Since our last reading revolved around resistance, I found an interesting article that can help us understand how people employ tactics in order to survive and resist in their daily lives.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/12/palestine-gaza-reconstruction--siege-new-technology.html#
There is this engineer in Gaza who used "organic architecture" to help rebuild houses that have been destroyed in the war over the summer. Due to the shortages of building materials, the architect had to employ what is available around him in order to help reconstructed Gaza, thus, in a way, he implicitly resisted the hegemonic system of the Israeli borders that control what and how much of these construction materials will go through. After all the "need is the mother of invention". After reading Hamdan-Saliba and Fenster's articles, as well as Young's article, I started realizing that some of the actions we take in our daily lives is in fact resistance, even though we are unaware of it. As long as there is this defiance to a hegemonic culture, the act or tactic can be considered resistance. So I strongly believe that this architect is resisting. This is just an idea that I am putting out there...
Also I think the concept of organic agriculture is probably aimed at social spatial and environmental justice. I don't know much about it, but I can see it being employed to help societies living in spaces use them in an efficient way, without having to relocate people, or destroying the environment.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/12/palestine-gaza-reconstruction--siege-new-technology.html#
There is this engineer in Gaza who used "organic architecture" to help rebuild houses that have been destroyed in the war over the summer. Due to the shortages of building materials, the architect had to employ what is available around him in order to help reconstructed Gaza, thus, in a way, he implicitly resisted the hegemonic system of the Israeli borders that control what and how much of these construction materials will go through. After all the "need is the mother of invention". After reading Hamdan-Saliba and Fenster's articles, as well as Young's article, I started realizing that some of the actions we take in our daily lives is in fact resistance, even though we are unaware of it. As long as there is this defiance to a hegemonic culture, the act or tactic can be considered resistance. So I strongly believe that this architect is resisting. This is just an idea that I am putting out there...
Also I think the concept of organic agriculture is probably aimed at social spatial and environmental justice. I don't know much about it, but I can see it being employed to help societies living in spaces use them in an efficient way, without having to relocate people, or destroying the environment.
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