Across cities and borders, millions witness from afar the genocide currently unfolding against the Palestinians in Gaza. Fighting this powerlessness means organizing for tomorrow to support, at our own scale, the Palestinian struggle for liberation.

Architecture is not a neutral practice. In contexts of occupation and colonialism, it becomes a powerful tool of control, segregation, erasure, and normalization. In Palestine, the built environment is central to how Israeli settler colonialism operates and sustains itself.
To support the Palestinian struggle for liberation, we must learn to recognize the physical and spatial structures that entrench apartheid and dispossession. This lecture, originally drawing from a teach-in designed for architecture students in November 2023, is an invitation to think through the banal structures of settler colonialism.

Join us for a session with Léopold Lambert, editor-in-chief of The Funambulist and author of Weaponized Architecture, who will guide us through the geographies and infrastructures of Israeli settler colonialism—from military checkpoints to settler roads, border walls, and zoning laws—through his own photos and maps since 2008. This session is open to all and will offer insight into how space becomes political, and how that knowledge can help us organize, resist, and imagine otherwise.

Léopold Lambert is the editor-in-chief of The Funambulist, a print and online trilingual magazine dedicated to the politics of space and bodies. He is a trained architect living in Paris, and the author of four books analysing the complicity of architecture with settler colonial regimes (in particular in Palestine, Algeria, and Kanaky). These books are Weaponized Architecture (2012), Topie Impitoyable (2015), La Politique du Bulldozer (2016), and States of Emergency: A Spatial History of the French Colonial Continuum (fr: 2021, en: 2025).