New Zidonians at the Benaki Museum, Athens

Articles here and here about the  'New Zidonians' in the 14F/21GR exhibition



New Zidonians Story (tracing paper, ink, laser cut-outs)

The New Zidonians | Where everything was reversible and everything was temporary

A post by Ethel Baraona Pohl in her blog about draftwoks* project New Zidonians
You can follow the link below:
http://dprbcn.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/the-new-zidonians/

"In Greeklish" article

An article by Panos Dragonas in the current issue of Architektonika Themata 45/2011:
“In Greeklish” 8/8: Η ανανέωση του σχεδιαστικού ήθους
featuring draftworks* project: the New Zidonians
You can see the article here

New Zidonians update

Some new updated pictures from the (always ongoing!) 'New Zidonians' project

New Zidonians

A new model from the ongoing New Zidonians project for the MIT: 'envisioning peace'

New Zidonians

Some drawings of the New Zidonians' fictitious structures. In relation to the project that was awarded an honorable mention at the 'Just Jerusalem' competition of MIT.

New Zidonians, Honorable mention, MIT competition

The New Zidonians
Christos Papastergiou, Christiana Ioannou (Architects, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL)
The modern story of Jerusalem is a story of borders. In this submission, borders are investigated not as a division, but as a spatial structure of negotiation. This project proposes borders that would not divide space into two distinct and sovereign states, but rather would have to connect, to bring together two different communities in a single homeland. As Michael Sorkin describes:
‘Such a condominium would form a ‘third state’ defined as the territory of cooperation between Israel and Palestine‘
This ‘Third State,’ which lays at the heart of the narrative offered in this entry, is what we need to project in architectural projects and visions. But few have tried to formulate its basic dimensions.. What would the spatial characteristics of a `Third State be? What forms would its public spaces take? How it would realize a status of a coexistence of singularities in space? This entry answers these questions.The ‘New Zidonians’ is a narrative and a project of a Jerusalem’s imagined future. This future forms neither a vision nor a nightmare. It rather tries to imagine a future of a Jerusalem that has accepted its differential character and permit a space were the differences would coexist in an immanent relationship.

New Zidonians, M.I.T. competition, honorable mention

Get your own - Open publication

The New Zidonians is an architectural story. A fictional narrative involving the palestian-israeli conflict as an architectural category and speculations about its future. The narrator is Rajiya a little girl trapped in an inbetween condition in the conflict. Rajiya narrates the story of her childhood and her people the New Zidonians who have established their own peculiar state on the complicated land leftover by the conflicting parts. The project was submitted by draftworks!architects to the international competition Just Jerusalem organized in 2007 by M.I.T. and was awarded an honorable mention