Hans HORTIG

Hans Hortig is a landscape architect and researcher. His research focuses on large-scale landscape transformation, resource extraction and concomitant urbanisation, and the role of more-than-human actors within such processes. His PhD, “Palm Oil Operations: Urbanising Agrarian Territories of Malaysia,” investigates the role of palm oil production in urbanisation processes on the Malaysian Peninsula. Hans has taught research and design studios at the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore and ETH Zurich, guided graduation theses at ETH Zurich and TU Berlin, and co-curated the lecture series “Sessions on Territory”. His work has been exhibited at the Rotterdam Biennale, Shenzhen Biennale for Architecture/Urbanism, SAM Basel, ZAZ Zurich, and the Academy of Arts Berlin. His scholarly work has been published in Archithese, GAM Magazine, Footprint Journal, and Arch Plus, and he is co-editing the forthcoming book “Singapore Beyond the Border” with Milica Topalovic.

Publications

• external page Plantation Technologies: More-Than-Human Histories of Operationalisation in the Palm Oil Production Territories of Johor State, Malaysia (2023)
• From Palm Oil Plantations to Villages: The Effects of the Plantationocene on Settlement Development (2020)
• Built on Foreign Sand: Singapore's Sand Hinterland and the Construction of Territory (2019)
  
• Architecture of Territory - Sea Region, Singapore, Johor, Riau Archipelago (2014)