Encounter at the exhibition Dissensus: Legislation, Planning, Architecture (Hebrew)

Encounter with Dr. Ronit Levine-Schnur

Dissensus implies constant friction between values, interests and cultures. The projects, largely produced especially for the exhibition, were created by architects and planners in collaboration with artists from the fields of visual culture, plastic art, film and music.

The works tend to issues concerning the highly centralized Israeli planning system and its favoring of security needs over civic and professional agendas. They present a maze of conflicts between systems and actors, to highlight the friction that the consensus tends to obscure. Are existing planning methods relevant within the current economic-political climate? Is it possible to move from consumer discourse to ethical discourse on common civil responsibility and solidarity?

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Michael Sfard is a lawyer specializing in international human rights law and war laws (especially occupation law).
He represents human rights organization, peace organization, Israeli and Palestinian activists and disadvantaged communities in Israel and the West Bank.

Prof. Oren Yiftachel is head of the School for Urban Studies and cofounder of the academic program for Urban Planning at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba.
His latest book, Power and Land: From Ethnocracy to Creeping Apartheid in Israel/Palestine was published by Resling (2021, Hebrew).
Active in peace and human rights organizations, he recently joined the founders of the Palestinian-Israeli movement Land for All (Eretz Lekulam).

Dr. Ronnen Ben-Arie teaches at the Technion Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Haifa and at the Department for Political Studies at the Open University.
A former post-doc fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions, Haifa University.
His research focuses on contested urban spaces and colonialist settlement in Israel/Palestine. His book Shared Life to Co-Resistance in Historic Palestine (with Marcelo Svirsky) was published in 2018.

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Spaces are limited.
Participation in the encounter includes entrance ticket to the Museum (not including the exhibition Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective)

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Image: Ronnen Ben-Arie, Alexander (Sandy) Kedar, Orwa Switat, From: Absentees Property
Photo: Ohad Milstein