One Land and Platform Paradise by Malkit Shoshan

ONE LAND & PLATFORM PARADISE EIN HAWD 28.8.2008 - 6.8.2008

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The Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory

ONE LAND One Land

A spatial experiment aimed at using architectural and design tools to improve people living condition.

Opening event

The opening event, 28.8.2008 in Ein Hawd was launched with the blessing of Mr. Carmel Sela, the head of the Hof Hacarmel regional council. He stated publicly that he think the masterplan is good for the village and for the region and that he will support our masterplan.

Family day

A family day, during the last events in Ein Hawd FAST organized a program for women from the village like sexual education by Raneen Garis and Rebecca Gomperts, design sessions by Petra Blaisse, and workshops and performances. for the children

The Golden Heart Pavilion

The Golden Heart Pavilion is the first community building for Ein Hawd. It was designed by Malkit Shoshan and realized in August 2008.

Discussions

The Golden Heart pavilion became the center of discussions on the role of art, architecture and design in emergency situations. Participants: Ali Kazma, Alwine Van Heemstra, Berend Strik, Camila Pinzon, Dan Graham, Debra Solomon, Gianluigi Ricuperati, Jozeph Grima, Maddalena Bergani, Malkit Shoshan, Matthijs Bouw, Maurizio Bortolotti, Muhammad Abu Al Hayja, Museo Area Solar, Nasreen Abu Al Hayja, Noga Inbar, Ola Jabali, Petra Blaisse, Raneen Garis, Rebecca Gomperts, Salman Natour, Salvatore Porcaro, Sharif Waked, Selma Maaroufi, Tomas Saraceno, Zvi Efrat

‘One Land Two Systems’ exhibition

The Golden Heart contains the ‘One Land Two Systems’ exhibition. It made of the following elements: a presentation of Ein Hawd’s history and vision for its future, a model of the new masterplan, a book of the international architecture competition results, a tourist stand and the film ‘500 dunams on the moon’ by Rachel Leah Jones. The exhibition was designed by Sharif Waked.

The Masterplan

The beautiful scenery of Ein Hawd is the starting point for the alternative masterplan. It proposes restoring the Mediterranean landscape (pre-48). It is not just romantic but a practical project. It conserves the local environment; provide occupation, food, and economic possibilities for the village; and contribute to the ecological variety and aesthetic value of Carmel and the country as a whole. A new farmers’ market will build on Ein Hawd’s existing strengths, and enable to develop its abundant potential for tourism and agritourism.

Impact

The first encounter with the regional authorities. a day before the opening. The head of the regional council, after confirming his arrival to the opening event, sent construction workers to repair the road to Ein Hawd.

The plan has been developed with the villagers themselves, with the aim of improving living conditions now and in the future. The plan accommodates the approved road and the existing built context of Ein Hawd. It respects the villagers’ efficient and democratic system of land allocation. It complements the history and heritage of the area. It uses the villagers’ love of the land to address the need for real change. Above all, it identifies a unique opportunity in Ein Hawd, by making it a casebook study in unlocking potential, as well as creating the most beautiful Palestinian village in Israel.

PLATFORM PARADISE Berend Strik and Nasreen Abu Al Hayja “Appearances”

Nico Dockx and Helena Sidiropoulos “Untitled”

Dan Graham “Waterloo Pavilion”

One Architecture and Concern “Ein Hawd Resort”

Dressing is a representation of the ensemble of rules that define the social space of a community. The two artists are working together on the traditional clothes of the village, trying to create a new iconography and placing the women of the village as protagonists of the new village’s life.

Sunset

A key location of Ein Hawd social space is the quite basic structure of the elementary school. Its simple architectural elements don’t offer much to fuel the children’s imagination. The project of Dan Graham for the Award Gallery will present the re-definition of the space of people, expression how we can create social spaces for children also a context of complexity.

Debra Solomon Market”

“To Market, the

Together with the women of Ein Hawd, Solomon is developing a market that aims to represent the story of the food in the village. This market triggers a process of awareness for both the village food producers and the visitors to the market that buy her local products. The market is a representational machine in which the space of food and culture is connected with the ecology of Ein Hawd as a location, an expression of the cultural identity of the village. Aside from the sustainable development aspect, developing a market filled with local produce is a cultural act.

Map Office “Third Landscape”

Map Office have brought seeds from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and planted them in 1 x 1 meter squares, forming a series of 10 ‘third’ landscapes. Their work represents the will to produce a land that doesn’t yet exist, but that it is expected to exist in the future. Their third landscape is the ideal of a future land which is a utopia desiring to become real. They tried to mark the borders of the village with ten pieces of these new lands, describing a tour through the physical space of Ein Hawd. One meter squares, bordered by mirrors representing the insulated and reflective space and the foreign aspects here.

An intervention of public art on a wall in the village. Dockx and Sidiropoulos explicitly use art as a collective tool to involve the villagers of Ein Hawd in the production of public art, transforming their own social space from their own reservoir of imagination.

In the alternative masterplan, a resort is proposed at Ein Hawd’s most beautiful spot. One Architecture and Concern have made a space where visitors can contemplate the (social, political, cultural) landscape of Ein Hawd. At the site, a proposal for an environmentally sensitive cabin is presented.

Sharif Waked “Humus”

Humus is the pervasive dish that indelibly links the Israeli majority to the Palestinian minority. It is at the table over humus that Israelis commune at Palestinian restaurant - humus itself has come to be presented globally as an Israeli national dish. “HUMUS” brings the seemingly broad notions of identity and cooptation to the level of their everyday experience. Two chairs and a table embedded with two plates of sprouting chickpeas, stand (artificially balanced) on a steep slope. “HUMUS” questions the premise of a level playing field and ironically explores co-existence’s restrictions to the realm of the culinary.

Tomas Saraceno and Museo Aerosolar “Museo Aerosolar”

This project, that is and has traveled to many places around the world, is a project for communities committed to making a totally different and inexpensive museum. By using simple and accessible materials like re-used plastic bags assembled by the people (and children) of the village and allowed to float into the sky, it affirms the space above the village as a social space that anyone can use, reappropriating an ordinarily off-limits area.

Ali Kazma “Today”

Video artist Ali Kazma is an observer of the internal rhythms of Ein Hawd. The social space of everyday life is a resource of his observation. The process of transformation of this space is the real core of his work and the network of events, actions, persons in the space of village is the platform upon which it builds. The social space is completely identified in the art of Kazma’s work.

Multiplicity “The Road Map” (2003)

The Road Map (2003) is the result of an experiment carried out in order to measure the density of border devices characterizing the social space of the surrounding area of Jerusalem. The two taxi journeys - one undertaken by an Israeli passenger and the other by a Palestinian - underline the extraordinary entanglement of zones, borders and control points which make this region one of the hardest in the world to inhabit. Their project creates a strong connection amongst the specific problems of the village and the background of the relationship between Israeli and Palestinian people within the context of Israel today.

Yona Friedman “Merzstrukturen”

The Hungarian-Israeli architect Yona Friedman has re-defined architecture as strictly connected with the social space, in which the members of a community can realize their own idea of planning and building. He wants to apply simple rules for building architectonic structures in a way that everybody can use them. This project is an exemplification of these rules for the people of Ein Hawd.

One Land and Platform Paradise are two projects celebrating the rebirth of Ein Hawd, a Palestinian village in Israel. Following the four-year project, One Land Two Systems, which created a new masterplan for (and with) the unrecognised Palestinian village of Ein Hawd. It began with an international architecture and design competition for the development of an alternative master plan for the village. The winners of the competition, a group of architects and designers from France, Germany and Israel, have joined FAST and the community of Ein Hawd to further develop a sustainable solution for the village. The plan has now been completed by FAST, to the satisfaction of Ein Hawdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s residents, for whom it is the beginning of making their dreams a reality. It is now being used in negotiation with the authorities to have Ein Hawd fully recognised by the state. The process, meanwhile, has acted as a model for a new kind of architectural practice based on community, sustainability and politics. From August 28th to September 7th, a series of public events and workshops, and spatial, social and cultural interventions in Ein Hawd finalised the project by making concrete changes in the village and its surroundings through the two programs: ONE LAND and PLATFORM PARADISE. ONE LAND celebrates the rebirth of Ein Hawd through its new masterplan, the construction of the first community building and a series of public events and discussions for the community. PLATFORM PARADISE,is an art show commissioned by FAST and curated by Maurizio Bortolotti assisted by Noga Inbar, open from September 1st to 7th 2008 in Ein Hawd, and continue until November 1st.

Sponsors: OXFAM novib, the Netherlands Architecture Fund, FBKVB, the Dutch embassy Israel The Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory