FRAGMENTATION, TRANSMISSION: CARTOGRAPHIES OF THE NAKBA AND RESISTANCE IN PALESTINE

Abstract

 Israel has deepened the catastrophe over Palestine. The Nakba (), a word derived from Arabic, and which means catastrophe, stands as a structure of fragmentation by design, being tested, constructed, and reinforced over time through instruments of domination over Palestine lives. In this context, a group of students from Harvard Graduate School of Design created the Fragmentation Collective to critically examine the role of design in contexts of high socio-spatial violence through dialogues and a cartographic exhibition. In the last months, we have witnessed how architecture, urban planning, and design schools that introduce settler colonialism in their curricular framework as a historic legacy remain silent on the form these regimes take in the present critical contexts. Recognizing that design is only one of the multiple instruments, we firmly believe that we must put our pedagogies, practices, and abilities at the service of answers to structural forms of violence.