Zita Seichter

Zita Seichter is an urban researcher working at the intersection of social and cultural geography and urban planning. After studying urbanism at the Bauhaus University Weimar and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, she gained practical experience at Urbanizers, an urban planning office in Berlin, before completing her master’s degree in human geography at Humboldt University of Berlin. Her research interests include spatial future imaginaries, regressive territorializations – especially in relation to racism and (post)migration – and the interplay between urban planning and politics. In her PhD dissertation, Zita examines regressive imaginaries of the urban and analyses how urban planning, as a continuously territorializing practice, engages with them. She has been a member of the ‘Urban future-making’ RTG since 2025. Previously, she worked as a lecturer and researcher in the ‘Culture-Digitalization-Metropolis’ programme at HafenCity University Hamburg. Additionaly, she is a member of the DFG research network TERRA-R.