MEDIATING the SPATIALITY of CONFLICTS International Conference Proceedings
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MEDIATING THE SPATIALITY OF CONFLICTS International Conference Proceedings November 2019. Department of Architecture, TU Delft MEDIATING THE SPATIALITY OF CONFLICTS International Conference Proceedings 2 Contents 11 Conference Program Introduction 17 Keynote Lectures 29 Caren Kaplan 45 Pelin Tan Session 1 63 Jeffrey Kruth 75 Christopher Chen 85 Emine Görgül Session 2 99 111 Aikaterini Antonopoulou 2 Session 3 Session 7 123 237 Daniella Maamari Sigal Barnir and Liat Savin Ben Shoshan 249 137 Siobhan Barry Eliza Culea-Hong 261 Session 4 Göke Önal 151 Session 8 159 275 Ahmad Beydoun Mariacristina D’Oria Session 5 287 Eliyahu Keller and Eytan Mann 177 Socrates Stratis PhD Contribution 191 Corine van Emmerik 303 199 Grazia Tona Melina Philippou Exhibition Session 6 315 The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) 213 331 Francesca Zanotto Nicolás Kisic Aguirre 221 Margarethe Mueller Workshops 345 3D Semantic Data Modelling Paola Ronzino and Nicola Amico 349 Ariel Caine Film 357 367 Conference Program 9 International Conference, November 6, 7 & 8, 2019 Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft Wednesday, November 6, 2019 09.00-09.30 Berlagezaal 2 09.30-10.00 Berlagezaal 1 Marc Schoonderbeek, Programme Director B&T 10.00-12.30 Room K Ariel Caine, Forensic Architecture Room J Paola Ronzino and Nicola Amico, ARIADNE Plus 11.00-12.00 Berlagezaal 1 Nama’a Qudah ‘Spatialising Displacement’ Guest reviewers: Caren Kaplan and Adam Ramadan Moderator: Andrej Radman 12.30-13.30 Berlagezaal 2 13.30-16.00 Room K Ariel Caine, Forensic Architecture Room J Paola Ronzino and Nicola Amico, ARIADNE Plus 14.00-15.00 Berlagezaal 1 Grazia Tona ‘Border Drift: the multiplication of liminal spaces’ Guest reviewer: Caren Kaplan Moderator: Andrej Radman 16.00-16.30 Berlagezaal 2 16.30-18.30 Berlagezaal 1 Caren Kaplan ‘Drones and the Image Complex: the limits of representation in an era of distance warfare’ Moderator: Armina Pilav 19.30-21.30 Filmhuis Lumen Doelenplein 5 ‘The Temperature of the War’ Curated and presented by Ilona Jurkonyté Thursday, November 7, 2019 Friday, November 8, 2019 09.00-09.30 Berlagezaal 2 09.00-09.30 Berlagezaal 2 09.30-11.00 Berlagezaal 1 09.30-11.00 Berlagezaal 1 The Political Agency of Photography Critical Cartographies Christopher Chen, Jeffrey Kruth and Emine Görgül Corine van Emmerik, Melina Philippou, Socrates Stratis Chair: Caren Kaplan Chair: Heidi Sohn 09.30-11.00 Room K 09.30-11.00 Room K Ariel Caine, Forensic Architecture Ariel Caine, Forensic Architecture Room J Room J Paola Ronzino and Nicola Amico, ARIADNE Plus Paola Ronzino and Nicola Amico, ARIADNE Plus 11.00-11.15 Berlagezaal 2 11.00-11.15 Berlagezaal 2 11.15-12.45 Berlagezaal 1 11.15-12.45 Berlagezaal 1 The Political Agency of Moving Images Margarethe Mueller, Lutz Robbers, Francesca Zanotto Chair: Ilona Jurkonyté Chair: Marc Schoonderbeek 11.15-12.45 Room K 11.15-12.45 Room K Ariel Caine, Forensic Architecture Ariel Caine, Forensic Architecture Room J Room J Paola Ronzino and Nicola Amico, ARIADNE Plus Paola Ronzino and Nicola Amico, ARIADNE Plus 12.45-13.30 Berlagezaal 2 12.45-14.00 Berlagezaal 2 13.30-15.00 Berlagezaal 1 14.00-15.30 Berlagezaal 1 Critical Cartographies Mediated Activism Liat Savin Ben Shoshan and Sigal Barnir, Chair: Armina Pilav Chair: Marc Schoonderbeek 14.00-15.30 Room K & J 13.30-15.00 Room K & J 15.30-15.45 Berlagezaal 2 15.00-15.30 Berlagezaal 2 15.45-17.15 Berlagezaal 1 15.30-17.00 Berlagezaal 1 Memory and the Spectacle Media Traces and the Non-Memorial Mariacristina D’Oria, Eliyahu Keller and Eytan Mann, Ahmad Beydoun, Ecem Saricayir, Faye Mullen Delia Duong Ba Wendel Chair: Armina Pilav 17.15-18.30 Berlagezaal 1 17.30-18.00 Berlagezaal 1 Paola Ronzino and Nicola Amico, Ariel Caine and Transversal Methods in Research’ 18.00-19.30 Berlagezaal 2 Moderators: Heidi Sohn and Marc Schoonderbeek 18.30-19.30 BKExpo; 20.00-22.00 Conference Dinner Café de V, Delft CLUI, Nicolás Kisic Aguirre, Omar Mismar, Faye Mullen, Corridor Chair: Gabriel Schwake Session 8 Mariacristina D’Oria Digital Archaeology, Virtual Narratives: The Case of Lifta Eliyahu Keller and Eytan Mann 272 273 Nevada National Security Site Moreover, architecture, when operating on post-war spaces, has to deal with very peculiar space-time transitional The relation between war and architecture conditions. In fact, of whatever scale or has always been characterized by a strong nature, war gives rise to a real short-circuit, producing lacerated territories whose — the permanence of architecture normal functions and destinations are — is strongly threatened by war, which temporarily or, in some cases, permanently erodes and demolishes its physical suspended. This phenomenon does not has represented a powerful resource for the design and the production of theory, pushing which inherit deep scars and traumatized architecture to seek innovative spatial and landscapes but also extend to all those technological solutions and leading to the areas that are occupied by the military infrastructure of the territory, including compose the architectural tradition.1 for instance: military bases, training therefore, must not be exclusively traced camps, testing, and war production sites. back to the phenomenology of destruction It is an articulated and diffused system and ruin, but should also be recognized as whose spaces are subjected to an operation an inexhaustible stimulus for architecture, of exclusion and disappearance, an archipelago of inaccessible, segregated and heavily guarded islands removed, more or less permanently, from community access bordering on the miraculous’.2 and use. ‘The enterprise of destruction 274 275 to highlight how war’s destructive and disappearance’3 writes Virilio, who states fascinating power has been reinterpreted also that ‘in reality, the art of war participates within a progressive process of mixing in that aesthetic of disappearance which is probably the essence of all history’.4 settings. The Nevada National Security Furthermore, post-war Site, related to the war phase of training, landscapes, whether urban or natural, shows how the atomic detonations have are characterized by a ‘militarisation not been reinterpreted and spectacularized only of space but also of time’5 which to attract tourists while Kusturica seems to be crystallized, fragmented, villages, focusing on the time phase of suspended between the expectation of an intervention that could bring them to a new can be exploited as a pretext to invent an condition of normality and the traumatic ideal future. a transitional phase from destruction to reconstruction, from contamination to Moreover, these post-war territories The Desert is considered a place cannot be completely understood through suitable for extravagances. I am not a chronological reconstruction, but referring only to those of Bessie should rather be interpreted as a complex Johnson or Curtis Howe Springer, system characterized by the coexistence but also to the dune-buggy fanatics, of different time-space fragments closely solitary self-hitch hikers, seekers of intertwined with one another. legendary gold mines; and to those Inscribed within a context where the normal condition is the transition, the proposed advanced missile systems paper investigates the paradoxical ways in and modelled gigantic earth sculptures. which these space-time short-circuits have been capitalized and introduced within the sightings, or considered as such, and the cartography of everyday life through the pioneering conversation with the green use of the entertainment narratives. Taking men of the planet Venus took place advantage from war imaginary fascination, in the Mojave. In a landscape where widely diffused by media throughout history, and from the potentials to operate would not be a “desert”), everything is in many cases on a real tabula rasa, a new possible and therefore everything can 6 rhetoric of the project has been developed, happen. capable of interweaving narrative design with to reactivate the transitional time- Mojave Desert, an environment where them, in some cases, into shows capable isolation, exceptionality, aridity, and of attracting a growing number of visitors, distance give life to an extreme landscape who become increasingly shameless and that has represented, paradoxically, an impudent, attempting to cross inviolable places and penetrate the most remote experimentation, recording the military secrets. proliferation of projects characterized Through the analysis of two case by a constant oscillation between utopia- studies, the Nevada National Security Site Landing in the Mojave Desert, July 2019. Source: Mariacristina D’Oria. and the villages established by the Serbian It is within this context that on January 11, 1951 the United States The crater-scarred landscape of the Nevada Test Site. Source: Photo courtesy of Nevada National Department of Energy established the Security Site. 276 277 Nevada Proving Grounds (currently January 27, 1951 with the atmospheric called the Nevada National Security Site), blast of the bomb Able and ended on subtracting 3500 km2 of desert landscape September 23, 1992, with the detonation and converting it into a huge laboratory for of an underground nuclear test, Divider. testing nuclear weapons. In this period 1021 nuclear devices were