(UN)just Peace

urban performance and audiotour, 2018

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(UN)just Peace is a decolonial architecture tour that explores The Hague as a battlefield. Since the 19th century, the Dutch capital has defined itself through narratives of urban and economic development tied to international diplomacy and peace - yet the city’s prosperity is insidiously linked to the economy of war. By tracing the relation between planning and ideology around contemporary landmarks in the International Zone of The Hague, “(UN)just Peace” re-stages the city’s built environment to unveil the military economies, technologies, and territories connected to these architectures. From the horizon of borders, to the terrain we tread on, from the ether where we are mined for our data, up to the silence of outer-space, the tour elucidates on the aim for total militarization perpetuated by the propaganda of security. The first event functioned as a platform for advocacy for Stop Wapenhandel, critically addressing the hyper-securitization of spaces within the European Union.

Watch the presentation of the project as part of “Towards a Reparations Ecology” at MAO - Museum of Architecture and Design, Lubljiana, February 2019 here