'Jerusalem Line' is inscribed in a scenario for a futre of a peaceful Jerusalem, shared by Israelis and Palestinians.
In this scenario, new development must balance the disproportionate urban condition and common grounds must be established for intercultural communication.
Moreover, in this scenario, the Jerusalem Barrier (The Wall), which divides the city and its people, will be obsolete.
'Jerusalem Line' suggests a contribution to a post-conflict discourse which aims at developing a shared Jerusalem, including the gradual change of attitudes and increase of a mutual Jewish-Palestinian trust and confidence.
TRACE: The project has traced The Wall as an urban motif of violent conflict and polarization. 'Jerusalem Line' proposes to reverse this rigid logic.
It has also traced the tendency of the arts as a language for non-violent dialogue about conflictive issues and accross identity groups. 'Jerusalem Line' cultivates this potential: Art can be the new communicative and intercultural nerve of Jerusalem.
REVERSE: 'Jerusalem Line' models the Wall line and the Wall concrete elements into a new urban dynamics of the shared Jerusalem of the future.
The line is transformed into a tram line, reversing the inhabitor of mobility into a promoter of mobility. The elements are transformed into seven tram stations, reversing the architecture of segregation into places of assembly which frame a new communicative culture on a daily basis.
The field around the line is porpsed to accommodate an art festival, reviersing the non-communicative urban condition into a trans-cultural dialogue.
GROW: These are strategic interferences in Jerusalem, engaging in a process of development. From the three interventions on a new urban situation will grow.
The new infrastructure will attract investment in the decaying field of East Jerusalem and spawn new development. The art festival will establish a temporary space for a communicative culture, reaching across group identities and creating new spatial relationships to bond the city as one organism.
