunner Maps: Reece Whitfield Tucker Final edit: Nina Kolowratnik
Listen Lecture 1 | Palestinian Refugee Camp: Reconstruction of Nahr el Bared & UNRWA Compound Lecture 2 | Architecture of Dependancy: Planning in East Jerusalem Lecture 3 | Aknowledging the Nakba: Commemorate, Witness, Acknowledge, and Repair Lecture 4 | The Case of Lifta: Implementing International Law Lecture 5 | Plan 6036
Observe Tour 1 | History and Archaeology: Petra Tour 2 | History and Archaeology: Amman Tour 3 | Walk in Old City: Church of the Holy Sepulcre, Wailing Wall, and Temple Mount Tour 4 | Palestinian Village West Jerusalem: Lifta Field Visit Tour 5 | Palestinian Refugee Camp: Walk in Deheishe Tour 6 | Palestinian City in Israel: Walk in Jaffa Tour 7 | Preserving Cultural Heritage Tour 8 | Palestinian Village West Jerusalem: Lifta Field Visit Journey 1 | Border Crossing Journey 2 | Route Towards Bethlehem Journey 3 | Crossing the Green Line
Discuss Conversation 1 | Gestures of Return: The Collective Imagination Conversation 2 | Friends Without Borders Conversation 3 | Sons of Lifta Conversation 4 | Watching Over Lifta for Future Generations: A fight to Preserve Conversation 5 | Campus in Camps: A University In Exile Conversation 6 | Lifta and the Regime of Forgetting: Memory Work and Conservation Conversation 7 | Discussion on Lifta Conversation 8 | Remembering Lifta: Firsthand Accounts of Life in the Palestinian Village and the Nakba Conversation 9 | Why Archive?: Remembering Lifta or the tensions of oral archiving Conversation 10 | Columbia University Midterm Review
Day One
Tour 1 History and Archaeology: Petra Petra tour led by Jawad Dukhgan and Diala Dabbas
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Conversation 1 Gestures of Return: The Collective Imagination Shuruq Harb Palestinian visual artist and writer, director of Makan Art Space, Amman Vocabulary Ancestry Collective Memory
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Day Two
Tour 2 History and Archaeology: Amman Roman theater and city tour led by Jawad Dukhgan
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Lecture 1 Palestine Refugee Camp: Reconstruction of Nahr el Bared & UNRWA Compund Muna Budeiri Head of the Housing and Camp Improvement Unit, UNRWA Infrastructure and Camp Improvement Department
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Day Three Journey 1 Border Crossing Allenby/King Hussein Bridge International Exit/Entry Point
Conversation 3 Sons of Lifta Zakaria Odeh Director of the Civil Coalition to Defend Palestinians’ Rights in East Jerusalem
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Conversation 2 Friends Without Borders: A Walk Across Allenby/King Hussein Bridge Miriam Rayward Monterey Institute of International Studies, International Policy Studies/Conflict Resolution
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Day Four Tour 3 Walk in Old City: Church of the Holy Sepulcre, Wailing Wall, and Temple Mount Tour led by Craig Konyk
Conversation 4 Watching Over Lifta for Future Generations: A fight to Preserve Second Generation Lifta Refugees Lifta Society and Committee for Protecting the Land of Lifta, second generation Lifta refugees
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Tour 4 Lifta field visit Tour led by Yacoub Odeh, second generation Lifta refugee Vocabulary Colonizer Colony Mentality Not healthy
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Day Five
Tour 5 Walk in Deheishe Refugee Camp, Bethlehem Tour led by Campus in Camps Participants
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Conversation 5 Campus in Camps: A University in Exile Alessandro Petti Directo of Campus in Camps, Bethlehem Vocabulary Representation Transgressing
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Day Five
Journey 2 Route Towards Bethlehem Meandering the separation barrier led by a Palestinian taxi driver
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Lecture 2 Architecture of Dependancy: Planning in Eastern Jerusalem Senan Abdelqader Founder of Senan Abdelqader Architects
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Day Six Tour 6 Palestinian Arab City: Walk in Jaffa Tour led by Diala Dabbas
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Lecture 3 Aknowledging the Nakba: Eitan Bronstein Director of Zochrot, Tel Aviv Vocabulary Commemorate Witness Acknowledge Repair
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Day S i x Lecture 4 The Case of Lifta: Implementing International Law Sami Ershied Attorney specializing in administrative law and human rights
Conversation 6 Lifta and the Regime of Forgetting: Memory Work and Conservation Daphna Golan Director of the Minerva Human Rights Fellows Program, in the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Conversation 7 Discussion on Lifta Youth Lifta Society Third Generation Lifta Refugees Vocabulary Occupier Colony Resistance Return
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Day Seven Tour 7 Preserving Cultural Heritage: Job Creation Through Conservation Palestinian village tours in Bir Zayt, Ajul, Abwein, and Dayr Ghasanah led by Riwaq architect, Fida Touma
Conversation 9 Why Archive? Remembering Lifta or the tensions of oral archiving Rana Barakat Assistant professor of History and Contemporary Arab Studies at Birzeit University in Palestine
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Conversation 8 Remembering Lifta: Firsthand Accounts of Life in the Palestinian Village and the Nakba First Generation Lifta Refugees Members of the Lifta Society in Ramallah
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Day Seven
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Lecture 5
Lecture 5
Plan 6036
Plan 6036: Lifta Redevelopment Project
Vocabulary Change in Perspective Realization Wrong Heritage Conserve Stabilize
Shmuel Groag Architect and Town Planner Conservation Consultant involved in the 2005 proposal to develop the land in Lifta, Head of Conservation Unit at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design - Architecture Department
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Day Eight Tour 8 Second field visit in Lifta Tour led by Mohammed Abu Leil and Wa’d Abu Leil
Vocabulary Community Children Vegetation
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Conversation 10 Jerusalem and The Occupation of Memory : Lifta Midterm Review Critics Eitan Bronstein Chen Farkas Yacoub Odeh Zakaria Odeh ElĂŠonore Merza
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Day Nine
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Journey 3 Crossing the Green Line: From Lifta to Bayt Iksa
Vocabulary Welcome to Palestine Area B Time-consuming Dangerous
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Jerusalem to Lifta - 1037
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Zochrot 1057
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Al Ajul 1126
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Abwein 1154
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Bir Zayt 1313
Zochrot to Yafo - 1219
Jaffa 1310
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Jerusalem 1610
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Lifta Society, Ramallah, Palestine - 1717
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Glossary of Term and Expressions in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Israeli Vocabulary
‘Politically Correct’
Palestinian Vocabulary
Security Wall/Fence Separaton Barrier Annexation Wall Separation Wall Separaton Barrier Apartheid Wall Border Boundary Diving Line Jerusalem East Jerusalem Occupied Jerusalem Disputed Areas West Bank, East Jerusalem Occupied Territories Return Problem Return Question Right of Return Law of Return Jewish Imigration _ Temple Mount _ Haram al-Sharif Dome of the Rock _ Qubbat As-Sakhrah Capital Seat of Government Capital Militarized Area Buffer Zone Barrier Development Construction Destruction Leveling Lands Destruction of property Destruction (when it has occurred) Israel Israel Hebrew State Israel Israel Zionist Entity United Capital of Israel Jerusalem/EJ/WJ Eternal Capital of the Palestinian People Israeli Government Israeli Government Government of Tel Aviv Green Line Green Line Green Line Land of Israel Historic Palestine Palestine Arabs of Israel Arab/Palestinian citizens Palestinians inside ‘48 borders of Israel IDF IDF Israel Occupation Forces Israeli Army Israeli Army Israel Occupation Forces Jewish Neighborhood (name of the community Settlement or outpost beyond the Green Line (where applicable) place or area) Judea and Samaria West Bank Palestine Greater Israel West Bank Palestine War of Independence Arab-Israeli War Nakba Incorporation Annexation Occupation Palestinian Resident Palestinian Citizen Palestinian Citizen Riot Demonstration Peaceful Demonstration March Demonstration Peaceful Demonstration Protest Demonstration Peaceful Demonstration Terrorism Resistance Right to Resist Jewish Residents Settlers Colonizers
Jerusalem and The Occupation Of Memory: LIFTA Advanced Architecture Design Studio VI, Spring 2014 Columbia University GSAPP Craig Konyk, Critic craig@konyk.net Nina Kolowratnik, Teaching Associate nvk2103@columbia.edu Rewoven Zachary Ethan Edelson, M.Arch zee2104@columbia.edu Permanent Impermanence Geoffrey Burton Bell, M.Arch gbb2116@columbia.edu Memory Trace Whitney Starbuck Boykin, M.Arch wsb2119@columbia.edu Finding Lifta Jose Alexandro Brunner, MS.AAD jab2364@columbia.edu Selective Resuscitation Jaeyoung Park, MS.AAD jp3368@columbia.edu The Lifta Platform Reece Whitfield Tucker, MS.AAD rwt2110@columbia.edu
Contributors
Civic Coalition for Saving Lifta Yacoub Odeh & Zakaria Odeh, Activists Lifta Refugees Daphna Golan, Co-Founder Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Shmuel Groag Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Architecture Dept. Ilan Shtaye, Coordinator Civic Coalition for Saving Lifta Columbia Global Centers, Middle East Nora Akawi, Director Studio-X Global Network - Amman Lab Jawad Dukhgan, Programs Coordinator Studio-X Global Network - Amman Lab Diala Dabbas, Manager Institute for Sustainable Development Practice
Vocabulary
Conversation 1 Amman / Jordan Shuruq Harb
(continued from conversation 4) Poverty level Generations Original village Director of Makan Art Space in Destroyed Aman, visual artist and writer, from Ramallah/ Palestine. Conversation 5 Bethlehem / West Bank Ancestry Alessandro Petti Collective Memory Reality Director of Campus in Camps Village of origin / camp of origin Conversation 2 Temporary King Hussein Bridge / Allenby Bridge Health Miriam Rayward International narrative Colonial imagination Monterey Institute of International Build together Studies, International Policy Stud- Freedom of transportation ies/Conflict Resolution Return mediation Complexity of return Half-Palestinian and Half-American Theft of time Language Mobility Access Citizen Father Refugee Village close to Safad Conversation 6 Return East Jerusalem Talk to people Daphna Golan Conversation 4 East Jerusalem Sons of Lifta Second generation Lifta refugees Bulldozers Preservation Accessible Refugee
Director of the Minerva Human Rights Fellows Program, Faculty of Law, the Hebrew University Right to Memory Discussion Blaming Angry Right to Return Nakba Law Unofficial/official denial
Vocabulary Conversation 7 East Jerusalem Lifta Youth Society Third Generation Lifta Refugees Occupier Colony Terrorist Settlement Return Resistance Conversation 8 Ramallah / West Bank Lifta Society - Ramallah First Generation Lifta Refugees Dream Peace Pilgrims Tension Truck Sewing machine Conversation 9 Ramallah / West Bank Rana Barakat Assistant professor of History and Contemporary Arab Studies at Birzeit University in Palestine Western Corridor Property Oral history Memory
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