We want to share some of the interesting aspects of this project from the My ideal Jerusalem team.

During January we conducted focus groups with secular and religious, children and grown-ups, Palestinian and Israeli people living in Jerusalem. As a result we came up with some core issues raised by the different groups:

• housing


• culture


• history


• education


• environment


• religion


• employment


• meeting places

These issues were important to the citizens of Jerusalem as they are to other people living in other cities. But there were also some colliding issues in the way the ideal city was imagined, one vision cancelling the other. The question was how to translate human dreams and tensions to the physical model.

Lila Chitayat, our designer, and her team came up with a very interesting concept of putting together different functions in order to highlight the similarities in spite of the differences. For example, taking the meeting places/markets, the idea was to build the model and invite the avatars to enter one market joint place through the different markets in the city and being able to go from one market to the other. We invite you to look at the initial proposal.



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