Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR) is an architectural studio and a residency program based in Beit Sahour, Palestine. DAAR’s work combines spatial interventions, theoretical writings and collective learning. DAAR is dedicated to architectural experimentations on the reuse and transformation of colonial architecture, settlements, military bases, 1948 cleanzed Palestinian villages, primerly in Palestine. DAAR was founded in 2007 in Beit Sahour near Bethlehem by Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal and Eyal Weizman. The ideas that have been developed and disseminated throughout the region and abroad via exhibitions, seminars, videos and publications. Dozens of local and international architects are allied with the institute. Furthermore, it works together with a large number of artists,