Dr. Anna Grichting is an Architect, Urbanist and Musician. Her maternal origins lie in the divided city of Berlin while her paternal village straddles the Rostigraben in Switzerland, the linguistic barrier that both unites and separates the Latin and Germanic cultures of Switzerland. Her work explores the liminal territories of societies in conflict, in particular the interstitial spaces of boundaries and buffer zones and their future transformation as ecological and cultural landscapes of memory. She seeks to relate the physical rifts with the psychological barriers as well as addressing the questions of memory and forgetting in territories of trauma. She is particularly interested in exploring the disciplines of environmental Landscape and Urban Planning as instruments of mediation, as catalysts for reconciliation and as tools for visioning a new and sustainable future. She is currently working on a project for the Green Line of Cyprus, and the territories of her research include Israel/Palestine, Berlin and the Iron Curtain pan-European Green Belt and the Korean Demilitarized Zone. She has presented her work at numerous international conferences (including Korea, Palestine, Canada, USA/Mexico, Switzerland and Berlin) and she is collaborating with Dr. Saleem Ali on an Atlas of Future Peace Parks.

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