Spring 2019 seminar: M.R.P. candidate, city and regional planning
Lama Shehadeh is a Fulbright scholar from Palestine and is currently a second-year master’s student in the Department of City and Regional Planning. Shehadeh is an architect, studied at the Technion in Haifa, practiced architecture and planning, and recently interned at the Pittsburgh Department of City Planning. She is interested in spaces of conflict; in how politics, wars, and colonialism shape the living space; and in how formal and informal planning clash and meet in our private and public spheres. Through her studies, Shehadeh has explored the informal growth of Palestinian localities in Israel under the threat of destruction and the absence of public space, and is currently studying the Israeli water planning system and its environmental and social effects. Also, she likes to sculpt.