Agenda
Upcoming
09 Dec, 2025, 17:00Auditorium, HCU
Prof. Dr. Matthias Wenzel (Leuphana University Lüneburg)
Urban future-making: Contours of a practice perspective
Public lecture series06 Jan, 2026, 17:00Auditorium, HCU
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alexa Färber (University of Vienna)
Making futures by promises? An urban anthropological perspective on housing as an object of (political) desire
Public lecture series20 Jan, 2026, 17:00Auditorium, HCU
Prof. Dr. Sandra Jasper (Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, FAU)
Speculative ecologies: The future of urban wastelands
Public lecture series
Past
25 Nov, 2025, 17:00Auditorium, HCU
Dr. Federico Cugurullo (Trinity College Dublin)
The posthuman turn of urban governance in the age of artificial intelligence
Public lecture series11 Nov, 2025, 17:00Auditorium, HCU
Prof. Dr. Markus Hesse (University of Luxembourg)
Situating planning in conflict, or ‘planning in politics’
Public lecture series05 May, 2025, 17:30Auditorium, HCU
Prof. Dr. Maarten Hajer (Utrecht University)
Urbanism in a radical age: Using exhibitions as dramaturgies of change
Public lecture series05 May, 2025, 10:00HafenCity University Hamburg
Final conference: Urban future-making: Situating agency within the built environment
Public conference15 Apr, 2025, 13:00HafenCity University Hamburg
Kick-off: Second cohort
Internal RTG event04 Feb, 2025, 17:00Auditorium, HCU
Book presentation: Conflicts in urban future-making: Governance, institutions, and transformative change
Book presentation21 Jan, 2025, 17:00Auditorium, HCU
Prof. Dr. Mike Raco (University College London)
Who is governing London? The London Model and the future of global cities
Public lecture series07 Jan, 2025, 17:00Auditorium, HCU
Prof. Dr. Christine Hentschel (University of Hamburg)
The future as disaster: Apocalyptic, preparatory, and visionary urbanism in the face of planetary insecurity
Public lecture series17 Dec, 2024, 17:00Auditorium, HCU
Prof. Dr. Ignacio Farías (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Zaudern ums Gemeinwohl: Equivocal experiments in cooperative urban development
Public lecture series03 Dec, 2024, 17:00HS 150, HCU
Prof. Dr. Armin Beverungen and M. Sc. Maja-Lee Voigt (Leuphana University Lüneburg)
Automating the logistical city: Mapping Amazon’s urbanism from the cloud to the curb
Public lecture series19 Nov, 2024, 17:00Auditorium, HCU
Prof. Dr. Hanna Göbel (HCU Hamburg)
What if? Pre-enactments as cultural methodologies for future knowledge production
Public lecture series29 Oct, 2024, 17:00Auditorium, HCU
Prof. Dr. Andrew Karvonen (Lund University)
Streets as catalysts of urban transformation
Public lecture series01 Jul, 2024, 17:30Gleishalle Oberhafen
Prof. Fabio Gramazio (Gramazio Kohler Research, ETH Zurich)
Digital materiality
Workshop 4 (July 2024): Methodologies of matter18 Jun, 2024, 17:00Auditorium, HCU
Prof. Neil Thomas (Atelier One)
Two worlds: The world of modern technology and the natural world
Public lecture series11 Jun, 2024, 17:00HS 200, HCU
Prof. Harald Kloft (TU Braunschweig)
The unity of material, process, and form in the digital age
Public lecture series04 Jun, 2024, 17:30Auditorium, HCU
Maddalena Ferretti, PhD (Marche Polytechnic University, UNIVPM)
TRANSSCALAR: Beyond architecture, towards a creative holistic approach for the reactivation of habitats
Public lecture series04 Jun, 2024, 17:00Auditorium, HCU
Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Jörg Schröder (Leibnitz University Hannover)
Circular design: An urban and territorial perspective for systemic and cultural change
Public lecture series15 May, 2024, 17:00HS 150, HCU
Dr. Till Koglin (Lund University), Dr. Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren (Lund University)
On the dark side of progress in future mobility: Urban visions in the shadow of automobilization
Workshop: Past present and future visions of mobility futures07 May, 2024, 17:00Auditorium, HCU
Lukasz Lendzinski (Umschichten)
How can dreams be made tangible?
Public lecture series23 Apr, 2024, 17:00Auditorium, HCU
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kerstin Kuchta (Hamburg University of Technology)
Circular material for circular cities
Public lecture series30 Jan, 2024, 17:00Auditorium, HCU
Dr. Hendrikje Alpermann (Viadrina University)
Challenging objects in urban future-making: Presence, resistance, and decay of buildings on standby
Public lecture series16 Jan, 2024, 17:00Auditorium, HCU
Margarete Haderer, PhD (Vienna University of Technology [TU Wien])
Revisiting the promises of eco-political experimentation: Achievements, appropriations, limits
Public lecture series10 Jan, 2024, 10:00Room 2.104, HCU
Prof. Dr. Ana Paula Koury (São Judas Tadeu University and Mackenzie University in São Paulo)
Urban futures and fields of conflict from the perspective of South American cities
Public lecture series04 Jul, 2023, 10:00Lauenburg
Prof. Dr. Gesa Kapteina (HCU Hamburg)
Scopes of action in the field of structural maintenance
Workshop 2 (July 2023): Topologies of agency04 Jul, 2023, 09:15Lauenburg
Dr. habil. Joachim Thiel (HCU Hamburg)
Future-making through projects?
Workshop 2 (July 2023): Topologies of agency03 Jul, 2023, 11:00Lauenburg
Dr. Louis Volont (HCU Hamburg)
Maker of space, master of time: A tempology of the future-maker
Workshop 2 (July 2023): Topologies of agency03 Jul, 2023, 10:30Lauenburg
Prof. Dr. Franziska Müller (University of Hamburg)
Agency in the Anthropocene
Workshop 2 (July 2023): Topologies of agency20 Jun, 2023, 17:00Auditorium, HCU
Dr. Christine Neubert (University of Hamburg)
Construction sites as urban practice: Negotiating everyday life
Public lecture series06 Jun, 2023, 17:00Auditorium, HCU
Prof. Dr. Tim Moss (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Planning urban infrastructures across Berlin’s turbulent modern history
Public lecture series23 May, 2023, 17:00Auditorium, HCU
Prof. Dr. Vanesa Castán Broto (University of Sheffield)
The promise of mundane innovation
Public lecture series09 May, 2023, 17:00Auditorium, HCU
Prof. Dr. Malene Freudendal-Pedersen (Aalborg University)
Mobilities and urban imagination: Who or what are we planning for?
Public lecture series25 Apr, 2023, 17:00Auditorium, HCU
Prof. Dr. Tatjana Schneider (TU Braunschweig)
Architecture and the rest of it
Public lecture series11 Apr, 2023, 17:00Auditorium, HCU
Prof. Dr. Silviya Svejenova Velikova (Copenhagen Business School)
Enabling sustainable futures: The nexus of inclusion, innovation, and impact
Public lecture series14 Feb, 2023, 15:00Seminar room, HCU
Prof. Dr. Anita Engels (University of Hamburg)
Doing research with nerds, storytellers, and surveyors – Experiences from 15 years of climate research in large clusters
Workshop 1 (Feb 2023): Conceiving cities. Understanding interdisciplinarity.14 Feb, 2023, 14:00Seminar room, HCU
Prof. Dr. Oliver Ibert (IRS Erkner)
Practicing interdisciplinarity: Reflections on the trading zones between spatial research and social sciences
Workshop 1 (Feb 2023): Conceiving cities. Understanding interdisciplinarity.14 Feb, 2023, 10:00Seminar room, HCU
Prof. Dr. Elena Esposito (University of Bielefeld)
Interdisciplinarity, really?
Workshop 1 (Feb 2023): Conceiving cities. Understanding interdisciplinarity.14 Feb, 2023, 09:00Seminar room, HCU
Prof. Dr. Uskali Mäki (University of Helsinki)
Interdisciplinarity – Premises, promises, pluralities, perplexities
Workshop 1 (Feb 2023): Conceiving cities. Understanding interdisciplinarity.13 Feb, 2023, 17:00HS 150, HCU
Prof. Dr. David Stark (Columbia University)
This is not a test! Testing after preparedness
Workshop 1 (Feb 2023): Conceiving cities. Understanding interdisciplinarity.07 Feb, 2023, 17:00Auditorium, HCU
Prof. Dr. Philipp Späth (University of Freiburg)
Guiding visions in transition studies
Public lecture series24 Jan, 2023, 17:00Auditorium, HCU
Prof. Dr. Jens Beckert (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, MPIfG)
Imagined futures and capitalist dynamics
Public lecture series20 Dec, 2022, 17:00Auditorium, HCU
Prof. Dr. Felix Ringel (Durham University)
Future-making in post-industrial cities: Shrinkage, sustainability, and temporal agency
Public lecture series06 Dec, 2022, 17:00Auditorium, HCU
Prof. Dr. Susanne Krasmann (University of Hamburg)
The multiple lives of architecture: On artificial disaster and the vulnerability of collectives
Public lecture series