Vanessa LEHMANN

Vanessa LEHMANN is a researcher, editor and educator in the liberal arts and social sciences/humanities working on Egypt. For her PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London, she investigates urban and ecological changes in contemporary Egypt from the point of view of the desert looking at land reclamation schemes and new town developments in the desert, mining and resource extraction, the production of energy and goods as well as (political, economic and legal) infrastructures of the local desert economy, such as Special Economic Zones. She is coordinator of the space lab since 2020.