Ynet | Can a post-October 7 Israel still be considered home? A final project in the Department of Architecture raises questions about migration

In his final project, Yssaf Ohana a graduate of the Undergraduate Program in Architecture, focused  on the themes of migration and wandering, whether by necessity or by choice. Originally from Kibbutz Gevim in the Gaza Envelope, Ohana explores in his project – “Objects of Migration” – questions and thoughts about belonging, and about the home that will never again be the same. His grandmother immigrated to Israel from Morocco in the 1950s, and in contrast, Yssaf presents a reverse migration route: a journey from Israel to Germany, passing through the same “stations” as his grandmother – from home to the port, and from there to the camp and to a permanent residence.

“In the first three months of the war, I had no home to return to. No home, no community; the war destabilized my safest place. I asked myself, should I leave my home because it is no longer safe?” Ohana shares. “To design the buildings in my project, I took architectural elements from the spaces my grandmother passed through and planted them in my migration journey. A layer of memory and above it a layer of imagination, which is my layer. This expresses an intergenerational gap – between a generation that fled to Israel and a generation that questions the future of this place.”

Supervised by: Dan Hasson, Rachel Gottesman, and Eitan Shaag.

The article also reviews other projects: Alma Klemes,“My Peace is Tied with a Thread,” and Hadar Minei and Daniella Friedman’s “Isramoji,” from the Department of Visual Communication, “Patch,” by Michal Harkabi and “SaltBrick” by Noya Aronson from the Department of Industrial Design.

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