Karen Lee Bar-Sinai
Karen Lee Bar-Sinai is an architect, urban designer and a PhD researcher at the faculty of Architecture, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology in Israel. She received her B.Arch from the Technion, an MSc in Cities from the London School of Economics. Her work lies at the intersection of architecture, urban design, environment, technology and sociopolitics. The practice she has co-founded developed ‘resolution planning’- the use of architectural and design tools in aid of conflict resolution processes, namely in the Israeli-Palestinian context. Demonstrating how peace could look like, these visions ranged between the architectural detail to urban-scale systems, emphasizing connectivity rather than separation. In her current research, Karen Lee explores the role of advanced fabrication on construction at a territorial scale. Here, she explores ways to reconstitute native matter through robotic tools to limit the need for massive material transport towards more sustainable materiality in large scale architectural and landscape construction.