The Spatial Justice for Palestine Network (SJ4PN, NL) is an emerging collective of architects, researchers, and educators addressing the complicity, silence, and knowledge gaps within spatial disciplines in the face of architectural erasure in Palestine. Formed in 2023, the network responds to the lack of critical discourse on architecture as both a weapon of war and a tool of resistance. Through public seminars and workshops, the group interrogates the historical and ongoing role of architecture in processes of domicide, colonization, ecocide, and displacement.
Through public seminars and pedagogical initiatives, SJ4PN advances a much-needed interrogation of architecture’s role not only as a material condition of conflict but also as a site of resistance and re-imagination. Their work foregrounds the ethical responsibilities of spatial practitioners in times of crisis, asking how architectural knowledge might contribute to more just, situated, and accountable forms of reconstruction.
These seminars are organized as part of a larger knowledge dissemination solidarity action being developed by an international group of committed spatial and/or cultural practitioners based in the Netherlands. The group includes Arna Mačkić, Lada Hršak, Ali T. As’ad, René Boer, Nick Axel, Saja Amro, Saskia van Stein, and Nama’a Qudah.