Anna Grichting Solder, Dr. (anna.grichting)

Dr. Anna Grichting is an architect, urbanist and musician and holds a Doctor of Design from Harvard University. Her ongoing work on Liminal Landscapes in territories in conflict connects the physical rifts with the psychological barriers, addressing the questions of memory and forgetting in the spaces of trauma, and exploring the disciplines of Environmental Planning as instruments of mediation, as catalysts for reconciliation and as tools for visioning a new and sustainable future. Her prospective research is applied to the Green Line Buffer Zone in Cyprus but also includes Israel/Palestine, Berlin and the Iron Curtain, the Demilitarized Zone in Korea, and she has presented her work in international conferences worldwide. She has taught Urban Theory and Urban Design studios at the Universities of Geneva and Harvard and has been a visiting fellow and design critic at MIT and Colombia University. She organized student workshops and field trips on the Berlin Wall, the Cyprus Green Line and the Korean Demilitarized Zone. She is presently collaborating with Dr. Saleem Ali on an Atlas of Ecological Cooperation: Zones of Peace and developing an Education Initiative with the Aga Khan Award for Architecture Projecting the Dead Zone of Nicosia.