Christoph Hesse – Teaching and Research
2020 –
Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University
(Design studios: al-Azhar Park Kairo; documenta fifteen, Kassel; Cultural centre, Beijing/Paris)
Visiting Professor at Tianjin University
(Design studios: Daegu Global Studio, South Korea; Architecture – Music – Poetry, Kassel/Qinhuangdao)
Visiting Design Critic at Yale University
(Entwurfsstudio: Reinventing Referinghausen – Xu Tiantian, Tei Carpenter, Fall Term 2022)
2017-2019
Associate Professor at University of Kassel (experimenta urbana)
(Design Studios: Beiji Island, China; Ways of Life, Edersee; Brücker Mühle, Amöneburg)
2014-2018
Urban researcher at the International Academy Berlin (FU Berlin/GLOBUS) and Cairo University
(Project: Cairo Imbaba)
2013-2014
Guest Professor for urban design in the Mundus Urbano program at the TU Darmstadt
(Modules: architecture and urban design, spatial design, urban theory)
2013-2015
Researcher and consultant for the UN Cities and Climate Change Academy of the United Nations, New York/Nairobi
(Modules: climate-adapted architecture and spatial design, sustainable urban design concepts)
2008-2015
Researcher for the Megacity Research Project Saigon of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Berlin/Saigon
(Work Package 9: Townhouses, architecture and urban design)
2007-2008
Researcher and consultant for the Urban Environmental Planning Program of the European Union,, Brussels/Saigon
(Development of a postgraduate course at HCMC University of Architecture)
2008-2014
Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt
(Design studios: Rostov on Don, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Saigon, Tirana, Barcelona, Paris, Damascus)
2005-2007
Instructor und Teaching Fellow an der Harvard University
(Design Studio: Design Discovery, Boston)