This proposal stands on the understanding of Peace as a difficult balance supported on a complex construction of social and political facts. The context supplied by Just Jerusalem makes us to question the legitimacy of any kind of foreign initiative, even more when it’s inevitable to relate the origin of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict with the intervention of external powers.
In addition, as the peak of an iceberg, Jerusalem is just the most visible and probably the most problematic face of a conflict between entire nations in a more extended territory than this particular urban situation. Under this perspective, for any infrastructural proposal, even physical, civic or economical, it is necessary a pseudo-pragmatic act, always in danger of being conduced by an assistancialist voluntarism trying to remediate urgent problems, bypassing a real solution.
To assume this useless condition allow us to realize that most of the proposals we can place in Jerusalem will constitute symbolic infrastructure, despite its pragmatic consequences. It opens potentials of understanding architecture as physical facts that expose possibilities of social, political and cultural criticism, which can simultaneously generate renovated illusion and aspirations.
This proposal tends to focus on the system of cultural, religious, technological, economical and political references that constructs our contemporary reality, using Jerusalem as its center, and to explore hybrid territories between politics, technology, infrastructure and art, to contribute to the basis needed for the auto-determination of the destiny of the people involved in this conflict; or, at least, to criticize our contemporary reality.
