Conference

Since the occupation and annexation of East Jerusalem to West
Jerusalem in 1967, all processes of urban change have been deeply
influenced by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. One of the world’s most
historic cultural thresholds has been transformed into a frontier city
characterised by destructive dualities and opposites, where cultures
and mentalities collide in an unprecedented intensity.
Following intense Israeli construction in the annexed East after 1967,
the single demarcation line (border) that had divided the city since
1948 has been gradually replaced by a matrix of isolated insular urban
realities contained by physical and mental frontiers. Architecture and
urban planning have become instruments in the struggle for territorial
and demographic control.

The international conference Cities of Collision marks the first public
event of a trilateral initiative involving the International Peace and
Cooperation Centre IPCC (East Jerusalem), the Bezalel Academy of
Arts and Design (West Jerusalem) and the University of Arts UdK
(Berlin), and is subsequent to one year of successful cooperation
between architectural students. The purpose of the forum is to
facilitate professional dialogue between Palestinian, Israeli and
International experts, academics and practitioners in the field of
architecture, planning, geography and visual culture. This initial
conference is an attempt to examine spaces of collision as a global
phenomenon portrayed in urban reality and human perception.

Conference

Date: 2 / 3 / 4 November 2004
Location: The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
Albert Einstein Square
43 Jabotinsky Street
P.O. Box 4070
Jerusalem 91040
T +972 (0)2 560 52 22
www www.vanleer.org.il

Concept/ Curator: Philipp Misselwitz
Co-ordination: Rana Abu Ghazaleh, Kinneret Lahad, Philipp
Misselwitz

Curatorial team: Shimshon Zelniker, Kinneret Lahad,
(The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute)
Rami Nasrallah, Rana Abu Ghazaleh (International Peace and
Cooperation Centre IPCC)
Philipp Misselwitz, Tim Rieniets (grenzgeografien: University of Arts/
ETH Zurich)
Zvi Efrat, Haim Yacobi (Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design)
Wendy Pullan (Research Project ‘Conflict in Cities’)
Anselm Franke, Eyal Weizman (Territories Live)

Conference

participants include:
Fida’ Adbel-Latif, Rana Abu Ghazaleh, Pal Ahluwalia,
Omar Al Qattan, Amin Amin, Suad Amiry, Ariella Azoulay,
Tamar Berger, Sylvaine Bulle, Zvi Efrat, Anselm Franke,
Yaakov Garb, Stephen Graham, Derek Gregory, Sari Hanafi,
Jad Ishaq, Jessica Jacobs, Thomas Keenan, Adrianna Kemp,
Rassem Khamaisi, Kinneret Lahad, Philipp Misselwitz,
Issam Nassar, Rami Nasrallah, David Newman, Nitzan-Shiftan,
Adi Ophir, Bas Princen, Wendy Pullan, Tim Rieniets, Irit Rogoff,
Sharon Rotbard, Florian Schneider, Basak Senova,
AbdouMaliq Simone, Eyal Sivan, Salim Tamari, Milica Topalovic,
Eyal Weizman, Haim Yacobi, Oren Yftachel, Shimshon Zelniker
and others

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Conference

Organisers:
• International Peace and Cooperation Centre IPCC
• Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem
• University of Arts Berlin
• The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

Made possible by:
• Robert Bosch Foundation
• The Arthur Goldreich Trust
• Goetheinstitutes Jerusalem and Ramallah
• Mondriaan Foundation
• Territories-Live

Participation is by invitation only. The language of the conference will be English.

Guidebook

as a result of the last workshop in jerusalem in februar 2004,
a guidebook to the spaces of collision was compiled.
It is a collection of spatial items and situations located on the
conceptual section between
Talpiot Mizrakh, Sur Baher and Har Homa.

The guidebook is displayed as a part of the
gr | enzg | eogr | afi | en - installation in malmö and can be
downloaded here as a screen-optimimized-PDF-file (size 6 MB)

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