Summary
Architect and environmental designer whose piece in Zochrot’s Sedek: A Journal on the Ongoing Nakba documents four stages of “re-emergence” for Miska developed out of the Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR) in Beit Sahour (Invited to Witness — Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine, PDF p.187-188).
Details
- DAAR’s work proposes a “subversion, reuse, profanation, and recycling of the existing infrastructure of colonial occupation” (PDF p.187).
- The four stages: symbolic interventions on the village site (“laying markers to reappropriate the site of the village”); a token return by Palestinians living in Israel (“planting catalysts”); an actual return by a handful of families, who “densify” the original grain of the village; and a “solidification of the urban fabric” as remaining families return (PDF p.187-188).
- Barclay wants some “colonial debris” left evident as a reminder and homage, with the “voids of absence” becoming “public spaces with an architecture composed of a dialogue between the layers of memory, erasure, and presence” (PDF p.188).
- His image Exile and Return to Miska (2011) accompanies the third phase (figure 5.13) (PDF p.189).
Related pages
Invited to Witness — Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine, Miska, Zochrot, Right of Return