Hans Hortig

is a landscape architect and researcher, currently pursuing his PhD on palm oil territories in Johor State, Malaysia. He studied landscape architecture and open space planning at the Technical University Berlin, the ETH Zurich and the School of Design, Mysore. Since 2013 he has taught research and design studios at the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore and the ETH Zurich, and guided graduation thesis at ETH Zurich and TU Berlin. Hans is a co-curator of the lecture series Sessions on Territory and contributed to several exhibitions such as the Rotterdam Biennale 2014, the Shenzhen Biennale for Architecture/Urbanism 2015, or SAM Basel 2019. His scholarly work has been published by Archithese, GAM Magazine and ISEAS Publishers, and he is co-editing the forthcoming book Singapore Beyond the Border with Milica Topalovic. His current main research project focuses on Palm Oil Territories.

hortig@arch.ethz.ch