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Agamben’s urbanism of exception: Jerusalem’s border mechanics and biopolitical strongholds

This output in a high impact journal, represents a more recent development of my enquiries into a philosophical approaches of spatial production and urbanism emerging from several teaching in DPU and cross faculty initiatives (Urban Lab, Bartlett Research Exchange) as well as outside collaboration with (CAN, SCIBE). This works opens up several explorations revealing a transversal architectural and spatial reading of Agamben’s philosophy: the deactivation of devices of power in the interest of a “coming community” that is present but still unrealized. As such Agamben’s philosophical enquiries are now researched in details (in the case of West Bank in collaboration with ETH and Bangkok with CAN and SCIBE) contribute to the evolution of optimistic rediscovery of design and architecture’s potentiality, both methodologically and conceptually, especially when applied to the conflicted environments in the complex, latent and malleable urban dimensions of the global South.