Welcome to the West Bank - New conversation. Old Conflict. (SXSW15)

People's rights are absolute & universal,

either equality or nothing! -

Ronnie Barkan

Navit.Desert Born.

Israeli.Designer.

HUGE.

WELCOME TO THE WEST BANKNew conversations. Old conflict.

The conflict is the Status Quo.

I was 17 when Israel signed a peace treaty

with Jordan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Jordan_peace_treaty

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Jordan_peace_treaty

I was 19 when Bus 18 exploded at Jerusalem

Central bus station.

I was 22 when the first war broke out with Gaza.

Creating Israel While Erasing Palestine.

The Atlas Of The Conflict: Malkit Shoshan.

A Reality.

Although numbers show us that Palestinian losses are enormous in comparison with the Israeli ones, it does not

suffice to simply make a comparison of that kind. The point is not to achieve an equality of losses. The point is to oppose

the destruction in all of its forms in the name of a livable mode of co- habitation.

-Judith Butler-

Weekly Report.05-10 March, 2015

6Palestinian civilians killed

14Wounded

127Incursions were conducted

in the West Bank

215Palestinian civilians

arrested

4Universities were raided

100Houses raided

Others In The Space.

The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights

Palestinian Center for Human Rights

A legal center for freedom of movement

Israeli soldiers talk about the occupied territories

A magazine that provides fresh, on-the-ground reporting &

analysis of events in Israel & Palestine.

A collective of Israeli and international photographers, who believe that

photography is a vehicle for social & political change.

No Magical Thinking.

Another. Summer.

War.

Signs of unprecedented hate on social media.

Cultivate respect & change the dialogue between Israelis and palestine

about the conflict.

The Challenge.

I’m Working On A Game.

-Katie Salen-

‘A system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules,

that results in quantifiable outcome.’

The Rules:1. A Game Is A System2. It Is Artificial3. It Has Players4. It Has Conflict5. It Has Rules6. Quantifiable Outcome

But My Game Is A Serious Game.

-Mary Flanagan-

‘Games designed for artistic, political, and social critique or intervention, in order to propose ways of

understanding larger cultural issues as well as the games themselves.’

Case Studies That Generated Change.

Foldit.Creating a major breakthrough in the AIDS research field

RecycleBank.Gamification to incentivize recycling

FreeRice.Feeding the hungry by quizzing the intellect

SPENT.Online game about surviving poverty

ONE MAPS. TWO STORIES.WELCOME TO THE WEST BANK

Israel Palestine

Population: Mixed

272,181

HifaPopulation: Palestinian

126,132

Nablus

Overview.

1. Played on your phone.

3. Historical facts about land and its original owners.

2. A user chooses to walk in foreign city to in order to learn about the life in it.

Al- Mas’udiyya

Was a Palestinian viallge in the jaffa Subdistrict.

It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War

in Mandatory Palestine on December 25, 1947. It was

located 5 km northeast of Jaffa, situated 1.5 km

south of the al-'Awja River. The village was

previously known as Summayl.

WELCOME.

Population: Palestinian

WELCOME: A SILWAN STORY

Silwan

A village near the natural spring outside southeast of the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem since the

medieval period. It lies in East Jerusalem and became an exclusively Palestinian neighborhood after the

1948 war.


5. Statistical Data visualized.

WELCOME.

Yotam Merav, 14 Kibbuts Zikim

A testimony on rocket attack- 2015

I was at the incident in which Tzlil and Yarden were injured. We were in third grade and were playing Frisbee on the grass. I saw

the Qassam in the air, flying toward us. No one knew what to do. We didn’t know whether to run or to stay where we were. We had about

three or four seconds to respond and we simply began to run.

“4. Personal stories & testimonies

6. Physical barrier such as checkpoints mapped virtually on to the map of a foreign city to visualize life their.

Israeli Teenagers.14 and up.

Youth movement.School curriculum.

The Audience.

1. Lack Of Empathy.2. Inability To Experience Numbers.

3. Information Is Unaccessible4. Social Media Enabling Dissemination Of Hate.

Lack Of Empathy & Ignorance To The Suffering Of Others.

Problem 1:

EmpathyIs the experience of understanding another person's condition from their perspective. It is making less distinct the differences

between the self and the other.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/empathy

https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/empathy

"Precisely because a living being may die, it is necessary to care for that being so that it may live. Only under conditions

in which the loss would matter does the value of the life appear. Thus, grievability is a presupposition for

the life that matters"

-Judith Butler-

Role play.

Silwan is home to a large and largely poor Palestinian population that

is gravely underserved by state and municipal bodies. There are a total

of eight elementary schools. There are zero public playgrounds. It is

also inhabited by a small-but-visible Jewish settler population

supported by Israeli governmental funds and services. Houses and

other structures in Silwan are built without permits, because

Palestinians are virtually never granted building permits You have

been held 30 days in solitary confinement, and after being beaten with

a chair, held taunted with a knife, forced to stay awake, and otherwise

abused, you are released from prison, but your punishment continues:

you are under house arrest, indefinitely, and is not allowed to go to

school. You are afraid that you will miss the end of his 9th grade year.

Residence: Silwan, East Jerusalem

Name: Suhaib Alawar

Age: 14.5

Select


3

You are interrogated because of a suspision of teaching boys in your

village how to build Molotov Cocktails, which you deny. During the

interrogation you are kept in a room that stinks of feces and rotten food.

You are hit with a chair and threatened with a knife. You are also told

that if you did not admit to the charges against you, that you would be

"taken to an electric chair to help you." You-

A Silwan Story

3 of 16

or


Admit to the charges & realised home

Deny you are guilty & stay for 10 days.

Information Is Hidden & Inaccessible

Problem 2:

Visualizing information.

Quantitative Qualitative

First Day In A UN School In Ramallah.

A report about segregated roads

Data To Expose Numbers.

The wait at this checkpoint is 2.5 hours.FIXED CHECPOINTS

FLYING CHECKPOINTS

AS OF 2014

AS OF 2013

WITHIN THE WEST BANK

STAFFED REGULARLY

IN H2 (HEBRON)

99

256

59 3317

WELCOME.

Data To Tell Stories.

WELCOME.

Palestinians under the ageof 18 are detained in the

occupied territories annually. Suhaib Alawar, 14

Read his story.

700

The Inability To Experience Numbers.

Problem 3:

‘It is always possible to listen to such numbers and set them aside, or listen to the numbers but hear something other

than numbers, or listen to the numbers and let them function as numbers with no referential force.’

-Judith Butler-

Juxtapositioning 2 maps.

AUDIENCE DISTANCE REALITY

Bridging The Gap.

Getting your location

WELCOME. WELCOME.

Jabotinsky 3, Tel Aviv

Explore Palestinian cities

Change location

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126,132

Nablusسلبان

Start Walking

Population: Mixed

272,181

Hifaהפיח

WELCOME.


Start Walking

Hebron (H1)Population:

126,132

600

ןורבחPopulation:

Jewish

Hebron (H2)

WELCOME.


Change location


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Ramallah

BeithLehem

Jericho

Jenin

Mayor : Vera Baboun

Mayor : Hassan Saleh

Mayor : Janet Mikhail

Population: 25,000 | Palestinian



12

300

Mayor : Hadem RidaPopulation : 260,004 | Palestinian

Filter by Location

Start walking

Start walking0.4 Miles left300

You have reached Qalandia checkpoint.

WELCOME.

The wait at this checkpoint is 2.5 hours.

Kalandia is the main checkpoint between the

northern West Bank and Jerusalem. The

checkpoint is used by the Israeli military to control

Palestinian access to East Jerusalem and Israel.


WELCOME.


Start now


WELCOME.


Wait inline Take a detour Skip & go home


WELCOME.


Wait inline Take a detour Skip & go home

WELCOME.

WELCOME TO THE WEST BANK

The West Bank checkpoint system is intended to monitor Palestinian movement by foot or by

vehicles. The system isolates Palestinians from each other, separating communities and making the entry into towns and cities within the West

Bank almost inaccessible.

WELCOME:

Al- Mas’udiyya

Was a Palestinian viallge in the jaffa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War

in Mandatory Palestine on December 25, 1947. It was located 5 km northeast of Jaffa, situated 1.5 km

south of the al-'Awja River. The village was previously known as Summayl.

WELCOME.


Social Media Enabling Dissemination Of Hate.

Problem 4:

Enabling sharing & documenting in

realtime.

Age: 14.5

WELCOME: Vines of the day

Vines from Checkpoint

Kalandia vines

Road 443

Huwwara

Huwwara

a-Za’ayem

Ariel

03.12.2015

Muhamad Chamon3440 loops 24m

This is what my morning looked like

34 21

0

172

Oramerda • 2 minuts agoGentlemen just don't shell schools were children and women take refugeeven if there are alegedly 1000 reasons to do it

Jonathan Byron • 5 minutes agoIsrael mass murders, and if you say something you are antisemite, shame on them.

Age: 14.5

WELCOME: Vines of the day

Vines from Checkpoint

Kalandia vines

Road 443

Huwwara

Huwwara

a-Za’ayem

Ariel

03.12.2015Teddy PollakNatanya

My Badges

My Tasks

My Mileage

Completed

Hebron Jenin

9

3

3.9 Miles

Pending

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Ramallah

Change Dialogue.

Making Information Transparent & Digestible

Increasing Knowledge& Awareness

Transforming The Language

More InformedConversation

EMPATHY

Takeaways.

Data Is Imperative.

But Data Is Also Arguable.

Motivation Is A Challenge.

Language.

I Would Love Your Feedback.

Welcome to the West Bank - New conversation. Old Conflict. (SXSW15)

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