The Story of Abubaker Abed “Palestinians dream to live. Others live to dream” Enter 360° Web VR Reconstruction Method The VR experience was reconstructed through oral testimony, archival imagery, spatial memory, historical research, and environmental reconstruction methods. Oral Testimonies The narrative structure is primarily based on testimonies from displaced families originating from Beit Daras, includingContinue reading “Story of Abubaker”
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Palestine:A Tale of a Shredded Homeland
An animated tale unfolds, depicting a nation estranged and exiled within its very own homeland. The narrative commences by tracing the militarized colonial displacement that spanned decades, chronicling the agonizing chapters of dispossession and erasure of the native realm. The short animation portrays the tattering of a once-unified land into shards of territory, fractured fractions, besiegedContinue reading “Palestine:A Tale of a Shredded Homeland”
Jaffa
Pre-Nakba -Street View Map click the image to enter WebVR mode https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/1776674/
3D Topographical Map of Palestine 1945
Nakba Animated Map This is an experimental primitive work representing the Palestinian maps during the British Mandate in Virtual Reality. The map shows the area between latrun-Jerusalem and Ramleh – Jerusalem railway track. Tens of Palestinian villages located in this area have been depopulated and destroyed. Even the landscape has been dramatically changed.This can be usedContinue reading “3D Topographical Map of Palestine 1945”
Nakba Animated Map
Nakba Animated Map ” Nakba Timeline Map: One second for every depopulated Palestinian city and village” (infographic map) This time animated map describes the chronological order of the systemic depopulation and then the erasing of more than 437 Palestinian cities and villages during the 1948 Nakba notes: only three villages were evacuated after the order ofContinue reading “Nakba Animated Map”
Tantura Village
Archive/material Tantura Village Al-Tantura Before 1948At 24 km distance from Haifa, the village stood on a small hill that was slightly higher than the surrounding (sandy) seashore. A spur linked it to the coastal highway, giving it access to Haifa and other urban centres. It also had a train station that serviced the coastal railwayContinue reading “Tantura Village”
Hittin Village
History of Hittin Village he village Hittin was located 8km from the city of Tiberias on the banks of a small wadi at the northern foot of the Mount Hittin. Hittin was known to be a strategically and commercially important village due to its dominance over the Plain of Hittin. This plain opened onto theContinue reading “Hittin Village”
Zir’in Village
Zir’in Village The village was located on a small plateau, a spur projecting from the Faqqu’a Mountains to the south, and 11 kilometers north from Jenin. In March 1948, the Arab Liberation Army reported that « the Jews have been trying since the 17th of this month to eliminate these villages [Zir’in and Nuris]. » That spateContinue reading “Zir’in Village”
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