Spatial Justice for Palestine Network
The Spatial Justice for Palestine Network (NL) is an emergent collective of architects, researchers, and educators addressing the complicity, silence and knowledge gaps within spatial disciplines in the face of architectural erasure in Palestine. Formed in 2023, the network responds to the lack of critical discourse on architecture as both a weapon of war and a tool of resistance. Through public seminars and workshops the group interrogates the historical and ongoing role of architecture in processes of domicide, colonization, and displacement. By engaging students, professionals, and institutions, the project questions the politics of reconstruction and challenges dominant narratives that obscure the power structures embedded in spatial interventions. Our research asks: How can architects critically engage with the destruction and reconstruction of Palestine in ways that resist complicity and foster spatial justice? The project repositions architectural knowledge as an active agent in addressing violence and oppression, while foregrounding local agency, collective memory, and emancipatory practices. This initiative contributes new insights into architecture’s ethical and political responsibilities amid unfolding crises.