about  | planning  | media  | news  | donate  | contact  | links  | home    about us FAST (the Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory) takes architecture, planning and territory as the basis for a strategy to overcome the conflict of causality. To this end, it is necessary to explain the three levels on which we operate: the situation as found, the issues at stake, and the strategy to be undertaken. FAST doesn't intend to sketch a path that needs to be followed, leaving its implementation to the goodwill of promises. Rather, it acts, finding methods to implement the legal and the possible, localising an agenda beyond feeble, fancy and formless architectural research, mapping and design. If there's a future for architecture and urbanism in this and similar apartheid-like situations - and the issue of imposed unrecognition as described in this dossier also currently affects the Roma gypsies in Europe, the Mapuche in Chile, and the Kalahari Bushmen in Botswana, among others - it will be one in which research, design and activism strive through jurisdiction for seamless territories and universal human rights. To facilitate an emanated environment with political and ideological conflicts we have learned that we need to bring into play various disciplines: law, geography, journalism, activism, media etc. We need to mobilize national and international public opinion and to create public debate toward the issue of human rights violations through planning.