@irit-katz
Studying spaces of conflict, displacement, refuge, and environmental changes and the poetics and poetics of inhabitation. Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Christ's College.
Situated Imagination and Imaginaries of Urban Futures
CfP for a conference in Cambridge
17 July 2026
Abstract submitted by 3 March
Join us in Cambridge to trace the vital lines that connect the world we can imagine to the world we build.
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Situated Imagination and Imaginaries of Urban Futures
CfP for a conference in Cambridge
17 July 2026
Abstract submitted by 3 March
Join us in Cambridge to trace the vital lines that connect the world we can imagine to the world we build.
See👇
Gaza, Stripped: Displacement, Destruction, and Necro-Humanitarianism - my analysis on the spatial violence in Gaza and beyond and the risk of its continuation in other ways - now on @eflux.bsky.social
Thank you @alucidwake.bsky.social for your invaluable support
www.e-flux.com/architecture...
Gaza, Stripped: Displacement, Destruction, and Necro-Humanitarianism - my analysis on the spatial violence in Gaza and beyond and the risk of its continuation in other ways - now on @eflux.bsky.social
Thank you @alucidwake.bsky.social for your invaluable support
www.e-flux.com/architecture...
Book cover of Fortress Power: Hostile Designs and the Politics of Spatial Control by Derek S. Denman. Detail of archival architectural drawing of star-shaped fortress. Title in bold black across middle; author above and subtitle at bottom.
Book cover of Opposition by Imitation: The Economics of Italian Anti-Mafia Activism by Christina Jerne. Title is slanted letters with an I in the first and last word extended to resemble slots through which euro coins are passing. Gold background.
Important new books release today:
-Fortress Power by Derek S. Denman.
"A fascinating account of the centrality of the fortress."
— @irit-katz.bsky.social
-Opposition by Imitation by Christina Jerne.
"Radically new directions for thinking about social movements."
—Kevin McDonald
Israel is falsely designating Gaza areas as empty in order to bomb them -
www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-...
IDF officer admitted that the crowds around the ‘humanitarian' sites were managed with live fire: 'The army treated civilians like suspects entering a combat zone'
Only now they admit it, after blaming Hamas while gaslighting the international community, incl the US
www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...
An urgent short piece on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza from an urban studies / urban planning perspective. Written by my colleague and good friend Irit Katz.
Lethal humanitarianism: why violence at Gaza aid centres should not come as a surprise
My short piece at @theconversation.com
I've discussed parts @refugeestudies.bsky.social in January
Now its more horrific than anyone then expected
Please share
theconversation.com/lethal-human...
