The IGA Metropole Ruhr 2027 Green Infrastructure Framework Concept conceives the ecological, social, and spatial context within which IGA 2027 project in the Metropole Ruhr are designed and constructed.
Critical Transformations
Critical Transformations, Al-Quds Bard College, Program: BA Urban Studies & Spatial Practices; Fall Semester 2017. (2nd year BA level)
Urban Design & Spatial Practices
Urban Design & Spatial Practices, Al-Quds Bard College, Urban Studies & Spatial Practices; Fall Semester 2017. (English as a Second Language course)
Global Urbanism
Global Urbanism, Al-Quds Bard College, Program: Urban Studies & Spatial Practices; Spring Semester 2018. (3rd year BA level)
Materials & Architectural Technology
Materials & Architectural Technology, Al-Quds Bard College, Program: Urban Studies & Spatial Practices; Summer Semester 2018 (4th year BA level)
Freedom and its Critics
Freedom and its Critics, Al-Quds Bard College, Core Division (Philosophy); Fall Semester 2018. (2nd year BA level)
Public Space, Culture & Identity
Public Space, Culture & Identity, Al-Quds Bard College, Urban Studies & Spatial Practices, Media Studies; Fall Semester 2018. (part of Palestinian American Youth Civic Engagement) (3rd year BA level)
Introduction to Urban Studies: Cities, Landscapes and Territories, Al-Quds Bard College, Urban Studies & Spatial Practices; taught from 2018-2021.
The main objective of the course is to provide students with the tools to be able to engage in a critical reading of contemporary spatial and urban conditions. This course will focus and investigate the territorial, urban and landscape dimensions of geographic units (deserts, cities,…) through a critical reading of their socio-spatial composition. These geographic…
Spatial Practices: “Common Spaces of Assembly,” Al-Quds Bard College, Urban Studies & Spatial Practices, Spring Semester 2018—2021. (introductory studio class)
Spaces are shaped and transformed not only by official apparatuses and professionals but also by the everyday spatial practices constructed by people. The course will revolve around a number of walks that aim at exploring new ways of thinking about geography, citizenship, and community. It is based on a particular conviction that creative practices could…
A Lexicon of Migration, Bard College Network Course; Spring Semester 2019 (ongoing)
A Lexicon of Migration; Media Studies/Human Rights & International Law; Bard Network Course: Al-Quds Bard College in collaboration with Bard College, New York, US, American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgizstan, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary and Bard College Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Spring Semester 2019.
بَدْو / land(scape), space, Al-Quds Bard College, Social Sciences; co-taught with: Dr. Shourideh Molavi (2019), American University of Cairo, Forensic Architecture; Spring Semester 2019—2021. (4th year BA level, studio class)
Dr. Shourideh Molavi / Jens Haendeler The course introduces land as both an object of investigation and as a site of intervention, the very medium within which power and resistance are represented and conducted. Through the focused case study of the Palestinian Bedouin community, the course will attempt to unpack the inherent tensions between power,…
Forensic, Space & Law, Al-Quds Bard College, Human Rights and International Law, Urban Studies & Spatial Practices; 2018—2021. (4th year BA studio class)
Format: online and in-person Some meetings will be online-only while other meetings will be in-person only; occasionally meetings will be in-person but streamed online; see notes on the syllabus. Professor: Jens Haendeler Office Hours: Mondays 10am to 11am or by appointment; Guest Teaching Assistants: Omar Hmidat Raneem Ayyad Anas Al Khateeb Description: This course offers…
PalFest 2019 @ AQB (Lecture Series); speakers: Lieven De Cauter, Léopold Lambert, Jesse Weaver Shipley, Pelin Tan. Al-Quds Bard College.
Chair/Organizer: PalFest 2019 @ AQB (Lecture Series); speakers: Lieven De Cauter, Léopold Lambert, Jesse Weaver Shipley, Pelin Tan. Al-Quds Bard College.
Fall Urban Studies & Spatial Practices Talks. Speakers: Wisam al Jafari and Talal Abu Shawish.
Chair/Organizer: Fall Urban Studies & Spatial Practices Talks. Speakers: Wisam al Jafari and Talal Abu Shawish.
Solve Climate by 2030 Global Climate Dialogue 2021: Middle East.
Chair/Organizer; Solve Climate by 2030 Global Climate Dialogue 2021: Middle East. Across The Fertile Crescent, round table with Mazin Qumsiyeh, Pelin Tan, Farimah Jamali.
Halden / Gerechtigkeit
Universität Kassel / Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus Senftenberg, 10. Workshop des Arbeitskreises Landschaftsforschung. Abstract: What capabilities unfold if we consider the landfill as a site to inquire into the predominant dimensions shaping the concept of “landscape justice”? The landfill is a site that not only allows us to theorize “landscape justice” as a domain located…
Weaponised Landscapes & The Calais Refugee Camp: Architectures of Displacement
Faculty Research Seminar, Al-Quds Bard College.
Occupied Landscapes: The Architecture of Displacement and Urban Tactics of Resistance in the Calais ‘Jungle.’
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2018: Contesting Border Formations, Panel, Paper Presentation. Jens Haendeler.