Anna Grichting
Dr. Anna Grichting Solder
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-grichting-48845b9/
Anna Grichting is a Swiss architect, urbanist, and musician and graduated with a Doctor of Design in Urbanism from Harvard University. She works as an educator, researcher, practitioner and performer. Anna is passionate about designing with Nature and going beyond our Anthropocentric view of the world towards an inclusive society that gives rights to all living organisms and to the earth. Her professional experience includes working for the Mayors office in Geneva and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture. She has taught and conducted research at the Universities of Geneva, Harvard and Qatar, also collaborating with the Geneva School of Art and Design, MIT, and NYU, and she is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Vermont, Institute for Environmental Diplomacy and Security. At Qatar University, she was committed to empowering and inspiring her female students to become future leaders and with them she initiated a Living Laboratory to co-design the university campus for the Food Water Energy Waste Nexus with all the University communities. For this, she received an international grant from the Belmont Forum and Qatar Foundation. Anna works withmultidisciplinary approaches and collaborators on Regenerative Urban systems, Food Urbanism, Urban Biodiversity, Blue Urbanism, Urban Legacies of Mega Events, Public Art, Participative Public Space Design and Border Landscapes. Her work on borders proposes multistakeholder and socio-ecological approaches to anticipate and envision future developments in conflict zones and contribute to the fields of environmental, science and cultural diplomacy. Her lens is particularly focused on Women, Peace and the Environment, and how planning and spatial design can contribute to future sustainable landscapes and inclusive peace. As a musician she has produced and performed with the ensembles Desert Bridges in Qatar and Bahrain, Sufi Moon in Pakistan, and Bordermeetings in Switzerland and currently performs with her jazz trio Anna Jazz and Roses in Geneva. You can learn more about her at www.annagrichting.com and on Linkedin
