Curriculum Vitae - alexandra regan toland

Curriculum Vitae
Alexandra Regan Toland
Family Status
Married with one child, Tilia Grace, born July 6, 2011
Education
* September 2009 to present: PhD research fellow DFG Graduiertenkolleg 780/3 Perspectives on Urban Ecology
* 2009 Technical University of Berlin, Dipl. Ing. Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning
* 2001 Dutch Art Institute of the Netherlands, Master of Fine Arts
* 1998 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Bachelor of Arts
* 1996 – 1997 foreign exchange, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn
* 1993 Boston Latin School
Associations
* DBG German Soil Science Society, since 2011 Deputy Chair of Commission on Soils in Society and Education
* IUSS International Union of Soil Scientists, Commission 4.4 Soil Education and Public Awareness; Commission 4.5
History, Philosophy and Sociology of Soil Science
* GRAKO 780/3 DFG (German Research Foundation) Graduate Programme “Perspectives on Urban Ecology III”
* Einstein Foundation Network “Berlin der Begegnung” class of 2012
* DGGL, German Society for Garden Culture and Landscape
* IECA, International Environmental Communication Association
* NGBK, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst
* FBG Senftenberg Chorin / Joint Forest Management Association (Forstbetriebsgemeinschaft)
* Eco Arts Collective
Publications
Toland, A. & Wessolek, G. (2012): Boden als kultureller Gegenstand – Das Pedotopia Projekt. In: Kucharzyk & Makki
(eds.) Berliner Geographische Arbeiten 118; Die Wahrnehmung der Böden in unserer Gesellschaft. Humboldt Universität
zu Berlin, p. 107-117.
Toland, A. & Wessolek, G. (2011): Beneath the Pavement – The Vadose Zone. In: Franceschini & Milicevic (Hrsg.)
Beneath the Pavement – A Garden. Loughborough University (UK), ISBN 978-1-907382-34-5, p. 80-105.
Wessolek, G., Kluge, B., Toland, A., Nehls, T., Klingelmann, E., Rim, Y.N., Mekiffer, B. and S. Trinks (2011): Urban Soils
in the Vadose Zone. In: Enlicher et al (Hrsg.) Progress in Urban Ecology. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London and New York:
Springer Science + Business Media B.V.
Toland, A. & Wessolek, G. (2010): Soil Art – Bridging the Communication Gap. In: Makki & Frielinghaus (eds.) Berliner
Geographische Arbeiten 117; Boden des Jahres 2010 – Stadtböden. Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, p. 126-134.
TOLAND, A. (2009). The Beauty of Dirt – Aesthetic Arguments and Artistic Practice as Alternative Approaches to Soil
Communication, Education and Protection. Diplomarbeit im Studiengang Landscaftsplanung an der TU-Berlin.
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Toland, A. & Wessolek, G. (2010): Merging Horizons – Soil Science and Soil Art. In: Feller and Landa (Hrsg.) Soil and
Culture. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London and New York: Springer Science + Business Media B.V., p. 45-66.
Toland, A. & Wessolek, G. (2010): Core Samples of the Sublime – On the Aesthetics of Dirt. In: Feller and Landa (Hrsg.)
Soil and Culture. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London and New York: Springer Science + Business Media B.V., p. 239-260.
TOLAND, A. (2007). Art, Physiology, and the Soil-Body Interface. In: Landscape & Arts Network Journal No. 40.
Oral and Poster Presentations
November 2012: Raising Soil Awareness – A Menu of Artistic Approaches. Oral Presentation, First Global Soil Week
Conference, Berlin
May 2012: Kunst und Boden – von Aktivismus zu Umweltbildung. Oral Presentation, “Neue Wege zum Bodenschutz”
Expert Workshop, NNA Alfred Toepfer Akademie für Naturschutz, Schneverdingen
April 2012: The Pedotopia Project: A Transdisciplinary Experiment in Soil Education. Poster Presentation, European
Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna
September 2011: Akte Erde: Archivböden jenseits des Bodenschutzes: Oral Presentation, German Soil Society
Conference (Deutsche Bodenkundliche Gesellschaft „Böden verstehen - Böden nutzen - Böden fit machen”), Berlin
September 2011: Pedotopia: Overview of an interdisciplinary Seminar on Soil at the University of Arts Berlin (UDK). Oral
Presentation, German Soil Society Conference (Deutsche Bodenkundliche Gesellschaft „Böden verstehen - Böden
nutzen - Böden fit machen“), Berlin
December 2010: The Beauty of Dirt. Poster Presentation, Weltbodentag, Berlin
October 2010: Creative Conservation – Artistic Practice as an Instrument of Soil Protection. Poster Presentation, 5th
International Urban Ecology Conference, “Cracks in the Concrete Jungle,” Berlin
August 2010: Soil Art – Bridging the Communication Gap. Oral Presentation, 19th World Congress of Soil Science,
Brisbane
July 2010: Reclaiming Urban Nature – Artistic Strategies for Environmental Communication and Conservation in Urban
and Industrial Landscapes. Oral Presentation, 5th International Conference on the Arts in Society, Sydney
May 2010: Sculpting Justice out of Sand: The Role of Art in a New Paradigm of Soil Protection. Oral Presentation,
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Aesthetics/Ethics of Environmental Change, Hiddensee, Germany
Teaching
Winter Semester 2012 – 2013: Part time lecturer for the project seminar series “Wissenschaft Trägt Verantwortung” at the
Leuphana Universität, Lüneburg
Winter Semester 2010 – 2011 through Summer Semester 2011: Part time lecturer for the project “Pedotopia –
Resourcing Urban Soils” at the Institute for Art in Context, Universität der Künste, Berlin
October 2006 through present: Part time lecturer in the lecture series “Ecology and Society” (Ökologie und Gesellschaft),
Departments of Soil Science and Soil Protection, TU-Berlin
November 2006 through October 2007: Student Assistant in the Department of Environmental Assessment and Planning,
TU-Berlin. Responsible for coordinating and translating documents for the 2nd Scientific Conference on the Use of
Offshore Wind Energy, the EU Policy Workshop on Offshore Wind Power Deployment, and the EU-weiter
Erfahrungsaustausch zur FFH-Verträglichkeitsprüfung im Sinne des Art. 6 (3) und (4) FFH-Richtlinie.
April 2005 – October 2005: Student Assistant (Tutor) in the Department of Soil Protection, TU-Berlin. Responsible for field
exercises, scripts, translation of scientific texts, poster designs, etc.
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Art Projects, Collaborations, and Workshops
February 2013: Participating artist in Composting the City / Composting the Net. Collaborative composting project and
performance with Shu Lea Cheang et al. for the Transmediale Festival at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
July 2012: Edible Geographies – Mapping the Foodscape. Collaborative map and workshop with Nicola Twilley for the
Guggenheim Labs Summer Program 2012 in Pfefferberg, Berlin
February 2011: Smart Art – Creative and Sustainable Art in Public Urban Space. Workshop at the Cognitive Cities
Conference in collaboration with Jasmin Honold, Berlin
November 2010: Performative Conservation. Impulse workshop at the 36th Fachkongress der Initiative Psychologie im
Umweltschutz (IPU), Schalkau, Thüringer Wald
September 2010: Wishgarden – Flooded Harvest. Participatory research workshop and public performance, in
collaboration with Ana Malalan for MOTA Museum of Transitory Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
September 2010: Spatial analysis of WWII rubble deposition in Berlin, under consideration of sulfate leaching,
recreational quality and collective memory. Research installation with Prof. Dr. Gerd Wessolek at the Pro Helvetia Swiss
Arts Council’s Science Meets Art Workshop in the Altes Museum Neukölln, Berlin
August 2010: Wunschgarten – Wild Urban Offshoots. Creative workshop, walking tour and research installation in
collaboration with Myriel Milicevic as part of the Artists in Dialog Series at the Art Laboratory, Berlin
June 2010: Microturf – an exploration of urban wilderness. Urban nature field exercise and book sprint with Myriel
Milicevic, Jon Cohrs and Morgan Levy in Berlin
August 2009: Personal Distribution Mechanisms. Walking tour and interactive map of Berlin Waterways focusing on
distribution mechanisms of plants and people along the River Panke at the Art Laboratory, Berlin
March 2008 through 2009: Digital Botany. Photographic contract work for the Software Company Lenné3D GmbH.
Projects included identifying and photographing 300 plant and tree species growing in the Berlin/Brandenburg area for an
E-Learning tool for the TU-Berlin and a 3D tree visualization and modulation project.
June - November 2006 – 2008: Gallery of Weeds (Galerie der Wildkräuter), Nature trail and movable signage about the
spontaneous vegetation growing on the former inner-city train depot Gleisdreieck, with support from the Stiftung
Naturschutz Berlin, the grassroots citizen initiative “Bürgerinitiativ Gleisdreieck” and the TU-Berlin
September 2006: Land Schaf(f)t Kunst, Exhibition of Berliner artists in Neuwerder, Brandenburg; curated by Ulrike
Hogrebe and Art-Berlin
July 2006: Banality of Green (Banalität des Grüns), Installation of botanical signage as part of exhibition series on art and
natural science in the Galerie 35, Berlin
May 2006: Soil Art in Urban Brownfields (Bodenkunst auf Brachflächen), Curation of Student Exhibition and project
presentation at the “Lange Nacht der Wissenschaft”, TU-Berlin
2005 - present: Soil Arts (Kunst und Boden), Curation of Soil Art exhibition in the Soil Science Department of the TUBerlin, in collaboration with Gerd Wessolek
July 2004: Synthesis, Exhibition of botanical sculptures for group exhibition at the Takt Kunstprojektraum, Berlin
2002 – 2003: Blick Box, Curation of storefront exhibition space project with Melissa Liang, Jewel-Box Projects, Berlin
September 2002: Fertile Ground, Master Degree Exhibition of botanical sculptures and photographs in the Botanical
Gardens Göttingen, Germany
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Residencies and Grants
September 2009 – March 2013: DFG Graduate Research Fellowship. 780/3 Perspectives on Urban Ecology III Optimizing urban nature development
September 2010: MOTA Museum of Transitory Art. Wish Garden – Flooded Harvest, Ljubljana, Slovenia
September 2006 – December 2009: Wriezener Bahnhof Freiraumlabor (Wriezener Park Open Space Lab). Federal grant
(ExWoSt) to develop a prototype for a solar-generated, wifi area, website and documentary as part of a community park
project in Berlin-Fiedrichshain; in cooperation with Ulf Kypke-Burchardi, freifunk.net and tx architects, Berlin, Germany
February - March 2008: TARP - Taliesin Artist Residency Program. Residency scholarship at the Frank Lloyd Wright
School of Architecture - Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
November 2005: Break Festival “New Species”. Installation of botanical sculptures at the Botanical Garden of Ljubljana,
Break Symposium of Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
April - May 2004: Maitres des Lieux Artist Residency Program. Residency program, workshop and participatory
installation of mosaic word gardens as “a living letter to the city” at the arts symposium Forum des Arts in St. Lo, France
Contact
Alexandra Regan Toland
Berlin University of Technology
Faculty VI Dept. of Soil Protection
Ernst Reuter Platz 1, 10587 Berlin, Germany
Email: a.r.toland@mailbox.tu-berlin.de / a.r.toland@googlemail.com
Skype/Twitter: artoland
Facebook: Alex Toland
Tel.: +49 (0)30 314 73528
Mobile: +49 (0)163 2311353
Work: +49 (0)30 31473528
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