Architect
Frankfurt
Link: www.polarinertia.com/israeli01.htm
Submission: “The political aspects of mobile houses in Israeli settlements in the West Bank: One Settler’s Story”
"Since 2002, I've been curious about small scale portable buildings in relation to its social and spatial context. How do you claim space as a place for your house? How do you make a place your house and how do you make the place your place, home and your locality to identify with? And how do you do all this with a small, mobile and portable building? It seems that the mere act of locating a portable building at a certain location generated already contextual, territorial and local meanings; especially when it remains at place and occurs as a member of clustered communities of several portable housing units… as it is happening in many Israeli settlements in the West Bank."
Tülay Günes was awarded a grant by the Fulbright Program and began her graduate studies in the Department of Architecture at Ball State University in 2002. She presented the paper “Temporary and Mobile: Turning points for architectural practice and education” at the 2003 international meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture in Helsinki, Finland. To conduct field research for her master’s thesis, titled “The political aspects of mobile houses in Israeli settlements in the West Bank,” Ms. Günes traveled to Israel and the West Bank in late 2004 and early 2005; financial support was provided by the Center for Peace & Conflict Studies at Ball State University. She resides in Frankfurt, Germany.
393,000 Israeli settlers in occupied Palestinian territories
Sarah al-Ansary, “The Question of Settlements,” aljazeera.net, December 4, 2003, HYPERLINK "http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/0761B1FF-AC1B-4969-BE65-731D454BF983.htm" (accessed February 1, 2006).