Dan Handel is an architect and curator working on research-based exhibitions and publications with special attention to underexplored ideas, figures, and practices that shape contemporary built environments. He was the inaugural Young Curator at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal, has developed exhibitions for the Venice Biennale and Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, and was curator of architecture and design at the Israel Museum. Most recently, he curated the exhibition The Design of Carpets that Design Us at the CCA. He is a founding editor of Manifest – A Journal of the Americas and is currently developing a manuscript on the uneasy kinship between forests and spatial design.is an architect and curator whose work focuses on underexplored ideas, figures, and practices that shape contemporary built environments. Over the past fifteen years, he has studied the links between scientists, forest managers, and spatial designers, resulting in various exhibitions and publications. “Designed Forests: A Cultural History” is the newest book by curator and writer Dan Handel.@www.handandel.com#NatureInCities#SustainableUrbanDesign#GreenCitySpaces#EcoUrbanism#DanHandelOnCities#DanHandelOnCities#NatureAndUrbanLife#ModernCityLandscapes#UrbanNatureIntegration #CityDesignForNature#GreenCityMovement