Clemens Finkelstein is a doctoral candidate at Princeton University and a Research Associate at the Panel on Planetary Thinking (JLU Giessen). His research engages the built environment at the junction of Art and Architectural History with the History of Science and Technology.

He is a Fulbright Scholar, previously at Harvard University (2015-2017),

Planetary Scholar at the Panel on Planetary Thinking of the Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany (2022),

Junior Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies »Imaginaria of Force« at the Universität Hamburg, Germany (2022-2023),

Berlin Program Fellow for Advanced German and European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (2023).

PIIRS Fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (2024).

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calls | forthcoming | recent [March 27, 2024]

  • workshop — “Planet B: Planetarities” >> Survival in the 21st Century at Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany [May 18 - November 5, 2024]

  • interview series - “Institutional Design Elements for Planetary Democracy” (with Frederic Hanusch) >> Survival in the 21st Century at Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany [May 18 - November 5, 2024]

  • book chapter — “The Vibration Sense: Pallaesthesia, Sensory Substitution Design, and the Reformation of a Sixth Sense” >> The Routledge History of the Senses, edited by Andrew Kettler and William Tullett [Routledge, 2024]

  • book chapter — “Planetary Disequilibrium (Redux)” >> Sick Architecture, edited by Beatriz Colomina, Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch [MIT Press, 2024]

  • book chapter — “Colonial Waves from Apia to Yap: Technoscientific Network Architectures of German Expansionism in Oceania” >> Para-colonial - Colonial - Post-colonial. Influences and Transactions in the Architecture of Oceania (1840-1990), edited by Michael Falser [Leuven University Press, 2024]

  • book chapter — “Vibration als Phänomenotechnik in den Umweltkonzeptionen der Moderne” [Vibration as Phenomenotechnique in the Environmental Conceptions of Modernism] >> Wahrnehmungskräfte – Kräfte wahrnehmen, edited by Frank Fehrenbach, Laura Isengard, Gerd Micheluzzi, Cornelia Zumbusch [De Gruyter, 2024]

  • book - Planetary Forest [DISTANZ, 2024]

  • exhibition review — “Critical Timing, Discomfort, and the Architecture of Change” >> Review of: "It's About Time, The Architecture of Change" 10th Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, the Ferro, Rotterdam, September 22 – November 13, 2022 >> Architectural Histories (EAHN)

  • conference panel + presentation - “Map, Membrane, Mirror, Model: How Environmental Sense-abilities Shaped Modern Germany” >> Mimi Cheng (Freie Universität Berlin), Clemens Finkelstein (Princeton University / Freie Universität Berlin), Katerina Korola (Harvard University), William Stewart (Harvard University) / commentary: Christina Gerhardt (University of Hawai’i) / moderation: Joseph Henry (CUNY Graduate Center / The Metropolitan Museum of Art) >> GSA German Studies Association, 47th Annual Conference [Montréal, Canada, October 5-8, 2023]

  • conference presentation — “Seismic Architectures and German World-Building in Samoa” >> “Colonial Surveys” session, chaired by Samia Henni and Dalal Musaed Alsayer, SAH Society of Architectural Historians, 76th Annual Conference [Montréal, Canada / virtually, September 20-22, 2023]

  • book review - "Ancillary Accumulation" [Review of Accumulation: The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change edited by Nick Axel, Daniel A. Barber, Nikolaus Hirsch, Anton Vidokle] >> Architectural Theory Review

  • masterclass — NICA Masterclass “Architectures of Vibration” >> Netherlands Institute of Cultural Analysis [University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 17, 2023]

  • interview — Clemens Finkelstein w/ Madeleine Morley, “The Unheard Symphony of the Planet” >> The New York Times [January 3, 2023]