{"id":11445,"date":"2020-11-05T15:34:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T20:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=11445"},"modified":"2025-11-19T10:47:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:47:16","slug":"suzanne-harris-brandts","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/people\/suzanne-harris-brandts\/","title":{"rendered":"Suzanne Harris-Brandts"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Faculty Appointment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>School of Architecture and Urbanism<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Faculty Affiliation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Suzanne Harris-Brandts<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>is Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at Carleton University, a licensed architect (OAA), and founding partner of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kolektiuri.com\/\"><em>Collective Domain<\/em><\/a>, a practice for spatial analysis, urban activism, architecture, and media in the public interest.&nbsp; Her research brings together design and the social sciences to explore issues of power, equity, and collective identity in the built environment. It covers topics as broad spanning as iconic city building, incentivized urbanism, contested place meanings, and design\u2019s relationship to conflict-induced displacement\u2014often foregrounding the role of designer agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>contemporary South Caucasus and Balkans<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>iconic city building, including mega-projects, mega-events, and incentivized urbanism<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>politics of urban development and image-making, particularly in capital cities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>contested place meanings and reflections of identity in the built environment<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>design\u2019s relationship to conflict-induced displacement<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>design and designer socio-political agency<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research<br>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2023-25 SSHRC Insight Development Grant <\/strong>(PI) \u201cMegaproject Mirages: Uncovering the Politico-Economic Uses of Speculative Eco-flagships in the \u2018Global East\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2021-26 SSHRC Insight Grant <\/strong>(Co-applicant) \u201cGardens Otherwise and Elsewhere: A Historical and Ethnographic study of Georgian Gardens\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2022-24 SSHRC Connection Grant <\/strong>(Co-applicant) \u201cDisplacement in Wartime; Routes and Destinations, Space, Place and Pluralism: Russia&#8217;s Invasion, Ukrainian Actions and Consequences for Europe and Eurasia\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2022-23 SSHRC Connection Grant <\/strong>(Co-applicant) \u201cAgora II: (Un)Common Precedents\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2020 Tbilisi Architecture Biennial <\/strong>(PI for Collective Domain) \u201cBuild it and they will come\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2018-22 NSF Georgia Fundamental Research Grant <\/strong>(Co-applicant) \u201cExamining the Social Impacts of Large, Private Sector Urban Development in Batumi and Tbilisi, Georgia\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Select Publications <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Harris-Brandts, S., Gogishvili, D., &amp; Sichinava, D. <\/strong>&nbsp;(2024). #SpendYourSummerInGeorgia: Popular Geopolitics and Tourism Marketing in Georgia-Russian Relations, <em>Social and Cultural Geography<\/em>, 1-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Harris-Brandts, S.<\/strong> (2024). Heritage Diplomacy, Neo-Ottomanism, and a Local Quest for a New Place of Worship: The Politics of Mosque Building in Batumi, Georgia. <em>Fabrications, 34(2). Special issue: What is \u201cshared\u201d? Architectural Heritage in Conflict,<\/em> 1-18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Harris-Brandts, S., &amp; Sichinava, D. <\/strong>(2024). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/acrefore\/9780199389407.013.492\"><em>Re-conceptualizing the social, environmental, and political hazards associated with displacement in the Republic of Georgia<\/em><\/a>. In Gaillard, J.C., Rodriguez Alarc\u00f3n, M., Ocampo Go, C. (Eds.) <em>Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Natural Hazard Science. <\/em>Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Harris-Brandts, S. &amp; Goci, E.<\/strong> (2023). Formalizing Tirana. <a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/onsitereview\/docs\/onsite_43_time\"><em>OnSite Review<\/em>, 43 (Temporary Architecture)<\/a>, 32-37.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Harris-Brandts, S. <\/strong>(2022). The \u2018White Palace\u2019 Party Headquarters: Architecture, Urban Design, and Power in North Macedonia. In Koch, N. (Ed.) <a href=\"https:\/\/press.syr.edu\/supressbooks\/4773\/spatializing-authoritarianism-2\/\"><em>Spatializing Authoritarianism<\/em><\/a>. 86-112. Syracuse University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Harris-Brandts, S., &amp; Sichinava, D. <\/strong>(2021). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/13527258.2021.1950027\">Architecture and Friendship Among Nations: The Shifting Politics of Cultural Diplomacy in Tbilisi, Georgia<\/a><em>. International Journal of Heritage Studies<\/em>, 27 (12), 1213-1229.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Harris-Brandts, S., &amp; Sichinava, D. <\/strong>(2021). The Politics of Urban Recovery in a Soviet-era Resort Town: Heritage Tourism and Displaced Communities in Tskaltubo, Georgia. In Al-Harithy, H. (Ed.) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Urban-Recovery-Intersecting-Displacement-with-Post-War-Reconstruction\/Al-Harithy\/p\/book\/9780367550424\"><em>Urban Recovery: Intersecting Displacement with Post War Reconstruction<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em>271-294. London, UK: Routledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Harris-Brandts, S., &amp; Gogishvili, D.<\/strong> (2020). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/15387216.2020.1801479\">Lofty Ideals in Aerial Connectivity: Ideology in the Urban Cable Car Network of Tbilisi, Georgia<\/a>. <em>Eurasian Geography &amp; Economics, <\/em>65 (3), 289-319.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gogishvili, D., &amp; Harris-Brandts, S.<\/strong> (2020). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/09654313.2019.1701995\">Coinciding Practices of Exception in Urban Development: Sports Events and Special Economic Zones<\/a>. <em>European Planning Studies<\/em>, 28 (10), 1999-2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gogishvili, D., &amp; Harris-Brandts, S.<\/strong> (2019). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/23761199.2019.1617652\">The Social and Spatial Insularity of Internally Displaced Persons: \u201cNeighbourhood Effects\u201d in Georgia\u2019s Collective Centres<\/a>. <em>Caucasus Survey<\/em>, 7(2), 134-156.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Harris-Brandts, S., &amp; Gogishvili, D.<\/strong> (2018). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/15387216.2018.1462725\">Architectural Rumors: Unrealized Megaprojects in Baku, Azerbaijan and their Politico-Economic Uses<\/a>. <em>Eurasian Geography &amp; Economics, <\/em>59 (1), 73-97.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Harris-Brandts, S.<\/strong>&nbsp;(2018). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/00905992.2018.1488827\">The Role of Architecture in the Republic of Georgia\u2019s European Aspirations<\/a>. <em>Nationalities Papers<\/em>. 46 (6), 1118-1135.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11451,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Suzanne ","cu_people_last_name":"Harris-Brandts ","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-11445","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Assistant Professor - Contemporary Politics of the Built Environment and City Building ","cu_people_degree":"HBAS (Waterloo), M. 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