DAAR is an architectural studio and art residency programme based in Beit Sahour, Palestine. Their work combines conceptual speculations and pragmatic spatial interventions, discourse and collective learning. The residency has gathered together architects, artists, activists, urbanists, film-makers, and curators to work collectively on the subjects of politics and architecture. Their practice explores possibilities for the reuse, subversion and profanation of actual structures of domination: from evacuated military bases to the transformation of refugee camps, from uncompleted governmental structures to the remains of destroyed villages.
DAAR's book Architecture after Revolution (Sternberg, Berlin 2014) is an invitation to rethink today’s struggles for justice and equality not only from the historical perspective of revolution, but also from that of a continued struggle for decolonisation. Their artist practice has received numerous awards and grants. See www.decolonizing.ps