ABOUT

ALESA MUSTAR 
DIPL. ING. (ARCH), M.A.



Working at the intersection of curating, urban research, and teaching, with a focus on social design, post-migrant spatialities, and critical curating. Research engages with informal urbanisms, crisis geographies, and the politics of spatial agency, emphasizing subsidiary and collective forces in shaping urban environments.

With a background in Architecture and Urbanism alongside a Master’s in Spatial Sociology, experience spans artistic, cultural, and urban contexts across Argentina, Lebanon, and Europe. As former Artistic Co-Director of the Deutsches Architektur Zentrum (DAZ) in Berlin, curatorial work explored spatial practices through critical discourse at the intersection of architecture, politics, and social movements.

Teaching engagements at various universities, such as UdK Berlin, TH Lübeck, HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd, and TH Dortmund reflect a commitment to research-driven and collaborative methodologies. Pedagogical practice encourages students to navigate urban complexities through analytical and experimental inquiry. Particular emphasis is placed on relational thinking, open-ended exploration, and ways of reading and representing urban realities beyond established frameworks.

Curatorial and theoretical work foregrounds spatial justice and collective agency, examining the entanglements of built environments, socio-political structures, and lived experience. Questions of access, resistance, and reconfiguration guide both research and practice—exploring how spatial interventions can challenge dominant frameworks, reclaim agency in constrained spaces, and open new imaginaries for shared urban futures.

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