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…

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…

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…