הרצאה במסגרת הקולוקוויום : ד"ר דן הנדל - Forest Primers

12 במרץ 2020, 10:00

ההרצאה הראשונה בסדרה היא של ד"ר דן הנדל בנושא :Forest Primers.

תקציר ההרצאה:

Trees and forests play a decisive role in the cultural imagination of civilizations around the world. Yet architects, planners, even landscape architects still see trees as objects to be added or subtracted, as backdrop, as decoration, as pretty much everything apart from what they really are – living organisms that can tell us much about our design and our cultures.The presentation, following a decade-long research that began with a chance encounter and then turned into field research, peer-review texts and a couple of exhibitions, asks why is this the case, and highlights ideas, practices, and projects that go beyond the use of forests as metaphor or alibi and undermine the forests vs. civilization paradigm, thus suggesting new ways in which the histories of architecture and forestry can inform each other.

אודות ד"ר דן הנדל

Dan Handel is an architect and curator whose work focuses on research-based exhibitions with special attention to underexplored ideas, figures, and practices that shape contemporary built environments. He was the inaugural Young Curator at the at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, has developed exhibitions for the Venice Biennale and the New Institute in Rotterdam, and was curator of architecture and design at the Israel Museum. Handel holds an MArch from the Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, and a PhD from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology. His writing has appeared in Harvard Design Magazine, e-flux Architecture, Thresholds, Frame, San Rocco, Pin-Up, Bracket, and the Journal of Landscape Architecture, among others. He is the editor of the publications Aircraft Carrier (Hajte Cantz, 2012), Yasky and Co. (Tel Aviv Museum, 2016), and Manifest: A Journal of American Architecture and Urbanism.