Jerzy Elżanowski

MArch Professional (McGill),

PhD (Bauhaus Weimar / UBC)

 

Assistant Professor

Carleton University

School of Canadian Studies

 

jerzy.elzanowski@carleton.ca

(613) 520 2600 ext. 4036

 

TEACHING

 

SEMINARS

 

Fall 2010, Postgraduate seminar, Warsaw Reconstructed – Witnessing war and culture in the post-catastrophic city, Institute for European Urban Studies, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

 

Summer 2009, seminar for youth, Archival Aerial Photography on the Internet, Warsaw History Meeting House.

 

INVITED LECTURES

 

“Warsaw Conversions”, Edinburgh University School of Architecture, March 29, 2011.

 

“Are ruins heritage?  Violence as cultural production in the heritage discourse,” Urban Heritage Lecture Series, Institute for European Urban Studies, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, November 2010.

 

“An Archive for Warsaw”, Edinburgh University School of Architecture Masters Studio, Warsaw - Tracking the City, Warsaw, October 2007.

 

 

WORKSHOPS, COMMUNITY PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS

 

Film workshop “Dreaming Objects,” (part of the Warsaw Reconstructed seminar) with Ella Chmielewska, Mark Dorrian, Suzanne Ewing and Katy Bentall, Warsaw, November 2011.

 

“Next City Detroit: Textur und Transformation in der Nachbarschaft,” exhibition of field notes by Bauhaus-Weimar PhD students curated by Kerstin Niemann, Kuensterhaus Sootboern, Hamburg, November 2011.

 

International PhD Dissertation Workshop, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, May 2010, with Liza Kam and Sukanya Krishnamurthy Institute for European Urban Studies, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

 

Co-founder of Architects in Action (with Jessica Gutwein), a group of young professionals formed to teach about design, space and the city to children ages 8-12 (in cooperation with the Canadian Centre for Architecture exhibition “Sense and the City,” Montréal, October 2005 – September 2006).

 

Co-organizer, McGill University Lecture Series (2003-2004).

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