Malkit Shoshan
FAST: Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory is a practice operating at the intersection of architecture, urban planning, and human rights, advancing social and environmental justice through collaborative spatial design initiatives.
FAST is directed by Malkit Shoshan, a designer, researcher, writer, and educator. She served as Senior Loeb Scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and as a resident at the Rockefeller Bellagio Center, and was awarded the Silver Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2021).
Shoshan is the author of Atlas of Conflict: Israel–Palestine (010, 2010) and BLUE (Actar, 2023), and co-author of Village (Damiani, 2014). Additional publications include Zoo, or the Letter Z, Just After Zionism (NAiM, 2012), Drone and Retreat (DPR-Barcelona), Spaces of Conflict (JAP SAM, 2017), and Greening Peacekeeping (IPI, 2018).
She curated the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2016) with BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions, generating policy papers, exhibitions, and contributions to the 2017 UN resolution on peacekeeping.
Since 2016, she has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, directing the Art, Design, and the Public Domain MDes (2017–2022), and was Day Class Speaker in 2025.
FAST and Shoshan’s work has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, NRC, Haaretz, Volume, Surface, Frame, Metropolis, and Harvard Design Magazine, and exhibited internationally, including at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, the Rotterdam Architecture Biennale, the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, NAiM/Bureau Europa, Boijmans, Het Nieuwe Instituut, the Istanbul Design Biennale, and the Netherlands Architecture Institute.
