About the Participants

Alessandro Petti
Alessandro Petti is a Research Architect based in Bethlehem, professor at the Bard/Al-Quds University in Abu Dis and Research Fellow at Goldsmiths College University of London. He has written on the emerging spatial order dictated by the paradigm of security and control in Arcipelaghi e enclave (Archipelagos and enclaves, Bruno Mondadori, Milan 2007). His recent publications are: Future Archaeology (Afterall, February 2009) Dubai Offshore Urbanism in Heterotopia and the City (Routledge 2008), Temporary Zones. Alternative Spaces or Territories of Social-spatial Control? in Post-it City (CCCB 2008), Asymmetries of the Globalized space in The impossible prison, (Centre for Contemporary Art Nottingham 2008). He co-curated different research projects on the contemporary urban condition such as Borderdevices (2002-2007), Uncertain States of Europe (2001-2003) with multiplicity and Stateless Nation with Sandi Hilal (2002-2007) www.statelessnation.org and showed in various biennales and museums. He is involve with Sandi Hilal and Eyal Weyzman in a research project entitled Decolonizing Architecture; a project that explores the problems and potentiality associated with the reuse of Israeli colonial architecture after the ending of Israeli occupation and settlers evacuations www.decolonizing.ps . He is also working on a research project titled ‘Atlas of Decolonization’, an architectural documentation of the re-use, re-inhabitation and subversion of colonial structures. His projects have been published in national and international newspapers and magazines: the New York Times, Il Manifesto, Al Ayyam, Al- Quds, Art Forum and Archis.

Sandi Hilal
Sandi Hilal graduated in Architecture. She works as a consultant with the UNRWA on the Camp improvement program. She is a visiting professor at the International Academy of Art Palestine. She is co-curator of the project Decolonizing Architecture. In 2006 she obtained the title of research doctorate in Transborder policies for daily life in the University of Trieste. From 2001 to 2005 she has been teaching assistant in Visual Arts and Urban Studies at the IUAV University of Venice. She’s a co-curator of different research projects shown internationally: Stateless Nation (website) and Arab City Project (with Alessandro Petti), Border devices (with multiplicity [website]). Her publications include Senza Stato una Nazione,(Marsilio, Venezia 2003); Living Among the Dead (Domus 880, April 2005); Road Map(Equilibri, August 2004), la stanza dei sogni (Liguori Editore, 2004), Stateless Nation(Archis, Preview # 4 2003). Her projects have been published in national and international newspapers and magazines: the New York Times, Il Manifesto, Al Ayyam, Al- Quds, Art Forum, and Archis.

Eyal Weizman
Eyal Weizman is an Architect based in London. He studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London and completed his PhD at the London Consortium, Birkbeck College. He is the director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Before this role, Weizman was Professor of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. As an architect in Israel he has been working on architectural projects related to art and theatre. Weizman works with a variety of NGOs and Human right groups in Israel/Palestine. He co-curated the exhibition A Civilian Occupation, The Politics of Israeli Architecture, and co-edited the publication of the same title. These projects were based on his human-rights research, and were banned by the Israeli Association of Architects. They were later shown in the exhibition Terriories in New York, Berlin, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Malmoe, Tel Aviv and Ramallah. Weizman has taught, lectured and organised conferences in many institutions worldwide. His books include Hollow Land(Verso Books, 2007), A Civilian Occupation (Verso Books, 2003), the series Territories 1, 2and 3, Yellow Rhythms and many articles in journals, magazines and edited books. Weizman is a regular contributors to many journals and magazines and is an editor at large for Cabinet Magazine (New York). Weizman is the recipient of the James Stirling Memorial Lecture Prize for 2006-2007.

Salottobuono
Salottobuono was born in 2005 as a collector of research experiences and design production. It investigates the urban space, codifying cognitive devices and triggering transformation strategies. Topics, challenges and programs are occasions for diagrammatic analyses and elaboration of paradoxical visions. Critical nodes, discontinuities and weak points are exasperated through the formulation of visionary objects and performative practicies based on non-authorial concepts and minimal rationality. Salottobuono is grounded in intellectual exchange and relational attitude built around a stable work group. Its experience develops through the participation in competitions, workshops, publications and specific assignments. www.salottobuono.net

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