Alessandro Petti Libri

This book invites readers to engage in an urgent architectural and political thought experiment, urging a reexamination of contemporary struggles for justice and equality through the lens of ongoing decolonization efforts. It challenges the notion of political subjectivity by shifting focus from a Western liberal citizen to the experiences of displaced and extraterritorial refugees. Rather than detailing popular uprisings or political negotiations, the authors present provocative projects that envision "the morning after revolution." Based in Beit Sahour, Palestine, the architectural collective Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR) has been active since 2007, blending discourse, spatial interventions, collective learning, public meetings, and legal challenges to explore the transformation of Israel's structures of domination. DAAR critiques traditional architectural histories of decolonization that repurpose colonial architecture for its original intent, instead proposing innovative approaches for subverting, reusing, profaning, and recycling these oppressive structures and the legal frameworks that uphold them. This work opens a space for imagining possibilities that challenge existing power dynamics and envision a different future.