Anastasia Isabella Schmidt

Anastasia Schmidt studied sociology with a focus on space, architecture, and materiality. She completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at TU Berlin while also working as a tutor for the Chair of Sociology of Planning and Architecture. Her master’s degree research, which aimed to advance sociological perspectives on architecture, included spending half of her studies in the US, at Montana State University. There, she engaged in interdisciplinary work between architecture and sociology on construction techniques and the meanings that processes of making have for architecture. Her thesis was a theoretical reflection on a relational view of architectural materiality. In addition to her academic work, and before joining the RTG, she worked for the Tresor Foundation Berlin’s Academy of Subcultural Understanding, an educational programme aimed at establishing subcultural spaces where they are lacking. There, she was involved in organizing and tutoring the first student cohort of the Academy.