Spatial and Temporal Practices as Means of Inter-community Engagement in Divided Cities

Summary

Our everyday spatial practices are dynamically present and active in our daily lives, enabling us to express creativity and challenging our intellect in the way we construct our identities in the public arena. Communities in divided cities have unique means of expression that capture these challenges and emotions and allow reflective critique to emerging ideas and cultural matters. Such performance and practices are inherited in the cultural heritage and informed by the historical memories of the place. Based on these premises, several principles are developed that provide a basis for public arts and visual performance practices in divided cities, that implicitly and creatively note issues of division on the basis of identity, class, affordability, or ideology as progressive practices of encouraging debate and engagement rather than being subjects of conflict. This project provides an interdisciplinary framework for intercommunity engagement, using architecture and spatial analysis as means for reshaping and understanding the landscape of conciliation in post-conflict situations.

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