Research 🧑🏻🔬
HafenCity Universität Hamburg
Doctoral Researcher
2022 - 2025, DFG
︎︎︎ The spatial politics of global interdependencies: Chinese large-scale infrastructure investments and small-town development in East Germany
Technische Universität Berlin
Research Associate & Project Coordinator
2019 - 2022, BMBF
︎︎︎ Urban-Rural Assembly (URA): Strategic tools for integrated territorial planning enhancing urban-rural integration and circular economies in the Huangyan-Taizhou region, China
Technische Universität Berlin
Lecturer & Researcher
2014 - 2019, TU Berlin / DAAD
︎︎︎ Studio Rural+: BA and MA teaching research project in the fields of architecture, urban design, and urban and regional planning
Practice 👷🏿
studioetcetera
Co-founder
2018 - ongoing
Haus Döschnitz e.V.
Co-founder & board member
2020 - ongoing
Education 🧑🎓
Technische Universität Braunschweig
2006 - 2013
Dipl.-Ing. Architecture & Urban Planning
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
2009 - 2010
Architecture & Urban Planning
HafenCity Universität Hamburg
Doctoral Researcher
2022 - 2025, DFG
︎︎︎ The spatial politics of global interdependencies: Chinese large-scale infrastructure investments and small-town development in East Germany
Technische Universität Berlin
Research Associate & Project Coordinator
2019 - 2022, BMBF
︎︎︎ Urban-Rural Assembly (URA): Strategic tools for integrated territorial planning enhancing urban-rural integration and circular economies in the Huangyan-Taizhou region, China
Technische Universität Berlin
Lecturer & Researcher
2014 - 2019, TU Berlin / DAAD
︎︎︎ Studio Rural+: BA and MA teaching research project in the fields of architecture, urban design, and urban and regional planning
Practice 👷🏿
studioetcetera
Co-founder
2018 - ongoing
Haus Döschnitz e.V.
Co-founder & board member
2020 - ongoing
Education 🧑🎓
Technische Universität Braunschweig
2006 - 2013
Dipl.-Ing. Architecture & Urban Planning
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
2009 - 2010
Architecture & Urban Planning
Publications 🧑🏽💻
Book Contribution, 2023
︎︎︎ Lokal verankert, global vernetzt. Die transformative Kraft einer territorialen Stadt-Land-Governance, In: IBA Thüringen (ed) StadtLand Perspektiven. Für eine neue Raumkultur. Weimar: M BOOKS, 155-164. (with Remy Sietchiping)
Book Contribution, 2022
︎︎︎ Planetare Kleinstadt: Perspektiven für eine multiskalare und nicht-stadtzentrierte Kleinstadtforschung, In: Nina Gribat, Baris Ülker, Silke Weidner, Bernhard Weyrauch, Juliane Ribbeck-Lampel (eds) Interdisziplinäre Kleinstadtforschung. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 51-70.
Article, 2021
︎︎︎ Shifting Grounds: Chinese Corporate Investments in Rural Thuringia and the Expanded Reproduction of Capital after Western Hegemony, trans, (#38) Reproduction, Zürich: gta-Verlag, pp. 107-112.
Edited Issue, 2020
︎︎︎ Interfaces, URA Periodical, Issue 01, Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin. (with Xiaoxue Gao, Ava Lynam, Philipp Misselwitz)
Edited Issue, 2019
︎︎︎ Time as infrastructure: For an analysis of contemporary urbanization, City, Vol. 23, 4-5. (with Natalia Besedovsky, Fritz-Julius Grafe, Hanna Hilbrandt)
Book Contribution, 2018
︎︎︎ Zwischen Entfremdung und Resonanz: Anmerkungen zur Grundlage kooperativer Formen rurbaner Landschaftsentwicklung am Beispiel der alpinen Region Vallagarina, In: Sigrun Langner, Maria Frölich-Kulik (eds) Rurbane Landschaften, Perspektiven des Ruralen in einer urbanisierten Welt. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 341–360.
Article, 2017
“后乡村城镇化”与乡村振兴——当代德国乡村规划探索及对中国的启示 Post-Rural Urbanization and Rural Revitalization: Can China Learn from New Planning Approaches in Contemporary Germany?, In: City Planning Review, 11:111-119. (with Huang Huang, Yang Guiqing, Philipp Misselwitz)
Article, 2017
Post-Rural Futures in an Urbanising World? Re-Approaching Decentralised Urbanism in Alpine Regions through the Lens of Community Economies. In: MONU (#26) Decentralised Urbanism, Rotterdam. (with Brave New Alps)
Article, 2015
︎︎︎ ‘Make-Shift-Urbanismus‘ in den Zeiten einer ‚Absoluten Gegenwart‘? Auf den Spuren städtischer Praktiken um das Ostkreuz in Berlin. In: suburban . zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung, 3:111-124. (with Nina Gribat, Mario Schulze)
Article, 2015
‘Make City’ in Times of an ‘Absolute Present’? Exploring alternative urban practices at Ostkreuz, Berlin. In: MONU (#23) Participatory Urbanism, Rotterdam. (with Nina Gribat, Mario Schulze)
Interviews & Project Feature 🦸🏾
Project Feature, 2022
︎︎︎ Schön hier. Architektur auf dem Land. DAM - Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz. (Project HER(R)BERGSKIRCHEN as part of exhibition and book publication)
Project Feature, 2022
︎︎︎ Sommerfrische Haus Döschnitz. In: Kinsky/Kolbmüller/Rose/Rothe (eds) Sommerfrische Schwarzatal. Ein Reiselandbuch. Eigenverlag, 88-95.
Project Feature, 2022
︎︎︎ Vorhang auf für Gäste. HER(R)BERGSKIRCHEN – wo man unter dem Kirchenhimmel schlafen kann. In: GARTEN + LANDSCHAFT 08/2022. (by Magdalena Schmidkunz)
Project Feature, 2021
︎︎︎ Thüringer Church Hostels. In: Mariana Amatullo, Bryan Boyer, Jennifer May, Andrew Shea (eds) (2021) Design for Social Innovation. Case Studies from Around the World. New York: Routledge.
Project Feature, 2021
︎︎︎ Musterhäuser einer anderen Imobilienwirtschaft. In: STADTLAND. IBA Magazin #7. 26-35. (by Florian Heilmeyer)
Project Feature, 2021
︎︎︎ HER(R)BERGSKIRCHEN Thüringer Wald. Vom Pilotprojekt zur aktiven Regionalentwicklung. In: STADTLAND. IBA Magazin #7. 74-77.
Project Feature, 2021
︎︎︎ Gesegnete Ruh. Kristina Pezzei (6. August 2021) Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ).
Project Feature, 2021
︎︎︎ Wo von Himmelsleitern geträumt wird. Eine HER(R)BERGSKIRCHE in Neustadt a.R. In: Jürgen Willinghöfer (ed) Ein neuer Typus Kirche. Hybride öffentliche Räume. Berlin: Jovis, 49-60.
Project Feature, 2019
︎︎︎ Gebaute Praxis in Thüringen. In: Stiftung Baukultur Thüringen (ed) THÜRINGEN BAUKULTUR TOURISMUS. Praxisempfehlungen, Modellsammlung, Report. Studie, 54-55.
Interview, 2019
︎︎︎ In der HER(R)BERGSKIRCHE zu Gast. In: STADTLAND. IBA Magazin #5. 46-49.
Project Feature, 2019
︎︎︎ RE:EDEN. Neue Denk- und Handlungsräume. In: re:form e. V. (ed) (2019) Re:Eden Neue Blicke auf die älteste Reformsiedlung Deutschlands. Berlin: Jovis Verlag. 124-127. (with Nina Pawlicki, Team DIS+KO)
Project Feature, 2019
︎︎︎ Her(r)bergskirchen: Building Reuse Culture. Heritage Resources Reinvigorated. In: Francesca Ferguson, MAKE_SHIFT (ed.) (2019) Make City A Compendium of Urban Alternatives (Stadt anders machen). Berlin: Jovis Verlag, 324-325.
Interview, 2017
︎︎︎ Practices of Commoning. A Conversation with Markus Bader, Rosario Talevi, Merve Bedir, Bianca Elzenbaumer, Fabio Franz, Hannes Langguth. In: Aßmann K. et al. (Eds.) (2017) Explorations in Urban Practice - Urban School Ruhr Series. Barcelona: dpr-barcelona.
Lectures (Selection) 🧛🏻
2022/11
Same Same But Different: Chinese large-scale infrastructure investments and the (re-)making of peripheral centralities in Eastern Germany, Peripheral Centralities: Present and Future, USF Seminar Series, City Institute at York University Toronto (CA).
2022/10
The Spatial Politics of Global Interdependencies: Case Studies from Eastern Germany, HCKF Forschungskolloquium, Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg.
2021/05
Kleinstadtentwicklung im globalen Gefüge chinesischer Direktinvestitionen (FDIs): Das Fallbeispiel Arnstadt in Südthüringen, Klein(e)Stadt ganz groß?, Interdisziplinäres Symposium zur Kleinstadtforschung HCKF, Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg.
2021/05
Aktive Regionalentwicklung im Thüringer Wald. Das Beispiel HER(R)BERGSKIRCHEN, Die Räumlichen Dimensionen der Digitalisierung, ÖREK-Partnerschaft im Rahmend des Österreichischen Raumentwicklungskonzepts, Online Fachveranstaltung.
2020/09
Urban-Rural Assembly, Integrated Urban-Rural Planning and Governance: A Global Perspective, Annual international Urban-Rural Assembly (URA) conference (hybrid), TU Berlin/ ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory Berlin.
2019/09
Everyday Utopias. Kooperative Zukunftsgestaltung im Thüringer Wald, Die Zukunft auf dem Land. Imaginationen und Narrationen futuristischer Entwicklungen, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg & Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Eiermannbau Apolda.
2019/03
Post-Rural Urbanities: A Comparative Study of (Innovative) Socio-Spatial Practices in Urbanised Hinterlands across Germany and China, Planetary Urbanization and Architectural Research, Workshop, Manchester Urban Institute, The University of Manchester (UK).
2018/08 Urban-Rural Assembly. The Interconnected City in Germany and China. Sino-German Workshop on Urbanization and Urban Development. Center for Cultural Studies on Science and Technology in China (CCST), TU Berlin.
2018/02
Urban-Rural Assembly: Kooperative Formen post-ruraler Entwicklung im Kontext globaler Urbanisierungsprozesse, Konstruieren, Analysieren, Gestalten: Ländliche Räume zwischen Theorie, Empirie und Praxis, Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises 'Ländlicher Raum', Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel.
2017/06
Kooperative Formen post-ruraler (Re)Organisation: Zur Zukunft der alpinen Region Vallagarina im Kontext globaler Urbanisierungsprozesse, Rurbane Landschaften – Perspektiven des Ruralen in einer urbanisierten Welt, Symposium, Bauhaus Universität, Weimar.
2015/11
Post-Rural Urbanization in Eastern Germany - The Case Study Thuringia. Sino-Germany Rural Settlements Sustainable Development, Huangyan Symposium, Huangyan, Taizhou City (China).
2015/10
The role of self-organisation within regional development: Cases from post-rural Thuringia, The Horizontal Metropolis: A Radical Project, International PhD Symposia, EPFL – Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne (Switzerland).
2015/08
Post-Ruralism? Towards a new understanding of ‚peripheral‘ urbanisation processes and emerging socio-spatial practices in remote and marginalised regions of Eastern Germany, Winners and losers: Why are the effects of regional policy so different?, International PhD Symposia, Czech Technical University, Prague (Czech Republic).
2015/06
Re-thinking sub-regional identities through self-organisation: Cases from post-rural Thuringia, Polycentric City Regions in Transformation – The Agglomeration Ruhr in international Perspective, International Conference, Panel II: Two Scale Urbanism, Zeche Zollverein, Essen.
City Walks 🧑🏽🌾
2018/04Contemporary Architectural and Urban Development in Berlin-Kreuzberg and the Legacy of 1968, 16th Annual NYLON Conference, jointly organised by NYLON Network members from New York City (NYU), London (LSE & Goldsmith's) and Berlin (Humboldt-Universität), (with Christian Haid). 2016/05 Berlin’s Contemporary Urban Development in the Face of (Post)Democracy: The Case Park am Gleisdreieck, International Conference: Common Room – Architecture, Democracy and Emotions since 1945, organised by Max Planck Institute of Human Development, Berlin.
2015/06
Stadträumliche und Architektonische Praktiken der Absoluten Gegenwart. Eine Spurensuch rund um das Ostkreuz, Absolute Gegenwart, Event Series, Engagierte Wissenschaften e.V. in collaboration with Institut für Zukunft Leipzig, ://about blank, Berlin. (with Nina Gribat and Mario Schulze)
Teaching 🧑🏫
SS 2022
︎︎︎ Re:treat Döschnitz - Kreislaufgerechtes Bauen zwischen Stadt & Land (TU Berlin); Architecture master's course, NBL (TU Berlin) + TEK (TU Berlin) + Haus Döschnitz e.V. + IBA Thüringen GmbH (with Eike Roswag-Klinge, Nina Pawlicki, Matthew Crabbe, Çağlar Onbaşı)
WS 2018/2019
︎︎︎ Wahlräume – Studentischer Ideenwettbewerb (TU Berlin); Architecture, Urban Design, Town and Regional Planning student competition, DE/CO, Habitat Unit & AG Partizipation, TU Berlin (with Jan Kampshoff, Philipp Misselwitz, Franz-Josef Schmitt)
SS 2018→ Re:Form - Eden (TU Berlin); Architecture, Urban Design, Town and Regional Planning master's course, NBL & Habitat Unit, TU Berlin (with Eike Roswag-Klinge, Nina Pawlicki, Matthew Crabbe, Sebastian Latz)
WS 2017/2018 → Diagnose 1968-2018 (TU Berlin); Architecture, Urban Design, Town and Regional Planning master's course, Habitat Unit, TU Berlin (together with Christian Haid)
WS 2016/2017 → Studio Rural+ / Alpine Commons (TU Berlin); Architecture, Urban Design, Town and Regional Planning master's course, Habitat Unit, TU Berlin (together with Brave New Alps)
WS 2015/2016 → Studio Rural+ / Chinese Villages Revisited (TU Berlin / Tongji Shanghai); Architecture, Urban Design, Town and Regional Planning master's course, Habitat Unit, TU Berlin & CAUP, Tongji University Shanghai
SS 2015 → Studio Rural+ / Scenarios for urbanised landscapes beyond the city; Architecture (TU Berlin); Urban Design, Town and Regional Planning master's course, Habitat Unit, TU Berlin
WS 2014/2015 → Studio Rural+ / Re-thinking regional identities in the Free State of Thuringia (TU Berlin); Architecture, Urban Design, Town and Regional Planning master's course, Habitat Unit, TU Berlin
SS 2014 → Studio Rural+ / Off the Grid. An artist refuge in post-rural Thailand (TU Berlin); Architecture, Urban Design, Town and Regional Planning master's course, Habitat Unit, TU Berlin
SS 2013 → Dreams of Beyond: Revisiting the urban periphery of Berlin (TU Berlin); Architecture, Urban Design, Town and Regional Planning master's course, Habitat Unit, TU Berlin
Book Contribution, 2023
︎︎︎ Lokal verankert, global vernetzt. Die transformative Kraft einer territorialen Stadt-Land-Governance, In: IBA Thüringen (ed) StadtLand Perspektiven. Für eine neue Raumkultur. Weimar: M BOOKS, 155-164. (with Remy Sietchiping)
Book Contribution, 2022
︎︎︎ Planetare Kleinstadt: Perspektiven für eine multiskalare und nicht-stadtzentrierte Kleinstadtforschung, In: Nina Gribat, Baris Ülker, Silke Weidner, Bernhard Weyrauch, Juliane Ribbeck-Lampel (eds) Interdisziplinäre Kleinstadtforschung. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 51-70.
Article, 2021
︎︎︎ Shifting Grounds: Chinese Corporate Investments in Rural Thuringia and the Expanded Reproduction of Capital after Western Hegemony, trans, (#38) Reproduction, Zürich: gta-Verlag, pp. 107-112.
Edited Issue, 2020
︎︎︎ Interfaces, URA Periodical, Issue 01, Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin. (with Xiaoxue Gao, Ava Lynam, Philipp Misselwitz)
Edited Issue, 2019
︎︎︎ Time as infrastructure: For an analysis of contemporary urbanization, City, Vol. 23, 4-5. (with Natalia Besedovsky, Fritz-Julius Grafe, Hanna Hilbrandt)
Book Contribution, 2018
︎︎︎ Zwischen Entfremdung und Resonanz: Anmerkungen zur Grundlage kooperativer Formen rurbaner Landschaftsentwicklung am Beispiel der alpinen Region Vallagarina, In: Sigrun Langner, Maria Frölich-Kulik (eds) Rurbane Landschaften, Perspektiven des Ruralen in einer urbanisierten Welt. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 341–360.
Article, 2017
“后乡村城镇化”与乡村振兴——当代德国乡村规划探索及对中国的启示 Post-Rural Urbanization and Rural Revitalization: Can China Learn from New Planning Approaches in Contemporary Germany?, In: City Planning Review, 11:111-119. (with Huang Huang, Yang Guiqing, Philipp Misselwitz)
Article, 2017
Post-Rural Futures in an Urbanising World? Re-Approaching Decentralised Urbanism in Alpine Regions through the Lens of Community Economies. In: MONU (#26) Decentralised Urbanism, Rotterdam. (with Brave New Alps)
Article, 2015
︎︎︎ ‘Make-Shift-Urbanismus‘ in den Zeiten einer ‚Absoluten Gegenwart‘? Auf den Spuren städtischer Praktiken um das Ostkreuz in Berlin. In: suburban . zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung, 3:111-124. (with Nina Gribat, Mario Schulze)
Article, 2015
‘Make City’ in Times of an ‘Absolute Present’? Exploring alternative urban practices at Ostkreuz, Berlin. In: MONU (#23) Participatory Urbanism, Rotterdam. (with Nina Gribat, Mario Schulze)
Interviews & Project Feature 🦸🏾
Project Feature, 2022
︎︎︎ Schön hier. Architektur auf dem Land. DAM - Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz. (Project HER(R)BERGSKIRCHEN as part of exhibition and book publication)
Project Feature, 2022
︎︎︎ Sommerfrische Haus Döschnitz. In: Kinsky/Kolbmüller/Rose/Rothe (eds) Sommerfrische Schwarzatal. Ein Reiselandbuch. Eigenverlag, 88-95.
Project Feature, 2022
︎︎︎ Vorhang auf für Gäste. HER(R)BERGSKIRCHEN – wo man unter dem Kirchenhimmel schlafen kann. In: GARTEN + LANDSCHAFT 08/2022. (by Magdalena Schmidkunz)
Project Feature, 2021
︎︎︎ Thüringer Church Hostels. In: Mariana Amatullo, Bryan Boyer, Jennifer May, Andrew Shea (eds) (2021) Design for Social Innovation. Case Studies from Around the World. New York: Routledge.
Project Feature, 2021
︎︎︎ Musterhäuser einer anderen Imobilienwirtschaft. In: STADTLAND. IBA Magazin #7. 26-35. (by Florian Heilmeyer)
Project Feature, 2021
︎︎︎ HER(R)BERGSKIRCHEN Thüringer Wald. Vom Pilotprojekt zur aktiven Regionalentwicklung. In: STADTLAND. IBA Magazin #7. 74-77.
Project Feature, 2021
︎︎︎ Gesegnete Ruh. Kristina Pezzei (6. August 2021) Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ).
Project Feature, 2021
︎︎︎ Wo von Himmelsleitern geträumt wird. Eine HER(R)BERGSKIRCHE in Neustadt a.R. In: Jürgen Willinghöfer (ed) Ein neuer Typus Kirche. Hybride öffentliche Räume. Berlin: Jovis, 49-60.
Project Feature, 2019
︎︎︎ Gebaute Praxis in Thüringen. In: Stiftung Baukultur Thüringen (ed) THÜRINGEN BAUKULTUR TOURISMUS. Praxisempfehlungen, Modellsammlung, Report. Studie, 54-55.
Interview, 2019
︎︎︎ In der HER(R)BERGSKIRCHE zu Gast. In: STADTLAND. IBA Magazin #5. 46-49.
Project Feature, 2019
︎︎︎ RE:EDEN. Neue Denk- und Handlungsräume. In: re:form e. V. (ed) (2019) Re:Eden Neue Blicke auf die älteste Reformsiedlung Deutschlands. Berlin: Jovis Verlag. 124-127. (with Nina Pawlicki, Team DIS+KO)
Project Feature, 2019
︎︎︎ Her(r)bergskirchen: Building Reuse Culture. Heritage Resources Reinvigorated. In: Francesca Ferguson, MAKE_SHIFT (ed.) (2019) Make City A Compendium of Urban Alternatives (Stadt anders machen). Berlin: Jovis Verlag, 324-325.
Interview, 2017
︎︎︎ Practices of Commoning. A Conversation with Markus Bader, Rosario Talevi, Merve Bedir, Bianca Elzenbaumer, Fabio Franz, Hannes Langguth. In: Aßmann K. et al. (Eds.) (2017) Explorations in Urban Practice - Urban School Ruhr Series. Barcelona: dpr-barcelona.
Lectures (Selection) 🧛🏻
2022/11
Same Same But Different: Chinese large-scale infrastructure investments and the (re-)making of peripheral centralities in Eastern Germany, Peripheral Centralities: Present and Future, USF Seminar Series, City Institute at York University Toronto (CA).
2022/10
The Spatial Politics of Global Interdependencies: Case Studies from Eastern Germany, HCKF Forschungskolloquium, Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg.
2021/05
Kleinstadtentwicklung im globalen Gefüge chinesischer Direktinvestitionen (FDIs): Das Fallbeispiel Arnstadt in Südthüringen, Klein(e)Stadt ganz groß?, Interdisziplinäres Symposium zur Kleinstadtforschung HCKF, Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg.
2021/05
Aktive Regionalentwicklung im Thüringer Wald. Das Beispiel HER(R)BERGSKIRCHEN, Die Räumlichen Dimensionen der Digitalisierung, ÖREK-Partnerschaft im Rahmend des Österreichischen Raumentwicklungskonzepts, Online Fachveranstaltung.
2020/09
Urban-Rural Assembly, Integrated Urban-Rural Planning and Governance: A Global Perspective, Annual international Urban-Rural Assembly (URA) conference (hybrid), TU Berlin/ ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory Berlin.
2019/09
Everyday Utopias. Kooperative Zukunftsgestaltung im Thüringer Wald, Die Zukunft auf dem Land. Imaginationen und Narrationen futuristischer Entwicklungen, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg & Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Eiermannbau Apolda.
2019/03
Post-Rural Urbanities: A Comparative Study of (Innovative) Socio-Spatial Practices in Urbanised Hinterlands across Germany and China, Planetary Urbanization and Architectural Research, Workshop, Manchester Urban Institute, The University of Manchester (UK).
2018/08 Urban-Rural Assembly. The Interconnected City in Germany and China. Sino-German Workshop on Urbanization and Urban Development. Center for Cultural Studies on Science and Technology in China (CCST), TU Berlin.
2018/02
Urban-Rural Assembly: Kooperative Formen post-ruraler Entwicklung im Kontext globaler Urbanisierungsprozesse, Konstruieren, Analysieren, Gestalten: Ländliche Räume zwischen Theorie, Empirie und Praxis, Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises 'Ländlicher Raum', Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel.
2017/06
Kooperative Formen post-ruraler (Re)Organisation: Zur Zukunft der alpinen Region Vallagarina im Kontext globaler Urbanisierungsprozesse, Rurbane Landschaften – Perspektiven des Ruralen in einer urbanisierten Welt, Symposium, Bauhaus Universität, Weimar.
2015/11
Post-Rural Urbanization in Eastern Germany - The Case Study Thuringia. Sino-Germany Rural Settlements Sustainable Development, Huangyan Symposium, Huangyan, Taizhou City (China).
2015/10
The role of self-organisation within regional development: Cases from post-rural Thuringia, The Horizontal Metropolis: A Radical Project, International PhD Symposia, EPFL – Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne (Switzerland).
2015/08
Post-Ruralism? Towards a new understanding of ‚peripheral‘ urbanisation processes and emerging socio-spatial practices in remote and marginalised regions of Eastern Germany, Winners and losers: Why are the effects of regional policy so different?, International PhD Symposia, Czech Technical University, Prague (Czech Republic).
2015/06
Re-thinking sub-regional identities through self-organisation: Cases from post-rural Thuringia, Polycentric City Regions in Transformation – The Agglomeration Ruhr in international Perspective, International Conference, Panel II: Two Scale Urbanism, Zeche Zollverein, Essen.
City Walks 🧑🏽🌾
2018/04Contemporary Architectural and Urban Development in Berlin-Kreuzberg and the Legacy of 1968, 16th Annual NYLON Conference, jointly organised by NYLON Network members from New York City (NYU), London (LSE & Goldsmith's) and Berlin (Humboldt-Universität), (with Christian Haid). 2016/05 Berlin’s Contemporary Urban Development in the Face of (Post)Democracy: The Case Park am Gleisdreieck, International Conference: Common Room – Architecture, Democracy and Emotions since 1945, organised by Max Planck Institute of Human Development, Berlin.
2015/06
Stadträumliche und Architektonische Praktiken der Absoluten Gegenwart. Eine Spurensuch rund um das Ostkreuz, Absolute Gegenwart, Event Series, Engagierte Wissenschaften e.V. in collaboration with Institut für Zukunft Leipzig, ://about blank, Berlin. (with Nina Gribat and Mario Schulze)
Teaching 🧑🏫
SS 2022
︎︎︎ Re:treat Döschnitz - Kreislaufgerechtes Bauen zwischen Stadt & Land (TU Berlin); Architecture master's course, NBL (TU Berlin) + TEK (TU Berlin) + Haus Döschnitz e.V. + IBA Thüringen GmbH (with Eike Roswag-Klinge, Nina Pawlicki, Matthew Crabbe, Çağlar Onbaşı)
WS 2018/2019
︎︎︎ Wahlräume – Studentischer Ideenwettbewerb (TU Berlin); Architecture, Urban Design, Town and Regional Planning student competition, DE/CO, Habitat Unit & AG Partizipation, TU Berlin (with Jan Kampshoff, Philipp Misselwitz, Franz-Josef Schmitt)
SS 2018→ Re:Form - Eden (TU Berlin); Architecture, Urban Design, Town and Regional Planning master's course, NBL & Habitat Unit, TU Berlin (with Eike Roswag-Klinge, Nina Pawlicki, Matthew Crabbe, Sebastian Latz)
WS 2017/2018 → Diagnose 1968-2018 (TU Berlin); Architecture, Urban Design, Town and Regional Planning master's course, Habitat Unit, TU Berlin (together with Christian Haid)
WS 2016/2017 → Studio Rural+ / Alpine Commons (TU Berlin); Architecture, Urban Design, Town and Regional Planning master's course, Habitat Unit, TU Berlin (together with Brave New Alps)
WS 2015/2016 → Studio Rural+ / Chinese Villages Revisited (TU Berlin / Tongji Shanghai); Architecture, Urban Design, Town and Regional Planning master's course, Habitat Unit, TU Berlin & CAUP, Tongji University Shanghai
SS 2015 → Studio Rural+ / Scenarios for urbanised landscapes beyond the city; Architecture (TU Berlin); Urban Design, Town and Regional Planning master's course, Habitat Unit, TU Berlin
WS 2014/2015 → Studio Rural+ / Re-thinking regional identities in the Free State of Thuringia (TU Berlin); Architecture, Urban Design, Town and Regional Planning master's course, Habitat Unit, TU Berlin
SS 2014 → Studio Rural+ / Off the Grid. An artist refuge in post-rural Thailand (TU Berlin); Architecture, Urban Design, Town and Regional Planning master's course, Habitat Unit, TU Berlin
SS 2013 → Dreams of Beyond: Revisiting the urban periphery of Berlin (TU Berlin); Architecture, Urban Design, Town and Regional Planning master's course, Habitat Unit, TU Berlin