
Adrian Lahoud is Dean of the School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art which now for the 4th year in a row is named as the world best Arts & Design school in the world by the QS World University Ranking.
Prior to his current role at RCA, he was Director of the MA at the Centre for Research Architecture Goldsmiths University and a research fellow in the Forensic Architecture ERC project, Studio master in the Projective Cities MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design at the Architectural Association and Director of the MArch Urban Design, Bartlett UCL.
Drawing on nation building projects in the post-colonial period, early cybernetic forms of government, and the mobilisation of climate research by the global south, his PhD titled The Problem of Scale: The City, the Territory, the Planetary sets out a theory of scale drawn from architectural practice in the context of emancipatory struggles.
Recent exhibits include The Shape of the Eclipse at Let’s Talk about the Weather: Art and Ecology in a Time of Crisis Sursock Museum Beirut, Secular Cosmologies in After Belonging Triennial of Architecture Oslo, and Floating Bodies at Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin. He has also contributed to Haus der Kulturen der Welt’s Anthropocene Curriculum and Technosphere projects.
Recent presentations include Fallen Cities at The Arab City: Architecture and Representation Columbia University GSAPP, Scale as a Problem, Architecture as a Trap at Climate Change and the Scale of the Environment Columbia University GSAPP, Floating Bodies at Conflict Shorelines Princeton University, New Imaginaries at The Mediterranean Harvard University, Floating Bodies at Travellers ETH Zurich, and Fallen Cities at Grand Gestures Eikones Basel.
Recent publications include The Mediterranean: A New Imaginary in New Geographies (Harvard University Press), Floating Bodies in Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth (Sternberg), The Bodele Declaration in Grain, Vapour, Ray: Textures of the Anthropocene (MIT Press), Nomos and Cosmos in Supercommunity (e-flux), Fallen Cities in The Arab City: Architecture and Representation (Columbia University Press), Scale as a Problem, Architecture as a Trap in Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary (Avery Review Lars Muller) and A Mandala to a Model in Elements for a World: Stone, Water, Wood, Fire, Sky (Sursock Museum).
He is currently working on a project exploring the intersection of architecture, anthropology and semiotics.
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Adrian Lahoud është Dekani i Shkollës së Arkitekturës në Royal College of Arts i cili tash e 4 vite resht emërohet si shkolla më e mire e artit dhe dizajnit në botë nga QS World University Ranking.
Para rolit të tij të tanishëm në RCA, Lahoud ishte Drejtor i MA në Qendrën për Arkitekturë Kërkimore të Goldsmiths University, hulumtues në Projektin ERC të Arkitekturës kërkimore, Udhëheqës në Studion e MPhil të Qyteteve Projektuese në Arkitekturë dhe Dizajn Urban në AA School of Architecture dhe Drejtor i Dizajnit Urban MArch, Bartlett UCL.
Lahoud per temen e doktoratures hulumtoi diskurset kombëtare të periudhës post koloniale dhe format e hershme të qeverisjës kibernetike, si dhe mobilizimin e hulumtimeve klimatike nga Jugu global. Puna e titulluar “The Problem of Scale: The City, the Territory, the Planetary” përcakton një teori nga praktika arkitekturore në kontekstin e përpjekjeve emancipuese.
Ekspozitat e kohëve të fundit përfshijnë: The Shape of the Eclipse në Let’s Talk about the Weather: Art and Ecology in a Time of Crisis Sursock, Muzeu i Bejrutit, Secular Cosmologies nëTrienalen e Arkitekturës në Oslo After Belonging, dhe Floating Bodies në Forensis: Arkitektura e së Drejtës Publike, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin. Gjithashtu ka kontribuar në projektet të kurrikulës së antropocenës dhe teknosferës në Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Ka bërë prezentime të shumta, duke përfshirë: Fallen Cities at the Arab City: Architecture and Presentation në Columbia University GSAPP; Scale as a Problem, Architecture as a Trap në Climate Change and the Scale of the Environment Columbia University GSAPP, Floating Bodies në Conflict Shorelines Princeton University, New Imaginaries në The Mediterranean Harvard University, Floating Bodies në Travellers ETH Zurich dhe Fallen Cities në Grand Gestures Eikones Basel.
Disa nga publikimet e Adrian Lahoud janë: The Mediterranean: A New Imaginary in New Geographies (Harvard University Press), Floating Bodies in Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth (Sternberg), The Bodele Declaration in Grain, Vapour, Ray: Textures of the Anthropocene (MIT Press), Nomos and Cosmos in Supercommunity (e-flux), Fallen Cities in the Arab City: Architecture and Representation (Columbia University Press), etj.
Ai aktualisht është duke punuar në një projekt që eksploron kryqëzimin e arkitekturës, antropologjisë dhe semiotikës.
Michael Jakob is Professor in History and Theory of Landscape at hepia (Geneva) and Professor of Comparative Literature (Chair) at Grenoble University. He is a Visiting Professor at BIARCH, Barcelona and has taught in the past at several Swiss, Italian, French, American and Spanish universities. His teaching and research focus on landscape theory, aesthetics, the history of vertigo, contemporary theories of perception and the poetics of architecture. He is the founder and head of COMPAR(A)ISON, an International Journal of Comparative Literature, the chief editor of «di monte in monte», a series of books on mountain culture (Edizioni Tarara’, Verbania), and the head of the Paysages books series with Infolio, the major publishing house of architectural books in Switzerland. He produced several documentary films for TV (on and with Frank Gehry, Linus Pauling, Bruno Bettelheim, etc.) and has a longstanding experience as a radio journalist. He has published recently: Le Paysage, Infolio, Gollion 2008 (in Italian: Il paesaggio, Il Mulino, Bologna 2009 ); Il giardino allo specchio. Percorsi tra pittura, cinema e fotografia, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2009 (in French: Le jardin et les arts, Infolio, Gollion 2009; in Spanish: El jardín y la representación, Siruela, Madrid 2010); 100 Paysages, Infolio, Gollion 2011. Jakob received his MA and PhD from Geneva University and his Habilitation (venia legendi) from Bern University.
Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss is an architect and author based in New York. Harvard trained, he is interested in the relationship between art, architecture and society. He was heading research at Herzog & de Meuron and now is the principal of NAO. He is frequent visiting professor at Harvard, Cornell, Penn and Columbia universities. Weiss published three books related to the Balkan region: 1. Almost Architecture (Akademie Solitude, Stuttgart), 2. Socialist Architecture: The Vanishing Act (JRP Ringier, Zuerich) and Socialist Architecture: The Reapearing Act (The Green Box, Berlin). He is a contributing editor to Cabinet magazine. In 2015 he co-curated exhibition Romancing True Power at The New School’s The Aronson’s Gallery as an analysis of dictatoship and design. Srdjan Weiss has a PhD from Goldsmiths University of London on the topic of Architecture of Balkanization. He was also a fellow at Forensic Architecture group at Goldsmiths analyzing NATO and its relationship to the city.
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Srdjan Jovanoviç Weiss është arkitekt dhe autor me bazë në Nju Jork. I trajnuar në Harvard, Weiss është i përqëndruar në marrëdhënien mes artit, arkitekturës dhe shoqërisë. Në të kaluarën Srdjan ishte udhëheqës i hulumtimeve në Herzog & de Meuron dhe tani është drejtor në NAO. Weiss është ligjerues i shpesht në universitetin e Harvardit, Cornell, Penn dhe Columbia. Weiss publikoi tre libra lidhur me rajonin e Ballkanit: 1. Almost Architecture (Akademie Solitude, Stuttgart), 2. Socialist Architecture: The Vanishing Act (JRP Ringier, Zuerich) dhe Socialist Architecture: The Reapearing Act (The Green Box, Berlin). Srdjan është redaktor kontribues në revistën Cabinet dhe në vitin 2015 ka bashkë kuruar ekspozitën Romancing True Power në Galerinë Aronson’s të The New School. Srdjan Weiss ka doktoruar nga Universiteti Goldsmiths i Londrës në temën e Arkitekturës së Ballkanizimit. Ai ishte gjithashtu anëtar i grupit të Arkitekturës Forenzike në Goldsmiths ku analizonte NATO-n dhe marrëdhëniet e organizatës me qytetin.
Indira van ’t Klooster (NL) is the founding editor-in-chief and chair of A10 new European architecture Cooperative, which is the continuation of A10 magazine (which she headed between 2012 and 2016). She is the author of Reactivate! Innovators of Dutch architecture (Trancity, 2013) and Forty and Famous, 10 interviews with young European architects (Amilcar Publishers, 2016). In 2017 she and Pakhuis De Zwijger started Architecture Now, a bi-monthly talkshow on today’s architecture in The Netherlands. She also works for Architectuur Lokaal, a Dutch foundation that promotes good clientship in architecture. She has been part of many juries of (national) awards for (young) architects in for example Hungary (Media Architecture Prize (2016), Italy (Young Italian Architect Award 2014), Estonia (Architect of the Year 2015), The Netherlands (Maaskant Prize 2014) and Scotland (Doolan Prize 2013), and is regularly invited as a guest lecturer all over Europe. In the autumn of 2017 she will start her fellowship at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna, a European thinktank on sociopolitical issues. Her research will focus on Eutopian Communities.
About A10 new European architecture Cooperative
A10 new European architecture Cooperative is a network of journalists, critics, and bloggers in the field of architecture. Together we work on a platform for (emerging) European architecture within the broader context of economics, politics, philosophy, sociology, and art. All A10 members are independent and leading experts within their own fields of expertise. A10 reflects on topical European issues and how architects respond to them. To be able to truly reflect on architecture, we believe it is important to create the social, political, cultural, historical, and economic context in which the building, the architect, the location, and the stakeholders are included. Recent research includes “The State of Committed Architecture” in which AIAC (IT) and A10 selected 37 established offices that do or should inspire the younger generations; in “Competition culture in Europe” A10 and Architectuur Lokaal have researched the context of competitions in 17 European countries; and “Eutopian Communities” researches various utopian communities, in which people are trying to find new ways of making society and democracy – towards a more balanced relationship with natural resources, more intense inter-human relationships, and/or alternative exchange systems (goods, money). All authors on this platform are members of the A10 new European architecture Cooperative. Together we manage, develop, and build upon our online and offline activities. The A10 Coop board members, elected by the Coop members, are in charge of the daily affairs of the Coop.
*This lecture is supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands in Kosovo
Hashim Sarkis was appointed Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning in January of 2015. Prior to that he was at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) as the The Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism. In addition to professorships at Harvard University and MIT, Dean Sarkis has held numerous visiting appointments around the world including the American University of Beirut and the Metropolis Program in Barcelona.
In addition to his academic work, Dean Sarkis is principal architect in the Cambridge and Beirut based firm, Hashim Sarkis Studios, founded in 1998. His architectural and planning projects include affordable housing, institutional buildings, and town planning throughout the globe. His current projects include the recently completed Byblos Town Hall and the Courtowers which is under construction.
Dean Sarkis has received many awards and honors including the Venice Architecture Biennale, US Pavilion featuring Byblos Town Hall, Housing for the Fishermen of Tyre, and the Balloon Landing Park (June-November 2014); and First Prize Award for the Byblos Town Hall Competition, Byblos, Lebanon (2011). His work has been published in the Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century Architecture with the Housing for the Fishermen of Tyre selected as one of the most significant buildings of the 21st Century (2008). He also received numerous teaching awards while at Harvard University.
Sarkis is the author of many articles and books that have filled important gaps in the history of modern architecture and urban design. These include Circa 1958: Lebanon in the Pictures and Plans of Constantinos Doxiadis, and the edited books CASE: Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital and Josep Lluis Sert: The Architect of Urban Design (with Eric Mumford).
Sarkis was a founding member of Plan B, Institute for Urban Design Studies in Lebanon and the Middle East and the Arab Center for Architecture. He has served on the board of several organizations including the Association for Rural Development in Southern Lebanon. He holds professional registration with the Beirut Order of Engineers and Architects.
Dean Sarkis has a Bachelor of Architecture and Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Rhode Island School of Design and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University GSD. He received his Ph.D. in Architecture from Harvard University GSD for his thesis Publics and Architects: Re-Engaging Design in the Democracy.
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Simon Battisti is an architect and teacher based in Tirana, Albania. His work focuses on alternative, critical approaches to development in spatial planning. Through teaching and independent research, he studies the nexus between tourism planning, migration, infrastructure, and self-management in coastal southern Albania.
In 2016, he was curator of “I Have Left You the Mountain,” the Albanian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, which used singing to articulate ways in which patterns of departure have affected Albanian cities and towns for the past five centuries.
He is the founding editor of Very Vary Veri, a journal about architecture and urbanism based at Harvard GSD. He is editor of Flexible Leviathan: Reconsidering Scale and Fixity in Iztapalapa, Mexico City (Harvard GSD, 2016), with Diane Davis and Jose Castillo. He writes regularly about architecture and urbanism, most recently in Log, Clog, and many others.
Recent projects have been supported by the Fulbright Foundation, the National Territorial Planning Agency of Albania (AKPT); the German Cooperation for Development (GIZ); the Institute for Democracy, Media, and Culture; and the Municipality of Tirana.
The lecture will be held on the 9th of September at Jakova Innovation Center, Gjakova from 7.00 PM
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Simon Battisti është arkitekt me bazë në Tiranë, Shqipëri. Puna e tij përqendrohet në qasje alternative dhe kritike ndaj zhvillimit në planifikimin hapësinor. Përmes mësimdhënies dhe kërkimit të pavarur, ai studion lidhjen mes planifikimit të turizmit, migrimit, infrastrukturës dhe vetë-menaxhimit në Shqipërinë më sakt në bregdetin jugor të saj.
Në vitin 2016, ai ishte kuratori i “I Have Left You the Mountain”, pavijoni shqiptar në Bienalen e Arkitekturës së Venecias, i cili përdori këngën për të artikuluar mënyrat në të cilat modelet e largimit kanë ndikuar qytetet shqiptare gjatë pesë shekujve të fundit.
Ai është redaktori themelues i “Very Vary Veri”, një revistë për arkitekturën dhe urbanizmin e bazuar në Harvard GSD. Është redaktor i Flexible Leviathan: Rikonsiderimi i Shkallës dhe Fiksimit në Iztapalapa, Mexico City (Harvard GSD, 2016), me Diane Davis dhe Jose Castillo. Simon shkruan rregullisht për arkitekturën dhe urbanizmin në revista të ndryshme profesionale, së fundmi në Log, Clog, etj.
Projektet e tij të fundit janë mbështetur nga Fondacioni Fulbright, Agjencia Kombëtare e Planifikimit të Territorit (AKPT); Bashkëpunimi Gjerman për Zhvillim (GIZ); Instituti për Demokraci, Mediume dhe Kulturë; si dhe Bashkia e Tiranës.
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Hanif Kara is a practicing structural engineer and Professor in Practice of Architectural Technology at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. His particular “design-led” approach and interest in innovative form, sustainable construction and complex analysis methods have allowed him to work on pioneering projects, and under his leadership the practice has won over 250 design awards including the RIBA Stirling Prize for the Peckham Library, London, in 2000, and for the Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge, in 2012, as well as the RIBA Lubetkin Prize for the UK Pavilion at Shanghai Expo in 2010. Hanif was on the steering committee of AKAA for the last cycle. Hanif has also edited Design Engineering, a retrospective of AKT’s first decade, which was published in 2008, and was followed by Design Engineering Refocused in 2016. He has also contributed to many publications and exhibitions relating to design and the role of engineering.
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Hanif Kara është inxhinier strukturor dhe profesor në praktikën e teknologjisë arkitektonike në Shkollën e Lartë të Dizajnit në Universitetin e Harvardit. Qasja dhe interesimi i tij i posaçëm në dizajnin inovativ, ndërtimin e qëndrueshëm dhe metodat e analizës komplekse, e kanë lejuar atë të punojë në projekte pioniere, dhe punët e tij kanë fituar mbi 250 çmime të dizajnit duke përfshirë çmimin Stirling RIBA për Bibliotekën Peckham , Londër, në vitin 2000, dhe për Laboratorin Sainsbury, Cambridge, në vitin 2012, si dhe Çmimin RIBA Lubetkin për Pavilionin e Britanisë së Madhe në Shanghai Expo në vitin 2010. Hanif ishte në komitetin drejtues të AKAA për edicionin e fundit. Hanif gjithashtu ka redaktuar pë Inxhinierinë e Dizajnit, një revistë e AKT-së, e cila u botua në vitin 2008 dhe u pasua nga Projektimi i Inxhinierisë Refocused në vitin 2016. Hanif Kara gjithashtu ka kontribuar në shumë botime dhe ekspozita që kanë të bëjnë me dizajnin dhe rolin e inxhinierisë.
AKT II është një firmë progresive e dizajnit strukturor dhe inxhinierisë civile, ku ka projekte aktuale në 44 vende të botës. AKT II u themelua nga Robin Adams, Hanif Kara, Albert Williamson-Taylor, Gerry O’Brien dhe Paul Scott. Zyra AKT II është me bazë në Londrën Qendrore. Përvoja e praktikës është e gjerë, duke mbuluar sektorin komercial, rezidencial, arsimore, shëndetësore dhe transportin e tregut. Projektet përfshijnë zhvillimet më të reja të ndërtimtarisë si dhe renovime të komplikuara të ndërtesave të listuara, me vlera të kontratës duke filluar nga £ 100,000 deri në mbi 750 milionë dollarë. AKT II janë të bindur që punojnë me një gamë të gjerë metodash dhe materialesh, duke përfshirë çelikun strukturor dhe metalet e tjera, beton, drurë strukturor, masoneri, plastikë, qelq, kompozita dhe pëlhura elastike.
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Rand Eppich është një arkitekt, studiues dhe mësues, puna e tij aktuale përqendrohet në rolin e ruajtjes arkitektonike për zhvillimin ekonomik si dhe në zhvillimin e komunitetit. Rand kohët e fundit është merrë me konservimin e Kullës së Othello-s dhe Manastirin e Agios Panteleimonas në Qipro për Programin e Kombeve të Bashkuara për Zhvillim (UNDP) – Partneritet për të Ardhmën. Rand gjithëashtu është pjesë e vlerësimit të kushteve dhe strategjive të ndërhyrjes së ardhshme për Bibliotekën Kombëtare të Kosovës me Fondacionin Kosovar për Arkitekturë dhe Fondacionin Getty. Kohët e fundit ai u kthye nga Makli, Sindh ku punonte për zhvillimin e një plani master për këtë pronë të Trashëgimisë Botërore.
Ai ka udhëhequr projekte në Bosnje dhe Herzegovinë, Kosovë, Shqipëri si dhe gjithë Europën dhe Amerikën Latine për EuropeAid, Bankën Inter-Amerikane për Zhvillimin dhe Bashkimin Evropian. Rand ka bashkëpunuar me UNESCO-n, Trashëgiminë Kulturore pa Kufij dhe Qendrën Ndërkombëtare për Studimin e Ruajtjes dhe Restaurimit të Pronës Kulturore (ICCROM) dhe së fundi Muzeun Britanik për trajnimin e profesionistëve arkitektonikë dhe inxhinierikë në Lindjen e Mesme. Ai më parë ishte menaxher i lartë i projektit në Institutin e Konservimit të Getty, ku themeloi Laboratorin e Dokumentacionit dhe ka ligjëruar në ATHAR (Arkeologji-Arkitektonike Trashëgimisë së Prekshme në Rajonet Arabe) si dhe në Universitetin Leuven, Universitetin e Pensilvanisë dhe Politecnico di Torino. Rand Eppich është ekspert i resurseve për Universitetin Athabasca.
Ka diplomuar në Universitetin e Kalifornisë, në Los Anxheles (SHBA), ka diplomë Master në Arkitekturë dhe Administrim Biznesi (MBA), ka një diplomë Bachelor në arkitekturë me fokus në ruajtjen historike nga LSU dhe aktualisht është duke shkruar disertacionin e doktoraturës në Universitetin Politécnia de Madrid Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura.
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Rand Eppich is a practicing architect, researcher and teacher whose current work focuses on the role of architectural conservation for economic and community development. He recently completed the conservation of Othello´s Tower and the Monastery of Agios Panteleimonas in Cyprus for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Partnership for the Future. His current work also includes the condition assessment and future intervention strategies for the National Library of Kosovo with the Kosovo Architectural Foundation and the Getty Foundation. He recently returned from Makli, Sindh where he was working on the development of a master plan for this World Heritage property.
He has led projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Albania and throughout Europe and Latin America for EuropeAid, the Inter-American Development Bank and the European Union. He has collaborated with UNESCO, Cultural Heritage without Borders, and the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) and most recently the British Museum for the training of architectural and engineering professionals in the Middle East. He formerly a senior project manager at the Getty Conservation Institute where he founded the Documentation Lab and has lectured at the ATHAR (Architectural-Archaeological Tangible Heritage in the Arab Region) as well as at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, University of Pennsylvania and Politecnico di Torino and is an resource expert for Athabasca University.
He received his Masters Degrees in both Architecture and Business Administration (MBA) from the University of California, Los Angeles (USA), holds a Bachelors degree in architecture with a focus on historic preservation from LSU and is currently writing his PhD dissertation at the Universidad Politécnia de Madrid Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura.
Víctor Cano Ciborro (1987) is an Architect (2012) -Visiting Scholar in 2009 at CEPT University in Ahmedabad (India)- and Master in Advanced Architectural Projects (2013) by The Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid – ETSAM (UPM). Since 2014 he is a PhD Candidate at DPA-ETSAM where currently developed his PhD Dissertation about cartographies of overlooked spatial practices focused on body‘s sensations.
From 2012 to 2016 he has been Assistant Teacher in ETSAM taking part in grade, final master thesis and postgraduates’ academic programs. In 2015 he was Tutor of Unit 6 at the Summer School 2015 of the Architectural Association –AA- in London. Unit 6 established an installation so-called ‘Peepshow London’ as a way to critique stable forms in architecture and to reclaim concepts such as affects, atmospheres, bodies or instability in the architectural production. In 2016 he was Visiting Lecturer at Valparaíso University and Universidad Central in Santiago de Chile (Chile), and in 2017 has been Tutor in the International Workshop ‘Mystetskyi Arsenal: Spatial Development Scenarios’ in Kiev (Ukraine).
Currently, he is CEO/Research Project Director and founding partner of ‘Arquitectura Subalterna’, a radical spatialities group that promotes a transdisciplinary and sensitive architectural approach to post-colonial and post-war landscapes to foster ignored identities and aesthetics. Arquitectura Subalterna has been internationally recognised in Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016, Venice Biennale 2016: Reporting from the front, where won the First Prize of the ‘Unfinished’ competition curated by Spanish Pavilion, or Future Architecture Platform 2017, where Víctor was Lecturer at MAO –Museum of Architecture and Design- in Ljubljana (Slovenia).
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Víctor Cano Ciborro është arkitekt spanjollë si dhe nga viti 2014 kandidat për PhD në DPA-ETSAM ku aktualisht ka zhvilluar disertacionin e doktoraturës në lidhje me kartografitë e praktikave hapësinore të neglizhuara dhe të fokusuara në masat e trupit.
Nga viti 2012 deri në vitin 2016 ka qenë Asistent në ETSAM. Në vitin 2015 ai ishte tutor në Shkollën Verore 2015 të Shoqatës Arkitekturore -AA- në Londër. Gjithashtu ka ligjëruar në Universitete të shumta botërore si: Universitetin Valparaiso dhe Universidad Qendrore në Santiago de Chile (Kili) dhe në Punëtorinë Ndërkombëtare ‘Mystetskyi Arsenal: Skenarët e Zhvillimit Hapësinor’ në Kiev (Ukrainë).
Aktualisht, është drejtor i projektit hulumtues dhe partner themelues i ‘Arquitectura Subalterna’, një grup radikal i hapësirës që promovon një qasje arkitektonike transdisiplinare dhe që I kushton rëndësi të madhe peizazheve pas koloniale dhe pas luftës për të nxitur identitetet dhe estetikën e injoruar. Arquitectura Subalterna ka qenë e akredituar ndërkombëtarisht në Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016, Bienalja e Venecias 2016 “Reporting from the Front”, fitoi çmimin e parë të konkursit “Unfinished” të kuruar nga Pavilioni Spanjoll si dhe ishte njeri prej fituesve te thirrjes për ide kreative të Platformës Future Architecture 2017.
Merve Bedir is an architect. She is the partner of Rotterdam I Istanbul based Land+Civilization Compositions (L+CC) and a PhD candidate in Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture. Merve’s work focuses on a diversity of topics from urban transformation to displacement, migration, and common(s). She was a freelance curator for the Netherlands Architecture Institute (2012); the curator of Vocabulary of Hospitality (Studio X, Istanbul, 2015); and One Architecture Week (Plovdiv, 2015) under the title uncommon river. Merve is currently facilitating a kitchen and garden initiative by local and migrant women in Gaziantep, Turkey. She has published in One World (Dutch), Interartive, Volume, MONU, SRO (Dutch), Docomomo, Zivot (Croatian) and Quaderns. Merve occasionally blogs for uncube, Cairobserver and Failed Architecture. Her book with the title Vocabulary of Hospitality will be published by a collaboration of dpr-Barcelona and GSAPP Books.
Merve Bedir and Jason Hilgefort of L+CC, were the directors of Aformal Academy, a part of the education program of Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture Biennale, Shenzhen and Hong Kong. L+CC’s collaborations include Archis (Amsterdam), Dpr-Barcelona (Spain), Berlin Architecture Center (DAZ), African Center for Cities (Cape Town) and International New Town Institute (INTI), Hungarian Architecture Center (KEK), ZigZagCity (Rotterdam), EPFL, Cairo, Lusofna, Cottbus, Columbia Universities. L+CC won Europan 2012 in Vienna, and shared the third prize with Turenscape in Moscow’s Sokolniki Park competition.
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Merve Bedir është arkitekte dhe partnere e zyrës Land + Civilization Compositions (L + CC) e bazuar në Stambol. Merve është kandidate për PhD në Universitetin e Teknologjise Delft, Fakultetin e Arkitekturës. Puna e Merves fokusohet në një diversitet të temave nga transformimi urban në zhvendosje, migrim dhe në atë të përbashkët. Ajo ishte kuratore e pavarur për Institutin e Arkitekturës të Holandës (2012); kuratore e Vocabulary of Hospitality (Fjalori i Mikpritjes) (Studio X, Stamboll, 2015); dhe One Architecture Week (Plovdiv, 2015) në bazë të titullit Uncommon River. Merve për tani është e angazhuar në një kuzhinë dhe kopsht të iniciuar nga gratë lokale dhe imigrante në Gaziantep, Turqi. Merve Bedir ka publikime në One World (Dutch), Interartive, Volume, MONU, SRO (Dutch), Docomomo, Zivot (Croatian) dhe Quaderns. Merve herë pas here shkruan edhe në blogjet uncube, Cairobserver dhe Failed Architecture. Libri i saj me titull Vocabulary of Hospitality (Fjalori i Mikpritjes) do të publikohet në bashkëpunim me dpr-Barcelona dhe GSAPP Books.
Merve Bedir dhe Jason Hilgefort nga L + CC, ishin drejtorët të Akademisë Aformal, si pjesë e programit edukativ Bi-City Bienali i Urbanizmit \ Bienali i Arkitekturës, Shenzhen dhe Hong Kong. bashkëpunimet e L + CC përfshijnë Archis (Amsterdam), Dpr-Barcelona (Spanjë), Qendra e Arckitecturës Berlin (Daz), Qendra e Afrikës për Qytetet (Cape Town) dhe Instituti Ndërkombëtar New Town (INTI), Qendra Hungareze e Arkitekturës (KEK), ZigZagCity (Rotterdam), EPFL, Cairo, Lusofna, Cottbus, Universiteti Columbia. L + CC fitoi Europan 2012 në Vjenë, dhe ndanë çmimin e tretë me Turenscape në Konkursin Sokolniki Park, Moskë.