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)

 

2003-2004

Instructor und Teaching Assistant at ETH Zürich

(Design Studio: First Year’s Course)