ציבוריות מלמטה

The project examines the development of a public space that emerges from within the unrecognized Bedouin villages of the Negev, drawing on Laclau and Mouffe’s theory of agonistic action and self-organization. This approach assumes that political struggle against marginalization does not begin with the state, but with the community’s capacity to create alternative public spaces that reshape its relationship to place and power dynamics. The project proposes a two-layered structure: a network of reimagined roads that connects the villages to small nodes hosting programs functioning as an alternative civic infrastructure for gathering, documentation, and everyday political practice; and, at the center of this network, the core program located in the village of al-Zarnuq, an alternative community school providing tools for self-organization, local knowledge production, and the development of negotiation skills and constructive activism. Together, the network and the school constitute the beginnings of a spatial and urban consciousness that challenges outdated planning logics and opens possibilities for a gradual, community-driven formation of collective identity.