Alexandra Novosseloff
Alexandra Novosseloff
Alexandra Novosseloff is a research associate at the Centre Thucydide, a research center of the University of Paris-Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2). She holds a PhD in political science from that University and is specialized in the field of international organizations, peacekeeping, the relationships between the United Nations and regional organizations. In 2002-2003, she was a visiting fellow at the International Peace Academy in New York and worked on a report on “UN-EU Cooperation in Crisis Management”. In 2000, she was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Security Studies of the Western European Union. In 1996-1997, she was a consultant at the Analysis and Forecasting Office of the UNESCO.
She ist one author oft the book „Des murs entre les hommes“ („Walls between People“ ) and has visited all still existing walls for this project. The exhibition „Walls between People“ was shown in the Red Cross Muesum in Geneva in 2008 and is currently travelling around the world. In Berlin an exhibition of her photographs in the Institut français takes place from 9 October 2009 – 30 November 2009.
Anna Grichting
Anna Grichting
Dr. Anna Grichting is an Architect, Urbanist and Musician. She began her work and research on borders in Berlin in 1989, just prior to the fall of the Wall, designing a project for the No Man’s Land and proposing a Landscape of Memory. She is currently working on a project for the Green Line Buffer Zone of Cyprus, and is also collaborating with Dr. Saleem Ali on an Atlas: Zones of Peace. An Atlas of Ecological Cooperation. Other territories of research include Israel/Palestine, Berlin and the Iron Curtain pan-European Green Belt and the Korean Demilitarized Zone. She has presented her work at numerous international conferences (including Korea, Palestine, Canada, USA/Mexico, Switzerland and Germany).
Anna Grichting's research on boundaries has been integrated into her practice as an architect and urbanist and also extends to art works (the Cyprus Chess Boards 2008) and musical recordings and performances (Border Meetings 1999, Sufi Moon 2002 and Mouthpiece for Hydra Spatial Sound Systems 2006-07).
She has taught Urban Theory and Urban Design studios at the University of Geneva, Switzerland and Harvard University, and organized student workshops and study trips on the Berlin Wall, the Cyprus Green Line and the Korean Demilitarized Zone. She was a visiting research fellow at the MIT Department of Urban Studies and is currently developing an Education Initiative with Aga Khan Award for Architecture Projecting the Dead Zone of Nicosia. She is a partner of Justice Unlimited, founded by Dr. Rama Mani and is also a member of the DZF German Cypriot Forum, as well as the Korea DMZ Coalition.
Sami Mura
Sami Mura
Born in Bethlehem in 1982, studied Architecture at Birzeit University Ramallah. In 2009 Sami Mura received a Master degree in Urban Management from the TU Berlin. He is currently working for UNRWA (United Nation for Relief and work Agency for Palestinian Refugees) on a Camp Improvement Program that aims to improve the living condition of refugees.
Sami Mura has attended the international student exchange programme “Grenzgeografien”, a research focused on the study of the spatial and architectural implications of urban conflict in Israel/ Palestine (2003-05). He worked as a research officer at the Camp Development Pilot Research Project led by the University of Stuttgart (Germany) in cooperation with the United Nations UNRWA and funded by the European Union, which led to the establishment of the UNRWA Camp Improvement Program (2005-07). He got an internship with UNRWA to work in the reconstruction plan of Naher Al-Bared refugee camp in Lebanon (2008). He has worked as a consultant for Deutsche GTZ (Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit) aiming to develop practical mechanisms for a sustainable stakeholder communication and interaction between Refugee camps structure and neighboring Localities structure (2008-09).
Thierry Denis
Thierry Denis
Thierry Denis is a French Director and Photographer. He studied Cinema in the University La Sorbonne in Paris, where he learned the visual technics both in the photographic field and in the cinema field. In 2005, he directed his first short film, « Bittersweet Poison » and began to work with the production company Helium Films on corporate movies. In parallel, Thierry Denis worked on different kinds of photographic projects that led him to two portrait exhibitions in 2006 and 2007.
While he traveled around the world, he became greatly concerned by politics and social issues. In 2009, he began to work on the subject of border walls that are being built all around the world since the fall of the Berlin Wall. In collaboration with Guy Ratovondrahona, the Helium Film producer, he made a 52 minutes documentary on that subject : The Walls of Shame. This film is going to be released for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on a French TV channel, Public Senat.
Grit Kümmele
Presentation: Grit Kümmele
Grit Kümmele has been working as a teacher, trainer, lecturer, project-, conference and event manger, as conceptual designer and as an artist in national and international projects. She had been Study Site Director for Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. in Berlin for 15 years and works for open door international as area representative Berlin of the PPP exchange program of the German Bundestag and the U.S.Congress. Grit Kümmele is very experienced in designing and conducting international trainings and workshops. She is spokeswoman of the Berlin-Brandenburg International Studies Network (BISS), an active member of the New Traditions Network (NTN) and chairperson of the association circle of friends of the Amerika Haus Berlin. She has organized and curated numerous art exhibitions and projects and participated with her own artistic work. She works for the NYU Spring Program in Berlin as an instructor for art in public space projects.
