Malkit Shoshan

Malkit Shoshan is the founding director of the Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory (FAST). An architectural think-tank based in Amsterdam and NY. FAST projects investigate the relationship between the built environment, architecture, urban planning and human rights.

Shoshan is the author and the mapmaker of the award-winning book Atlas of Conflict: Israel-Palestine (Uitgeverij 010, 2010) and Village: One Land Two Systems and Platform Paradise (Damiani Editore, 2014). Her additional publications include Zoo, or the letter Z, just after Zionism (NAiM, 2012), Drone. UNMANNED: Architecture and Security Series. (DPR-Barcelona, 2016), Spaces of Conflict. Footprint, TU Delft Architecture Theory Journal (JAP SAM Books, 2017), UN Peacekeeping Missions in Urban Environments. The Legacy of UNMIL (FAST-CIC NYU, 2018).

In 2016, Shoshan was the curator of the Dutch Pavilion at The Venice Architecture Biennale with the exhibition BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions. The work exhibited in the pavilion is the subject of her forthcoming book BLUE: Peacekeeping Architecture (Actar, 2019). Shoshan studied architecture at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and the IUAV – the University of Venice. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU and the Area Head of Art, Design, and the Public Domain MDes program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Her research and design work has been published in newspapers and journals including the New York Times, The Guardian, NRC, Haaretz, Volume, Surface, Frame, Metropolis, and exhibited in venues including the UN Headquarters in NYC (2016), Venice Architecture Biennale (2002, 2008, 2016), Experimenta (2011), Het Nieuwe Instituut (2014), The Istanbul Design Biennale (2014), Israeli Center for Digital Art (2012), and The Netherlands Architecture Institute (2007).