Realising that the limitation with most western analysis is its fixation with the negative aspects of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, the Palestinian Regeneration Team (PART) aims instead to find constructive ways to implement architecture and urban design. By focussing on existing everyday patterns of life in Palestine, often under situations of extreme duress, definite possibilities arise for spaces in which new and creative practices can occur. The Palestinian Regeneration Team consists of Professor Murray Fraser, Nasser Golzari and Yara Sharif. Together we are involved in a wide range of 'live' design projects with local communities and NGOs in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, working on self-build housing strategies, urban master-plans and prototype ‘green’ dwellings which use less energy by adapting traditional cooling methods.