Outreach
The outreach section documents selected activities of the researchers, the supervisors and the advisory board of the RTG with particular relevance to our themes and research interests.
Publications
- Edited volume
Conflicts in urban future-making: Governance, institutions, and transformative change
 - Edited volume
The transformation of medium-sized cities: On new cultures of city-making
 - Book chapter
Understanding professional agency in urban future-making: Acting in the face of uncertainty
 - Book chapter
Understanding conflicts in urban future-making: Arenas, negotiation, and affect
 - Book chapter
Networks of architectural production: Behind the façade of Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie
 - Book chapter
Das transformative Potenzial großer Projekte: Ein Blick aus der Organisationsforschung (upcoming)
 - Book chapter
Contested mobilities and the role of conflict in making sustainable cities
 - Book chapter
Spotting tensions in urban greening experiments: Insights from Barcelona
 - Book chapter
Towards the machine-readable city? Autonomous driving and HD mapping as latent conflicts in urban future-making
 - Book chapter
Uneven coastal geographies: Sea level rise and contested urban future-making in Bangkok
 - Book chapter
Mapping conflicts of prioritization: National parliamentary discourses on urban greening and biodiversity implementation in Germany and Italy
 - Book chapter
Mayors’ net-zero pledges at COP26: Building momentum and gaining influence in climate politics
 - Book chapter
Driving change? ‘Doing’ conflict in traffic experiments
 - Book chapter
Mapping destabilization journeys in urban mobility systems: The case of Hamburg
 - Book chapter
Navigating conflictual cooperation: Temporary power coalitions in the planning and approval of large-scale Chinese green technology projects in Eastern Germany
 - Journal paper
Collapse awareness in the face of climate breakdown and urbicide
 - Journal paper
Energy colonialism
 - Journal paper
Can the EU taxonomy for sustainable activities help upscale investments into urban nature-based solutions?
 - Journal paper
Nature for resilience reconfigured: Global-to-local translation of frames in Africa
 - Journal paper
Collaborative governance arrangements: What makes nature-based solutions endure?
 - Journal paper
Uber in exurbia: Peripheral platformization, post-suburbanization and the public-private ridehail partnership in the Toronto city region
 - Journal paper
The future as a cultural commons: Grammars of commonality in crisis-ridden Wilhelmsburg
 - Journal paper
Navigating urban futures: Exploring NbS upscaling discourses, practices, and relations in reimagining human-nature relationships
 - Journal paper
The Vancouver socioecological fix: Indigenous real-estate development as the city’s imagination of sustainability, affordability, and reconciliation
 - Journal paper
Transformative or incumbent futures? How the future of mobility is imagined in sustainability transitions research
 - Journal paper
Short-fiber-reinforced concrete meeting the demands of wrapping textile-reinforced concrete
 - Journal paper
Load-bearing behavior of short-fiber-reinforced textile-reinforced concrete for a wrapping process
 - Journal paper
Entwicklung eines Wickelverfahrens für Bauteile aus kurzfaserbewehrtem Textilbeton
 
Presentations
- Conference paper
Places of proof: Urban testbeds as loci of tech innovation
 - Conference paper
Nothing will have taken place: Negativity, space, and the apocalypse
 - Conference paper
Performing the sacred: A dramaturgical account of eco-catastrophist action
 - Conference paper
Discursive greening: Local political debates in urban greening and biodiversity planning and implementation in German and Italian municipalities
 - Conference paper
Unveiling ambiguity: The role of maintenance and repair in infrastructural transformation processes
 - Conference paper
Mediating matters? On infrastructure’s ambiguous role in the production of the urban metabolism
 - Conference paper
More than traffic: Urban street experiments as arenas of negotiation
 - Conference paper
A framework to assess design elements for social housing: Highlighting the interlinkages in socio-spatial environmental needs of inhabitants in Pune, India
 - Conference paper
Socio-spatiality as a methodological lens: Empirical case study of the contemporary social mass housing in India
 - Conference paper
Efficiency and attitude: On the relationship between lightweight structures and sustainability
 - Conference paper
Reimagining design for a light environmental impact: The Paper Composition Pavilion
 - Invited talk
From harvesting grain to harvesting data: The platformization and assetization of agriculture
 - Invited talk
Leveraging marginality: The creation and valuation of novelty at the periphery
 - Invited talk
Beyond Uber: The platformization and assetization of industrial production
 - Invited talk
Triggering change through the Superilla-Green axis: Urban experimentations, conflicts, and lessons learned
 - Invited talk
Lacanian landscapes: Psychoanalysis, geography, and the environment
 - Invited talk
Undoing colonial legacies by capitalist means? The emergence of Indigenous real-estate development in Vancouver
 - Invited talk
Zukunftsweisende Energieregion oder ewige Energiekolonie? Zur Rolle Ostdeutschlands in der Europäischen Energie- und Mobilitätswende
 - Keynote
Arsonists and artisans: Coping with architectural traditions at the centre and the periphery
 - Public lecture
Governing global China’s green technology frontiers: Insights from Eastern Germany
 - Panel discussion
Maintenance and repair: A multidisciplinary conversation about an emerging field
 - Podcast
From future anticipation to deep-time thinking
 - PhD seminar
Everyday residential architectures and circularity: Potential and limitations of heritage documentation tools
 
Events
- Panel
Building movement, achieving transformation
 - Workshop
Early career research between disciplinary output and interdisciplinary expectations
 - Workshop
Past, present and future visions of mobility futures
 - Workshop
Green hydrogen: Fueling just decarbonization or ‘greening’ extractivism? Introductory conference remarks
 - Workshop
Housing and circularity
 - International conference
Hopeful attachments on a ruined planet