Jens Haendeler

Jens Haendeler is a Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at Manchester School of Architecture since 2024. Previously, he directed the Urban Studies & Spatial Practices program at Al-Quds Bard College, Palestine (2017-2022) and contributed to the IGA 2027 Green Infrastructure Framework (2022-2024). He is a chartered member of the German Chamber of Architects and serves as a trustee for the Landscape Research Group.

• Current role: Unit Lead for MLA Dissertations
• Previous roles: Director at Al-Quds Bard College, IGA 2027 Landscape Planner

His research frames landscape as a discursive category intersecting materiality, representation, and social practices. He investigates colonial modernity, subaltern sovereignty claims, and performative memory production through projects like the Atlas Al-‘Ain, a counter-archive examining Palestinian 'return' practices. Key themes include:

• Weaponised landscapes in refugee contexts
• Decolonial memory construction in Palestine
• Translation as epistemic intervention
• Commoning land and memory against enclosure

Haendeler's pedagogy merges Augusto Boal's Spect-Actor model with Palestinian oral traditions, creating participatory spaces for community-led knowledge production. His collaborative outputs have been exhibited at Haus der Statistik (Berlin), Jordan National Gallery, and Radio AlHara (Palestine).