Decolonizing Architecture December 7, 2010

Opening reception: Sunday December 5 | 4–7 pm

Opening talk: Eyal Weizman in conversation with Steve Fagin | 4:30pm

Decolonizing Architecture is a project initiated by Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal and Eyal Weizman in 2007. Set up as a studio/residency program in Beit Sahour, Bethlehem and recently re-established as the Decolonizing Architecture Institute (DAi), they engage spatial research and theory, taking the conflict over Palestine as their main case study. Decolonizing Architecture seeks to use spatial practice as a form of political intervention and narration. Their practice continuously engages a complex set of architectural problems centered around one of the most difficult dilemmas of political practice: how to act both propositionally and critically within an environment in which the political force field, as complex as it may be, is so dramatically skewed.

Official Website: http://www.redcat.org/exhibition/decolonizing-architecture-project-alessandro-petti-sandi-hilal-and-eyal-weizman