Malkit Shoshan

Design Critic in Urban Planning and Design

Visiting Faculty

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Office Location

40 Kirkland 1E/1F

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Malkit Shoshan is a designer, researcher, and writer who serves as founding director of FAST (Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory). Her work, situated at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, and human rights, employs interdisciplinary, multi‑scalar, and collaborative methods to address extreme conditions, including climate crisis, migration, and the spatial‑ecological dynamics of political borders in conflict‑affected environments. Her practice combines design research, community engagement, and policy work to produce multimedia outputs, actionable research, and design interventions that aim to improve livelihoods and ecosystems.

Her research and practice have been recognized internationally: she curated the Dutch Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale and received the Silver Lion in 2021.

Shoshan is the author of Atlas of the Conflict: Israel–Palestine (010, 2010) and BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions (Actar, 2023); Border Ecologies is forthcoming from Mack Books. She co‑authored Village: One Land, Two Systems and Platform Paradise (Damiani, 2014). Other publications include Zoo (NAiM, 2012), Drone (DPR‑Barcelona, 2016), Retreat (DPR‑Barcelona, 2020), Spaces of Conflict (Jap Sam Books, 2017), Greening Peacekeeping: The Environmental Impact of UN Peace Operations (IPI, 2018), and UN Peace Missions in Urban Environments (CIC‑NYU and FAST, 2019).

She teaches as a Design Critic at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she previously served as area head of the Art, Design, and the Public Domain Master in Design Studies. She was Senior Loeb Scholar, served as the Harvard GSD Day Class Speaker in 2025, and was a finalist for the Wheelwright Prize in 2015. She has also held visiting appointments, including as a visiting scholar at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge and visiting critic roles at Syracuse University and Carleton University.

Shoshan has participated in the Venice Architecture Biennale multiple times (2002, 2008, 2016, 2021) and exhibited widely, including at the Cooper Hewitt (2021–2023), the Rotterdam Architecture Biennale (2007, 2011, 2022), the UN Headquarters in New York (2016), Harvard GSD (2017, 2020), and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (2016). Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, NRC, Haaretz, Volume, Surface, Frame, Metropolis, and Harvard Design Magazine .