2017– 2021: Project Manager at REM Consult Lang+Partner Stadtplaner und Historiker
Education
2019– present: PhD Candidate of Modern History, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University Prague
2014–2017: M.A.in Balkan, Eurasian and Central European Studies, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University Prague
2010–2014: B.Sc. in Urban Planning, HafenCity University Hamburg
Grants
2021– present: GAUK: “East German Architects in the Global South: the GDR, UN Architecture Projects, and Global Socialism in the Late Cold War”
Conferences
Doors of Learning: Microcosms of a Future South Africa, Bauhaus Dessau – Exhibition opening discussion at: Camps for Liberation/Education as Resistance: the construction of an anti-apartheid exile community in Tanzania, Bauhaus Dessau, 04.08.2022
Self-help Architecture in the Global Cold War: The Case of Dakawa (Tanzania), 1982-1992, in: Between Trade and Aid: Theories, Practices, and Results of Attempts of Exporting State-Socialist Development Models for the Third World, Conference, Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, 29.06.-01.07.2022
“The local people do not favour residing in apartments”: East Germany’s HABITAT seminars on housing and the Global South, in: On Borders and Boundaries, Conference, Chair for East and Southeast European History at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, 28.-29.04.2022.
How East Germany’s Bauakademie availed itself of UN HABITAT as a leverage for its economic and anti-imperial ambitions in the Global South , in: Cold War (A)Symmetries: Conflict, Cooperation and Trade, International Online Conference, University Valahia of Târgoviște, 28.-29.10.2021.
GDR architects and the UN in Tanzania, in: Viva Africa 2021: Africa and (the Other) Europe: Imageries – Discourses – Exchanges, International Conference on African Studies, Prague, 15.-17.9.2021.
Study Stays and Fellowships
2022: Utrecht University
2022: Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
2022: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Publications
Marcks, J., (2022). “The Local People Do not Favour Residing in Apartments”: Bauakademie’s UN HABITAT Seminars on Housing for the Global South, 1987–1989. Střed | Centre, 2022(2),91-111.
Marcks, J. (2020). Book Review: ŁUKASZ STANEK, Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War. Střed | Centre, 2020(2), 170-175.
Marcks, J., Knieling, J., & Vladova, G. (2017). The North East Adriatic Region: Territorial Cooperation and the Role of Planning Systems and Cultures. European Spatial Research and Policy, 23(2), 5-25. https://doi.org/10.1515/esrp-2016-0008
