Malkit Shoshan is a designer, researcher, and writer who is the founding director of FAST: Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory. Her design and activist practice is situated at the intersection of architecture, urban planning, and human rights, employing interdisciplinary, multi‑scalar, and collaborative methods to address systemic violence and extreme conditions including the climate crisis, forced migration, and the spatial‑ecological dynamics of political borders in conflict‑affected environments. She combines design research, community engagement, and policy work to produce multimedia outputs, actionable research, and design interventions that aim to expand the public imagination of what is possible and to contribute to the improvement of livelihoods and ecosystems.
Shoshan is the author and mapmaker of the award-winning book Atlas of the Conflict: Israel–Palestine (010, 2010) and BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions (Actar, 2023). She co‑authored Village: One Land, Two Systems and Platform Paradise (Damiani, 2014). Other publications include Zoo, or the letter Z, just after Zionism (NAiM, 2012), Drone (DPR‑Barcelona, 2016), Retreat (DPR‑Barcelona, 2020), Spaces of Conflict (Jap Sam Books, 2017), Greening Peacekeeping: The Environmental Impact of UN Peace Operations (IPI, 2018), and UN Peace Missions in Urban Environments (CIC‑NYU and FAST, 2019). Border Ecologies and the Gaza Strip is her forthcoming book (Mack Books).
Her research and practice have been recognized internationally: she received the Silver Lion in 2021 and curated the Dutch Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale.
She is a Design Critic at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), where she directs the Master in Design Studies in Publics and previously served as director of the Art, Design, and the Public Domain (ADPD) Master in Design Studies. At the GSD she served as Senior Loeb Scholar in 2024 and was the Harvard GSD Day Class Speaker in 2025. Also at the GSD, she was the Wheelwright Prize finalist in 2015.
Shoshan work has been exhibited widely, including at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2002, 2008, 2016, 2021), the Cooper Hewitt (2021–2023), the Rotterdam Architecture Biennale (2007, 2011, 2022), the UN Headquarters in New York (2016), Harvard GSD (2017, 2020), and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (2016). Her work has been featured in newspapers and journals including The New York Times, The Guardian, NRC, Haaretz, Volume, Surface, Frame, Metropolis, and Harvard Design Magazine.