In a world of real and imagined danger in which we find ourselves,
the process of trauma, recovery and remembrance has taken on new
significance. While we do not address the events of September 11th
2001 directly, this volume of Projections certainly has its genesis in the
struggle we have faced to rebuild, personally and professionally, in the
months and years following that tragic morning. For me, the struggle to
cope with disaster recovery began earlier, following my visit to Sarajevo
in 2000 where I was part of a group re-designing the government center
after its 1992-95 siege. Five years after the war ended, the scars of
conflict were immediately present: buildings toppled, areas land mined,
growing squatter settlements and thousands of simple white sticks
dotting the landscape, marking the resting place of the city's defenders.
