Interrogative Design Symposium
December 5–6
Malkit Shoshan is the 2024 Senior Loeb Fellow at Harvard GSD and a 2024 Resident at The Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center. She is a designer, researcher, and writer, and founding director of the architectural think-tank FAST (Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory) that operates at the intersection of architecture, urban planning, and human rights. FAST’s interdisciplinary work investigates the impact of systemic violence on people’s lived environments and aims to promote social and environmental justice through collaborative initiatives and designs.
In 2021, Shoshan was awarded the Silver Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale for her collaborative project Border Ecologies and the Gaza Strip: Watermelon, Sardines, Crabs, Sand, and Sediment, which is also the subject of her forthcoming book with Amir Qudaih (Mack Books, 2024). In 2016, she curated the Dutch Pavilion at The Venice Architecture Biennale. Shoshan is the author of the award-winning book “Atlas of Conflict: Israel-Palestine” (Uitgeverij 010, 2010), “Village: One Land, Two Systems and Platform Paradise” (Damiani Editore, 2014), and “BLUE: The Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions” (Actar, 2023). Her additional publications include “Zoo, or the letter Z, just after Zionism” (NAiM, 2012), “Drone. UNMANNED. Architecture and Security Series” (DPR-Barcelona, 2016), “Retreat. UNMANNED. Architecture and Security Series” (DPR-Barcelona, 2020), “Spaces of Conflict,” TU Delft Architecture Theory Journal (JAP SAM Books, 2017), and “Greening Peacekeeping: The Environmental Impact of UN Peace Operations”.
Her research and design work have been featured in leading newspapers and journals, including the New York Times, The Guardian, NRC, Haaretz, Volume, Surface, Frame, Metropolis, and Harvard Design Magazine, and her work has been exhibited internationally at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2002, 2008, 2016, 2021), Cooper Hewitt (2021-2023), Rotterdam Architecture Biennale (2011, 2022), UN Headquarters in New York City (2016), Harvard GSD (2017, 2020), NAiM/Bureau Europa (2012, 2021), Boijmans Museum (2016), Het Nieuwe Instituut (2014), Istanbul Design Biennale (2014), Israel Digital Art Center (2012), and Netherlands Architecture Institute (2007).
