Malkit Shoshan

Malkit Shoshan

RCPI Affiliate
Malkit Shoshan, Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative Affiliate

Malkit Shoshan is the founder and director of the architectural think tank FAST: Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory. FAST uses research, advocacy, and design to investigate the relationship between architecture, urban planning, and human rights in conflict and post-conflict areas to promote spatial justice, equality and solidarity. Shoshan is the author and the map maker of the award-winning book Atlas of Conflict: Israel-Palestine (Uitgeverij 010, 2010). Shoshan is also the co-author of the book Village. One Land Two Systems and Platform Paradise (Damiani Editore, 2014). Shoshan's masterplan included in Village served as a tool to negotiate the community’s right to spatial equality and state services with the local authorities. Additional publications include Zoo, or the letter Z, just after zionism (NAiM, 2012), the UNMANNED: Architecture and Security Series (DPR-Barcelona, 2016) and the issue Spaces of Conflict for Footprint, TU Delft Architecture Theory Journal (JAP SAM Books, 2017). In 2016, Shoshan was the curator of the Dutch Pavilion for The Venice Architecture Biennale with the exhibition BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions, which examines the spatiality and legacy of UN Peace Operations in conflict-affected urban environments. The exhibition is now part of the National Architecture Collection of The Netherlands and will be the subject of her forthcoming book BLUE: Peacekeeping Architecture (Actar, 2018).