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Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR) is an architectural collective that is dedicated to speculate on the reuse and transformation of colonial architecture. It was founded in 2007 in Bethlehem by Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal and Eyal Weizman .1DAAR has an imaginary focus on a future in which Israel colonial architecture is unplugged from the actual colonial power. It works on solutions, wherein one has considered methods reusing colonies and military bases.2The ideas that have been developed are spread in the region and abroad via exhibitions, seminars, videos and publications. Dozens of local and international architects are allied with the institute.3Furthermore, it works together with a great number of individuals and organizations outside the architectonic world, like artists, film makers and activists. The institute has as a goal to reutilize the potential of architecture in a new manner, and sees it as an instrument of decolonization. In 2010 the institute was honored with a Prince Claus Award , a major cultural development award from the Netherlands . The jury rewards its work " for introducing a non-traditional approach to development in conflict and post-conflict situations, for providing valuable speculation on the future realities of disputed territories, for its critical challenge to outdated urban planning theories based on a more peaceful world, and for highlighting the role of architecture highlighting the role of architecture and visualisation in creating and altering the frontiers of reality.4
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( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR) is an architectural studio and a residency program based in Beit Sahour , Palestine .DAAR's work combines spatial interventions, theoretical writings and collective learning.DAAR is dedicated to architectural experimentations on the reuse and transformation of colonial architecture , settlements, military bases , 1948 cleansed Palestinian villages, primarily in Palestine.DAAR was founded in 2007 in Beit Sahour near Bethlehem by Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal and Eyal Weizman .The ideas that have been developed and disseminated throughout the region and abroad via exhibitions, seminars, videos and publications. Dozens of local and international architects are allied with the institute. Furthermore, it works together with a large number of artists, film makers and activists.The architectural studio and art residency was established with the aim of engaging with a complex set of architectural problems centered on one of the most difficult dilemmas of political practice: how to act both propositionally and critically in an environment in which the political force fields, as complex as they may be, are so dramatically skewed.Are interventions at all possible?How can we find an “autonomy of practice” that is both critical and transformative?
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Architectural studio in Beit Sahour, West Bank Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR) is an architectural studio, collective of architects and a residency program based in Beit Sahour , Palestine .DAAR was established to work on complex architectural problems in a region with strongly conflicting political forces, and is related to the Decolonizing Architecture Art Research collective.
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Architectural studio in Beit Sahour, West Bank Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency ( DAAR ) is an architectural studio, collective of architects and a residency program based in Beit Sahour , Palestine . DAAR was established to work on complex architectural problems in a region with strongly conflicting political forces, and is related to the Decolonizing Architecture Art Research collective.
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