Ein Hud

Architecture and planning are often used to commit crimes against humanity. You, the architecture community, already helped us with alternative masterplans to counter this sitiuation in Ein Hud. Now, we need you and others again to help us with money to construct real changes.

Your donation will help us realizing in 2008 a series of concrete activities in Ein Hud, a community of internal Palestinian refugees in Israel. These will show that architecture matters and that alternative planning can give a different, human, solution.

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50$ donation will buy us an hour of legal support for the final push of the alternative master plan

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70$ donation gets you a Golden Heart t-shirt or bag

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100$ donation will help us plant a fruit tree in the village

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250$ donation will help us build the Golden Heart pavilion, the first community structure in Ein Hud

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300$ donation will help finance a one day workshop in the village for its children and its women

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1000$ donation will buy you a table in the best Palestinian restaurant in Israel during the opening event

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X$ goodwill donation are welcome

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The Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory is a Non-for-Profit architecture office based in the Netherlands. FAST is dedicated at exposing and countering situations of human rights violations cause by the abuse of architecture and planning tools in Israel/Palestine and around the world. Please donate by wiring money on our bank account, or visit our website for further information on our action: www.seamlessterritory.org/einhud.

PayPal: www.seamlessterritory.org/donate contact: einhud@seamlessterritory.org

In the past three years, we have developed the One Land Two Systems project. The project aims at exposing the situation of the unrecognized Palestinian villages in Israel, and at the same time finding alternative planning solution to one of these villages, Ein Hud.

The project started with an international architecture and design competition for the development of an alternative masterplan for the village. It was a huge success; we have received more then 100 plans from more then 30 countries. The winners of the competition came together with FAST and with the community of Ein Hud to develop further a sustainable solution for the village.

After a long and politically sensitive process, we have now finalized the plan. The villagers love it as it gives shape to their dreams. The plan is now used as a negotiation document with the authorities; to have Ein Hud fully recognized by the State. In addition, our master plan is on a verge of a breakthrough with no precedent since the establishment of Israel; the military area that is now located inside and around the village is likely to be transformed into the tourism area we envisioned in our plan.

This whole process, which started with an international collaboration of many creative people, has remarkable results, beyond our expectations. It serves as a model for a new type of architecture practice, in which issues of community, sustainability and politics take center stage.

In the summer of 2008, we want to finalize the project with a series of interventions. We will lobby and generate concrete cultural, economical and spatial changes in Ein Hud.

Download tourist map - A future plan for Ein Hud