Public Books
Malkit Shoshan
Public Books
a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship
  • Essays
  • Interviews
  • Sections
    • View All
    • Anthropology & Religion
    • Antiquities
    • Art
    • Borderlands
    • Capitalism
    • Culture Industries
    • Digital Humanities
    • Film
    • Global Black History
    • Higher Education
    • Literary Fiction
    • Literature in Translation
    • Poetry
    • Politics
    • Print/Screen
    • Sociology
    • Sports
    • Systems and Futures
    • Technology
    • TV
    • Urbanism
    • Videogames
  • Series
    • View All
    • B-Sides
    • The Book That Made Me
    • Crisis Cities
    • An Engineer Reads a Novel
    • Migrant Futures
    • On Our Nightstands
    • Public Streets
    • Public Thinker
    • Quizzical
    • Shoptalk
    • Syllabi
    • Virtual Roundtables
    • @X
  • Podcasts
    • Public Books 101
    • Novel Dialogue
    • Primary Sources
    • Writing Latinos
  • Donate
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram

Malkit Shoshan

Malkit Shoshan works at the intersection of design and activism. She is the founding director of the architectural think tank Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory (FAST). FAST uses research, advocacy, and design to investigate the relationships between architecture, urban planning, and human rights. She is currently the area head of the Art, Design, and the Public Domain Master in Design Studies at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a visiting scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU.

Shoshan is the author and the mapmaker of the award-winning book Atlas of Conflict: Israel-Palestine (Uitgeverij 010, 2010) and the co-author of Village. One Land Two Systems and Platform Paradise (Damiani Editore, 2014). Her additional publications include Zoo, or the Letter Z, Just after Zionism (NAiM, 2012); “Spaces of Conflict,” a special issue of Footprint: Delft Architecture Theory Journal (2017); Greening Peacekeeping: The Environmental Impact of UN Peace Operations (International Peace Institute, 2018); and UN Peace Missions in Urban Environments (FAST, CIC-NYU, 2019).

In 2016, Shoshan curated the Dutch Pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale with the exhibition BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions, which is the subject and title of her forthcoming book (Actar, 2022). In 2021, Shoshan won the Silver Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale for her collaborative project Border Ecologies and the Gaza Strip: Watermelon, Sardines, Crabs, Sand, and Sediment.

Her research and design work have been published in newspapers and journals, including the New York Times, The Guardian, NRC, Haaretz, Volume, Surface, Frame, Metropolis, and exhibited in venues including the Venice Architecture Biennale (2002, 2008, 2016, 2021), Bureau Europa (2012, 2020), Boijmans Museum (2017), UN Headquarters in NYC (2016), Experimenta (2011), Het Nieuwe Instituut (2014), the Istanbul Design Biennale (2014), the Israel Digital Art Center (2012), and the Netherlands Architecture Institute (2007). icon

  • Visit website

Gaza: Landscapes of Exclusion and Violence

By Malkit Shoshan

Design can lift some communities. But it can also subject others to live precariously, often at the same time.

Get Our Weekly Newsletter

Most Viewed

  • This Is Your Brain on Books
  • Toward the Next Literary Mafia
  • Why Does Japanese Society Overlook Racism?
  • Who’s Afraid of al-Andalus?
  • What 35 Years of Data Can Tell Us about Who Will Win the National Book Award

LISTEN TO WRITING LATINOS

  • Ingrid Rojas Contreras on “The Man Who Could Move...
    Geraldo Cadava 7.26.2023

Subscribe to RSS

Support Public Books

Editors’ Pick

  • Data Free Disney
    Janet Vertesi 1.31.2023
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Submissions
  • Partners
  • News
  • Contact
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram

Public Books Logo
© 2023 Public Books.TM All Rights Reserved