A Diasporist Guide to Camping Here

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Title
A Diasporist Guide to Camping Here
Description
At Camp Doikayt, the landscape is a vehicle for remembering histories of diaspora and reimagining Jewishness beyond Zionism. Summer camps proliferated in the United States after the Shoah, using the Zionist invention of the “muscular” Jew, to cultivate Jewish continuity. Camp Doikayt proposes an alternative modeled after the Jewish Labor Bund’s concept of “hereness.” In the form of a guidebook, the camp's design unfolds through a set of rules that ritualizes a land ethic of solidarity and participation. As camp wanders year to year to different abandoned Jewish sites in the Catskills, we reconfigure the materials, adapt ecological remnants, and reinterpret Jewish cultural memory.
Creator
Laster, G
Subject
bund
catskills
diaspora
diasporism
doikayt
landscape architecture
Landscape architecture
Judaic studies
Contributor
Clingen, Kira
Date
2024-05-21T12:03:05Z
2024
2024-05-15
2024
2024-05-21T12:03:05Z
Type
Thesis or Dissertation
text
Format
application/pdf
application/pdf
application/octet-stream
Identifier
Laster, G. 2024. A Diasporist Guide to Camping Here. Master's thesis, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
31298156
https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37378611
Language
en