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 Blessed are the Mapmakers, Ken Shulman, May 3, 2013, newyorker.com“There’s a huge gap between the broad stroke of policymaking and the reality on the ground,” Karen Lee Bar-Sinai, the co-founder, with Yehuda Greenfield-Gilat, of SAYA, a Jerusalem-based design studio, said. SAYA drafts hypothetical solutions to brick-and-mortar problems in disputed territories around the world. The pair has consulted with teams to unravel national borders in the former Yugoslavia, reconcile Greek and Turkish claims in the divided Cypriot city of Nicosia, and, far more frequently and closer to home, sketch profiles of peace for Israel and Palestine. “Policymakers tend to frame their questions in terms of numbers,” Bar-Sinai said. “Sometimes they don’t consider that conflicts will be resolved in space.” ...Read more :http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdeskCredit: SAYA