With the aim of digging into various disciplines in order to understand social, cultural and spatial phenomena that are determining the shapes of our world, we have come together with Partizan Publik and Dirk Jan Visser and traveled for three weeks through the emerging nations of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia.

 

  We have discovered similar processes as the ones we have found in our projects on Israel Palestine:

 

  Borders transformation; forced migration; refugee camps; ghost towns; mass destruction of urban landscape; new towns; top-down agendas for a homogeneous identity and population configuration within the different borders; a top-down national dream for the re-implementation of a greater historical (territorial) moment;  diasporas’ influences and traumas; the reconstruction of new identities and national cultural ethos; all simultaneously being sucked into the “glamour” of the west’s culture and economy. 

 

  We have witnessed new colonization and accompanying destruction happening in the emerging national landscape of the South Caucasus, not by Empires but by the new-free-global-economy; western firms are the new superpower in the region, hijacking the local economy, natural and human resources.

 

  Our project in the South Caucasus is one more step in the development of a wider understanding of how nations are being built and what are the territorial and humanitarian conflicts that are accompany it.

 

  The project will consist of a wide scope of social, cultural and territorial research, workshops and exhibitions.