სიუზენ ჰარის-ბრანდტსი
ინიციატივის ავტორი | HBAS, M.Arch, PhD, OAA, LEED AP BD+C
harrisbrandts@collectivedomain.com
სუზან ჰარის-ბრანდტსი არის კოლექტიური სივრცე თანადამფუძნებელი. იგი ასევე არის არქიტექტურისა და ურბანიზმის ასოცირებული პროფესორი და ევროპის, რუსეთისა და ევრაზიის კვლევების ინსტიტუტის (EURUS) ასოცირებული პროფესორი კარლტონის უნივერსიტეტში. ადრე, ის ასწავლიდა მასაჩუსეტსის ტექნოლოგიური ინსტიტუტის არქიტექტურისა და დაგეგმარების სკოლაში (MIT-SA&P) და ვატერლოოს უნივერსიტეტის არქიტექტურის სკოლაში (UWSA). 2019 წელს, იგი მოწვეული ლექტორი იყო შავი ზღვის საერთაშორისო უნივერსიტეტში (IBSU), თბილისში, საქართველო. სუზანის კვლევა აერთიანებს დიზაინს და სოციალურ მეცნიერებებს, რათა შეისწავლოს ძალაუფლების, თანასწორობისა და კოლექტიური იდენტობის საკითხები გარემოში. მისი ნაშრომები მოიცავს თემებს, როგორიცაა სახელმწიფო შენობების მშენებლობა, ურბანული განვითარების წახალისება, ტურიზმის განვითარება, მემკვიდრეობის დაცვა, ურბანული მობილობა და კონფლიქტები თუ გადასახლება — ხშირად ყურადღების ცენტრში აყენებს დიზაინერის როლს. მისი ნაშრომები გამოქვეყნებულია სხვადასხვა პლატფორმაზე: წიგნებში, რეცენზირებულ ჟურნალებში, დიზაინის გამოცემებში, ლექციებში და გამოფენებში.
ჰარის-ბრანდტსს აქვს არქიტექტურის მაგისტრის ხარისხი ვატერლოოს უნივერსიტეტიდან და ურბანული და რეგიონული კვლევების დოქტორის ხარისხი MIT-დან. მისი სამაგისტრო ნაშრომი განიხილავდა არქიტექტურისა და ლანდშაფტის პოლიტიკას დასავლეთ სანაპიროს ოკუპირებულ სოფლებში. ნაშრომმა მოიპოვა კანადის სამეფო არქიტექტურის ინსტიტუტის (RAIC) სტუდენტური მედალი და გამოფენილი იყო მის მიერ თანა-კურატორებულ გამოფენაზე “Landscapes of Resistance: The Marshall Islands and Occupied Palestinian Territories,” რომელიც გაიმართა კემბრიჯის გალერეებში. მისი დოქტორანტული კვლევის პარალელურად, 2017-2018 წლებში, სუზანი ხელმძღვანელობდა კვლევით ინიციატივას "საქართველოს ხის მეჩეთები," რომელიც მიზნად ისახავდა აჭარის მთიან რეგიონში მუსლიმური თემების არქიტექტურული მემკვიდრეობის შესწავლას. პროექტი მოიცავდა 1817-1926 წლებში აშენებული 20-ზე მეტი ხის მეჩეთის დოკუმენტირებას. სუზანმა შემდეგ კურატორობა გაუწია მობილურ გამოფენას, პუბლიკაციას და ვებსაიტს, რომელიც დაფინანსდა გრაჰამის და ღია საზოგადოების ფონდების მიერ. ჰარის-ბრანდტსის კვლევის სხვა სფეროები დაფინანსებულია სოციალური მეცნიერებებისა და ჰუმანიტარულ კვლევების საბჭოს (SSHRC), აგა ხანის ფონდის, სლავური, აღმოსავლეთ ევროპისა და ევრაზიის კვლევების ასოციაციის (ASEEES) და MIT-ის მიერ.
მისი დისერტაციის საფუძველზე, რომელიც ეხება ურბანული განვითარების პოლიტიკასა და სურათის შექმნას დედაქალაქებში, სუზანის ამჟამინდელი წიგნის პროექტი "კაპიტალის კონსტრუქცია" მოიცავს ევრაზიის შემთხვევების ანალიზს. ის განიხილავს არქიტექტურასა და ურბანულ დიზაინს, რომლებიც ძალაუფლების შენარჩუნებისთვის გამოიყენება ჰიბრიდულ რეჟიმებში, და ამავე დროს აღნიშნავს ქვემოდან წამოსულ, თემებზე დაფუძნებულ წინააღმდეგობებს.
სუზანი ლიცენზირებული არქიტექტორია ონტარიოს არქიტექტორთა ასოციაციაში (OAA) და სერთიფიცირებული LEED AP BD+C. მას აქვს 10 წელზე მეტი პროფესიული გამოცდილება დიზაინის პრაქტიკაში, მათ შორის ტორონტოში, ვანკუვერში, ლონდონში (დიდი ბრიტანეთი), დასავლეთ სანაპიროსა და აბუ დაბიში. 2010 და 2011 წლებში, იგი იყო არქიტექტორი რეზიდენტობაში Decolonizing Architecture Art Research (DAAR)-თან, სადაც იკვლევდა არქიტექტურისა და ურბანული დაგეგმარების შედეგებს პოლიტიკური საზღვრების დონეზე. Lateral Office-ში მუშაობისას, ის იყო Arctic Adaptations: Nunavut at 15 პროექტის მოადგილე კურატორი, რომელიც კანადას წარმოადგენდა 2014 წლის ვენეციის არქიტექტურის ბიენალეზე და მოიპოვა ჟიურის სპეციალური აღნიშვნა. სუზანმა ასევე მონაწილეობა მიიღო Arctic Adaptations-ის კანადის მასშტაბით ტურში, რომელიც გაიმართა ვინიპეგის ხელოვნების გალერეაში, იუკონის ხელოვნების ცენტრში, ვანკუვერის მუზეუმში, ილინგვორტ კერის გალერეაში და Nunatta Sunakkutaangit მუზეუმში. Lateral Office-ში მუშაობისას, სუზანი იყო წამყვანი დიზაინ-კვლევითი წიგნისთვის "Many Norths: Spatial Practice in a Polar Territory" (Actar, 2017).
წიგნები:
Harris-Brandts, S. (In-progress manuscript). Constructing the Capital: The Politics of Urban Development and Image-making in Eurasia’s Hybrid Regimes.
Harris-Brandts, S., Gogishvili, D., & Sichinava, D. (In-progress manuscript). Socio-Spatial Georgia: The Politics of Urban Development in Batumi and Tbilisi.
Harris-Brandts, S., Wheeler, A. & Shioshvili, V. (2018). Wooden Mosques: Islamic Architectural Heritage in Adjara, Georgia. Tbilisi, Georgia: Chubinashvili National Research Centre for Georgian Art History and Heritage Preservation.
თავები აკადემიურ წიგნებში (რეცენზირებული):
Gogishvili, D. & Harris-Brandts, S. (Forthcoming, 2025). Iconic City Building for Power and Profit: The Evolving Nature of Large-scale Urban Development in Georgia. In Walker, C., Morris, J., Bindman, E., Golubchikov, O., Kubal, A., Kulmala, M, and Slade, G. (Eds.) Handbook of Eurasian Societies. Berlin: De Gruyter Academic Publishing.
Harris-Brandts, S., Havik, K. & Potworowski, I. (Forthcoming, 2025). Between Literature and Architecture. In Goffi, F., Potworowski, I. & Washco, K. (Eds.) Un)Common Precedents in Architectural Design. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge.
Harris-Brandts, S. (Forthcoming, 2024). The Monument to Fallen Diplomats. In Davidson, T. & Dean, D. (Eds.) In Granite and Bronze: A Critical Guide to the Monuments in Canada's National Capital. Montreal, QC: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Collective Domain (In press, 2024). Build It and They Will Come. In Gurgenidze, T. (Ed.) What Do We Have in Common?. Tbilisi, Georgia: Cezanne Printing House.
Harris-Brandts, S., & Sichinava, D. (2024). Re-conceptualizing the social, environmental, and political hazards associated with displacement in the Republic of Georgia. In Gaillard, J.C., Rodriguez Alarcón, M., Ocampo Go, C. (Eds.) Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Natural Hazard Science: On Cultural Perspectives. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Gogishvili, D., & Harris-Brandts, S. (2023). Up in the Air: Traces of Tbilisi’s Cable Cars. In Wheeler, A. (Ed.) Tbilisi: Architectural Guide. 166-178, Berlin, Germany: DOM Publishers.
Harris-Brandts, S. (2022). The ‘White Palace’ Party Headquarters: Architecture, Urban Design, and Power in North Macedonia. In Koch, N. (Ed.) Spatializing Authoritarianism. 86-112. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.
Gogishvili, D., & Harris-Brandts, S. (2022). The Urban Impacts of Second-tier Mega-Events in the Global East: The European Youth Olympic Festival in the South Caucasus. In Bignami, F., & Cuppini, N. (Eds.) Mega-Events, Urban Transformations and Social Citizenship: A Multi-Disciplinary Analysis for Epistemological Foresight. 94-113. London, UK: Routledge.
Harris-Brandts, S., & Polese, A. (2021). Between Sotsgorod and Bazaar: Urbanization Dynamics in Central Asia. In Van den Bosch, J. Fauve, A. & De Cordier, B. (Eds.), European Handbook of Central Asian Studies: History, Politics and Societies. 887-922. Hanover, Germany: Ibidem-Verlag.
Harris-Brandts, S., & Sichinava, D. (2021). The Politics of Urban Recovery in a Soviet-era Resort Town: Heritage Tourism and Displaced Communities in Tskaltubo, Georgia. In Al-Harithy, H. (Ed.) Urban Recovery: Intersecting Displacement with Post War Reconstruction. 271-294. London: Routledge.
Harris-Brandts, S., & Gogishvili, D. (2018). Up in the Air: Traces of Aerial Connectivity in Tbilisi. In Neuburg, K., Pranz,, S., Tseretelli, W., et al. (eds.), Archive of Transition. 94-102. Niggli Verlag Publishers. Salenstein, Switzerland.
Harris-Brandts, S. (2017). Informal Infrastructures of Dirt, Demolition, and Sewage in the West Bank. In S. McDowell, Water Index: Design Strategies for Drought, Flooding and Contamination . 149-155. New York, New York: Actar.
Harris-Brandts, S. (2017). Georgia and the South Caucasus. In S. Piesik, HABITAT: Vernacular Architecture for a Changing Planet. 327-330. London, UK: Thames & Hudson.
Harris-Brandts, S. (2013). Contesting Limits. In L. Sheppard & N. Bhatia (Eds.), Bracket: Goes Soft. New York, NY: Actar.
სტატეები ჟურნალებში (რეცენზირებული):
Harris-Brandts, S. (2024). Heritage Diplomacy, Neo-Ottomanism, and a Local Quest for a New Place of Worship: The Politics of Mosque Building in Batumi, Georgia. Fabrications, 34(2). Special issue: What is “shared”? Architectural Heritage in Conflict, (Guest Editors: Savia Palate and Panayiota Pyla), Taylor & Francis, 1-18.
Harris-Brandts, S., Gogishvili, D., & Sichinava, D. (2024). #SpendYourSummerInGeorgia: Popular Geopolitics and Tourism Marketing in Georgia-Russian Relations, Social and Cultural Geography, 1-19.
Harris-Brandts, S. (2024). Rapid Response Housing for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Ukraine. Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, 30(1). Special issue: The Reverberating Effects of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, Taylor & Francis, 44-51.
Harris-Brandts, S., Nikolko, M., Sahadeo, J. & Sichinava, D. (2024). Local Impacts, Global Consequences: Assessing the Mass Displacement and Migration Tied to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine. Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, 30(1). Special issue: The Reverberating Effects of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, Taylor & Francis, 1-10.
Harris-Brandts, S., & Sichinava, D. (2021). Architecture and Friendship Among Nations: The Shifting Politics of Cultural Diplomacy in Tbilisi, Georgia. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 27 (12). Taylor & Francis, 1213-1229.
Gogishvili, D., & Harris-Brandts, S. (2021). Projecting the Future: Novel Technologies of Spectacle in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. GeoAgenda, 21(3). Association Suisse de Géographie, 8-13.
Harris-Brandts, S., & Gogishvili, D. (2020). Lofty Ideals in Aerial Connectivity: Ideology in the Urban Cable Car Network of Tbilisi, Georgia. Eurasian Geography & Economics, T. Taylor & Francis.
Gogishvili, D., & Harris-Brandts, S. (2019). Coinciding practices of exception in urban development: mega-events and special economic zones in Tbilisi, Georgia. European Planning Studies, 1999-2019.
Gogishvili, D., & Harris-Brandts, S. (2019). The social and spatial insularity of internally displaced persons: “Neighborhood effects” in Georgia’s collective centres. Caucasus Survey, 7(2), 134-156.
Harris-Brandts, S., & Gogishvili, D. (2018). Architectural Rumors: Unrealized Megaprojects in Baku, Azerbaijan and their Politico-Economic Uses. Eurasian Geography & Economics, 59 (1), Taylor & Francis, 73-97.
Harris-Brandts, S. (2018). The Role of Architecture in the Republic of Georgia’s European Aspirations. Nationalities Papers. 46 (6), Taylor & Francis, 1118-1135.
Harris-Brandts, S. (2018). Building Vacancies: Tourism and Empty Real Estate in Batumi. Urbanistica Tre Journal, 15, Special Issue: Cities of the South Caucasus. Roma Tre Press, 45-56.
Harris-Brandts, S. (2017). ‘Europe Started Here’: Nation Building and Myth Production in the Republic of Georgia. Thresholds Journal. 45 (Myth), MIT Press, 124-135.
Harris-Brandts, S. (2016). Decentralize, Desecularize, and Deregulate! The transformation of Kutaisi, Georgia. In MONU Journal , 25 Independent Urbanism, 86-91. Bruil & van de Staaij.
მოწვეული რედაქტორი - ჟურნალის სპეციალური გამოშვება:
Harris-Brandts, S, Nikolko, M., Sahadeo, J., & Sichinava, D. (2024). Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, 30(1). Special issue: The Reverberating Effects of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, Taylor & Francis.
სტატეები (არარეცენზირებული):
Harris-Brandts, S. & Goci, E. (2023). Formalizing Tirana. OnSite Review, 43 (Temporary Architecture), 32-37.
Harris-Brandts, S. (2020). Designing Activism (Interview). In Galt Publication, Issue 3, Burning, 87-90. University of Waterloo.
Harris-Brandts, S. (2018). Could UNESCO World Heritage Status Help Refugee Camps? How to handle ‘refugee heritage’ from an architectural perspective. Frieze, November/December 2018, Special Issue on Decolonizing Culture. Frieze Publishing.
Harris-Brandts, S. (2013). Landscape in the West Bank. In Ground Journal, 21, Contested Terrain. Ontario Association of Landscape Architects.
Harris-Brandts, S. (2013). Unearthing Potential from Dirt, Demolition Debris, and Sewage in the West Bank. In Ground Up Journal, 2 Grit, 78-85. University of California, Berkley.
Harris-Brandts, S. (2013). Considering the Political Agency of Residual Landscapes in the West Bank. In Arena of Speculation.
Harris-Brandts, S. (2013).Extraterritorial Activation: Harnessing Potential from the Indeterminacy of Closed Military Zones in the West Bank. In Lunch Journal, 8 Futures for Sites Unknown, 176-183. University of Virginia.
Harris-Brandts, S. (2012). Decaying Jurisdictions in the West Bank. In Shift Journal, 2 Process, 47-52. University of North Carolina.
წიგნის მიმოხილვები (რეცენზირებული):
Harris-Brandts, S. (2024). [Book Review] Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope. Sorkin, M. and Sharp, D. (Eds.). The American University in Cairo Press. Journal of Architectural Education - JAE, Taylor & Francis.
Harris-Brandts, S. (2020). [Book Review] Iconic Planned Communities and the Challenge of Change. Corbin Sies, M., Gournay, I, and Freestone, R. (Eds.). University of Pennsylvania Press. Journal of Historical Geography, 110-111.
Harris-Brandts, S. (2019). Revisiting State Spectacle Through the New Capitals of Asia [Author-Critic Forum for: The Geopolitics of Spectacle: Space, Synecdoche, and the New Capitals of Asia by N. Koch]. Central Asian Affairs. Vol. 6, No. 6.4.
მომხსენებლის მიწვევები:
Urban (In)Flux: The Impact of Russian Emigres, Alliances, and Legacies on Urban Processes and Space in Tbilisi. “Tbilisi transformed.” Institute for Russian, European, and Eurasian Studies (IREES) at the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, Nov 2023.
Sustainability Talks 2021 “Greenwashing for State Power Gain: The Manipulation of Iconic Eco Designs under Eurasia’s Authoritarian Regimes.” Bosch Alumni Network Germany; *Online, 30 November 2021.
Kuma International Architecture Month 2021 “Living Borders: Bosnia & Herzegovina in dialogue with Palestine.” Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina; *Online, 28 October 2021.
Research Roundtables in Methodology “Tbilisi as an Urban Assemblage” Ilia State University; Tbilisi, Georgia *Online, 23 September 2021.
Trialog Annual Conference “In-Between World”: Cooperation and collaboration between Western actors and Eastern European urban initiatives and NGOs.” Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies, Erasmus University *Online, 09 September 2021.
Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, “The Political Life of Architecture I: Power and Corruption in Skopje’s “White Palace” Party Headquarters. University of Toronto; 25 February 2021.
Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, “The Political Life of Architecture II: Soft Power and Politics in the Adaptive Reuse of Tbilisi’s Institute of Marx, Engels, and Lenin Building.” University of Toronto; 28 January 2021.
Institute of European, Russian & Eurasian Studies, “Friendship, Modernization, or Hegemony? Exploring Soft Power Design Narratives and Politics in the Conversion of Tbilisi’s Institute of Marx, Engels, and Lenin Building.” Carleton University, EURUS Program, 19 November 2020.
Write On 2020: A Themed Writing Workshop. “Rooted - Togetherness in the Built Environment.” Invited Session Lead.
კონფერენციის პრეზენტაციები [კონკურსით მიღება რეცენზირებული ანოტაციებით]:
The Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) Annual International Conference. “Smart, Sustainable, and Pandemic-Proof or Cleansed for Power and Profit? Contemporary Imaginaries of Hazard and Health Driving Dispossession in Albania.” London, England, 27-30 August 2024, w/ E. Goci.
Architecture, Media, Politics, Society (AMPS) International Conference. “Building the City, Building Strongmen: Leveraging Iconic Urban Development for Power and Politics in Tirana, Albania.” Barcelona, Spain & Online, 15-17 July 2024, w/ E. Goci.
Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) Annual International Conference. “By Air, Land, and Sea: The Concerning Growth of Parallel Infrastructures and Bypass Urbanism in Georgia.” Almaty, Kazakhstan, 6-9 June 2024, w/ D. Gogishvili.
Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) Annual International Conference. “Emirati Urban Development in the Global East: Illiberal Practices at Home or Imported Authoritarian City Building?” Almaty, Kazakhstan, 6-9 June 2024, w/ D. Sichinava, D. Gogishvili.
Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual International Conference. “Shared Islamic Architectural Heritage? Conflict over Turkey’s Foreign Mosque Building and Disempowering Local Communities.” Montreal & Online, 20-22 September 2023.
Weaving Worlds: Speculations Between Affect & Evidence International Conference.. *Organised by Topological Atlas (UCL Urban Lab). “Speculations on the Power of Redefined Typologies.” 28-30 June 2023, Department of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. For HiLo/YOW+, w/ P. Bernbaum, O. Saloojee, B. Satterfield, T. Tak.
British Association for Slavonic & East European Studies (BASEES) Annual International Conference. “Architecture, Spectacle, and Digital Projections in Astana, Kazakhstan.” Glasgow, Scotland, 31 March 2023. w/ D. Gogishvili.
Community for Artistic and Architectural Research (CA2RE) Aarhus ‘Exchanging’ International Conference 2023. “POST: Narratives in Canadian architecture and the material stories that underpin them.” 23–25 March 2023, Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark. For HiLo/YOW+, w/ P. Bernbaum, O. Saloojee, B. Satterfield, T. Tak.
Global Consequences of Displacement from Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: Space, Place and Pluralism. Conference Organizers and Presenters: Session 2: Internal Displacement: Governance. “Protracted Displacement in Georgia: Governance Issues and Ongoing Challenges to IDP Livelihood.” Global Centre for Pluralism, Ottawa, Canada, 03-04 November 2022. with J. Sahadeo; M. Nikolko; D. Carment; D. Sichinava. Paper with: D. Sichinava
Cities After Transition (CAT) Annual Meeting. Session Organizers and Presenters: Dual Sessions 5A, 5B: “The Socio-Political Impacts of Large-Scale Urban Development.” Budapest, Hungary, 27-29 June 2022. w/ D. Sichinava, D. Gogishvili.
American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting. “Exporting Authoritarian City Building: Entangled Illiberal Practices in Emirati Urban Development within Georgia.” New York, NY, USA *Online, April 2022. w/ D. Sichinava, D. Gogishvili.
Architecture, Media, Politics, Society (AMPS) Conference, “Toward a New Present in Architectural Education: Looking Back to the 1960s and 1970s Avant-Garde for Introductory Design Studio Teaching.” Online due to COVID-19; 22 April 2021, with Zachary Colbert & Maya Jarrah.
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Annual Meeting. Invited Session Moderator: Culture and Heritage. Online due to COVID-19. 25 March 2021.
Green Mobilisations in the Cities of Central Asia and South Caucasus. Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan & Tbilisi, Georgia; November 2019. “Opportunities for Activist-Academic Collaboration in Soviet-era Mono-towns” American University of Central Asia, Tbilisi State University.
19th Annual Aleksanteri Conference: Technology, Culture, and Society in Eurasian Space Helsinki, Finland; October 2019. “Projecting the Future: Novel Technologies of Spectacle in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. University of Helsinki
City Debates 2019: Urban Recovery @ the Intersection of Displacement and Reconstruction. Beirut, Lebanon; April 2019. “The Politics of Urban Recovery in a Stalinist-era Resort Town: Heritage Tourism and Displaced Communities in Tskaltubo, Georgia.”
Urban Forum on Land Use and Urban Planning Practices in Cities of EU Associated Countries. Tbilisi, Georgia; March 2019. “Understanding Social Restructuring and Urban Renewal Strategies.”
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Annual Convention Boston, MA, USA; December 2018.*Session Co-Organizer with David Sichinava: The Roles of Selective Remembering and Forgetting in Transforming Post-Socialist Cities.
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Annual Meeting: The Continuing City. Buffalo, NY, USA; October 2018. Megaproject Rumors: The Politico-Economic Uses of Unbuilt Eco-Island Proposals in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) 19th Annual Conference. Pittsburgh, PA, USA; October 2018. Author-Critic Forum: The Geopolitics of Spectacle: Space, Synecdoche, and the New Capitals of Asia.
European Architectural History Network (EAHN). Tallinn, Estonia; June 2018. Europe’s Own Islamic Architecture: Heritage, Contestation, and Necessity
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Annual Meeting: Cities, Regions and Growth. Denver, CO, USA; October 2017. “The Restructuring of Urban Space for Tourism in Post-Revolutionary Batumi, Georgia”
Urban Transformation: Post-Revolutionary Geographies of Cairo. Cairo, Egypt; June 2017. “The New Geographies of Capital Cities.” American University of Cairo/ Cairo University.
Space, Society, Politics – The Regional Aspects of Sustainable Development. Tbilisi, Georgia; June 2017. “Tourism Development During State Building: The Case of Post-Revolutionary Batumi, Georgia.” Tbilisi State University
American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting. Boston, MA, USA; April 2017. “The Role of Architecture in Post-Soviet Georgia’s European Aspirations.”
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Annual Meeting: The Expanding Periphery. Toronto, Canada; March 2015. “The Humanitarian Architect: Notes on Ethical Engagement” University of Toronto, Ryerson University & University of Waterloo.
After Empirical Urbanism. Toronto, Canada; February 2015. “Urbanism and Displacement” University of Toronto: John H Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design.
Debating Decolonizations Conference. Kingston, Canada; September 2014. “The Architect-Activist.” Queen’s University: Department of Global Development Studies.
Thinking Architecture Symposium. Cambridge, Canada; March 2014.“Architecture and Landscape Architecture’s political forays” University of Waterloo: School of Architecture.
Between Architecture of War and Military Urbanism. Tallinn, Estonia; April 2013. “Political Economy of Land in the Occupied West Bank” Estonian Academy of Arts: Faculty of Architecture.
გამოფენები:
Harris-Brandts, S. “Architecture + Literature.” Lightroom Gallery, Ottawa, Canada. CR|PT|C Agora II Symposium, (Un)Common Precedents Exhibition (2023).
Harris-Brandts, S., Wheeler, A. & Shioshvili, V. “Wooden Mosques: Islamic Heritage in the Republic of Georgia.” Ottawa, Canada. The Canadian Architecture Forums on Education (CAFÉs), Carleton University (2022).
Harris-Brandts, S., Sichinava, D. & Gogishvili, D. “Build it and They Will Come.” Tbilisi and Batumi, Georgia. Tbilisi Architecture Biennial - What Do We Have in Common? (2020).
Harris-Brandts, S., Wheeler, A. & Shioshvili, V. “Wooden Mosques: Islamic Heritage in the Republic of Georgia.” Tbilisi and Batumi, Georgia. Tbilisi Night of Photography (2019); National Research Centre for Georgian Art History & Heritage Preservation (2018); Contemporary Art Space Batumi (2018): Odessa-Batumi Photo-Days Festival (2017).
Harris-Brandts, S. “Crossing Borders - Design Responses to Global Issues in the Developing World.” The Larry Wayne Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (2013).
Cambridge Galleries “Landscapes of Resistance: The Marshall Islands + Occupied Palestinian Territories”. Cambridge, ON October 2012
გრანტები, დაფინანსება, ჯილდოები და აღიარებები:
2024 - Carleton International Research Seed Grant (IRSG) *Successful
2023/25 - SSHRC Insight Development Grant *Successful
“Megaproject Mirages: Uncovering the Politico-Economic Uses of Speculative Eco-flagships in the ‘Global East’”
2022/23 (Fall) - SSHRC Connection Grant *Successful
2022/24 (Spring) - SSHRC Connection Grant *Successful
“Displacement in Wartime; Routes and Destinations, Space, Place and Pluralism: Russia's Invasion, Ukrainian Actions and Consequences for Europe and Eurasia”
2022 - La Biennale di Venezia, Canada Pavilion *Unsuccessful
*1 of 4 Shortlisted Submissions
“POST: Narratives in Canadian architecture and the material stories that underpin them”
2021/26 - SSHRC Insight Grant *Successful
“Gardens Otherwise and Elsewhere: A Historical and Ethnographic study of Georgian Gardens”
2018/22 - National Science Foundation of Georgia: Fundamental Research Grant *Successful
“Examining the Social Impacts of Large, Private Sector Urban Development in Batumi and Tbilisi, Georgia”
2020 - Tbilisi Architecture Biennial Design Competition *Successful
2019 - SSHRC Doctoral Award *Successful
2019 - Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) *Successful
2019 - MIT Lynne Sagalyn and Gary Hack Dissertation Research Fellowship *Successful
2019 - UK Global Challenges Research Fund *Unsuccessful finalists
“Establishing an Infrastructural Development, Conflict, and Displacement Network”
2018 - Open Society Foundation Georgia, Collective Initiative Grant *Successful
“The Wooden Mosques of Adjara” Research, Publication and Exhibition
2018 - MIT Lloyd and Nadine Rodwin Research Travel Fellowship *Successful
2018 - MIT Priscilla King Gray Public Service Fellowship *Successful
2018 - MIT Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies Research Collaboration Award *Successful
“Memoirs of Change: Urban Transformation in Skopje, North Macedonia”
2017 - Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts *Successful
2017 - MIT Centre for International Studies Fellowship *Successful
2017 - MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) Egypt, *Successful
Project “Urban Transformations: Post-Revolutionary Geographies of Cairo, Egypt"
2016 - Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture Research Grant *Successful
2015 - MIT Horowitz Fellowship for Field Research *Successful
2015 - MIT Presidential Fellowship for PhD Studies *Successful
2013 - Canada Council for the Arts: Prix de Rome in Architecture for Emerging Practitioners *Unsuccessful Finalist; Competitively selected University of Waterloo representative
2013 - Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) Medal for Outstanding Thesis
2013 - Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) Medal for Top Academic Average
2012 - Architecture for Humanity: Crossing Borders Competition (First Place)