Iva Rešetar
Iva Rešetar is an architect and interdisciplinary researcher in the field of environmental design at the Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She studied architecture at the University of Belgrade and the Städelschule in Frankfurt and received her doctorate from the Berlin University of the Arts. Her dissertation critically examines the relationship between architecture and environmental technologies, searching out historical and experimental knowledge of thermodynamic processes of heat and phase change in architecture – how they are sensed, mediated and acted upon – in the context of the current climate crisis. She is particularly interested in fluid and marginalized materialities, methods and aesthetic practices of energy and climate adaptation, and their implications for the regeneration and repair of living and built environments. Iva has been a practising architect in Belgrade and Germany, and has taught and carried out research among others at Akademie Schloss Solitude, ArcInTexETN, Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee, and CCA Montreal.
Recent publications include Breath: Morphological, Ecological and Social Dimensions (De Gruyter, 2022), co-edited with Linn Burchert, bringing together interdisciplinary perspectives on respiration and the medium of air in times of climate change, and Thermodynamic Structures: Modulating Heat with Phase Change Materials in Architecture (forthcoming, UdK Verlag, 2025).
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