Research

At the interface between niches and regimes
Unpacking discourses, practices, and relations of upscaling processes of nature-based solutions

Fixing change?
An examination of maintenance and repair practices in the context of Hamburg’s piped infrastructure

EUmies Awards: ‘Sustainable’ architecture in Europe
A sociological interpretive approach

Mobility in the making
A comparative examination of negotiation processes in mobility experiments

The green, affordable, reconciliatory city
The socioecological fix of Indigenous real-estate developments in Vancouver

Contesting mobility futures
Future-making, stability, and change around urban mobility

The spatial politics of global interdependencies
Large-scale Chinese ‘green’ investment projects and small-town development in eastern Germany

Greener, denser, and socially liveable?
Towards socio-physical liveability in low-income mass housing in India

Expanding the retrofitting paradigm
Circular strategies for the activation of 1950–1976 housing projects in marginalized territories of the Marche region, Italy

Outdated: Class-based politics in modernist urban planning of the 20th century
The continuity and rupture in public spaces of an Indian planned industrial city

How digital urban twins come into being
An investigation of the contextual implementation of digital urban twin technology

Making space for residential bicycle parking
Processes of transformation in established urban neighbourhoods in Hamburg, Germany

How nothing happens
Non-pioneering cities and the role of nation-states in orchestrating urban climate mitigation

Greening the bunkers
Implementing future visions in places from the past: A sociology of space perspective on two bunker conversion projects in Hamburg

Globalization of urban climate governance and the making of net-zero cities
Narratives, pathways, instruments

Collaborative future-making through game design practices
The potentials of prototyping, testing, and jamming for participatory planning processes

On optimizing the sustainability of textile concrete
Considering different types of design, fabrication methods, and materials

The building stock of the 1950s and 1960s through the ages
Architectural transformation through serial facade renovation and roof extension of multi-family buildings

Sinking cities
Urban political environments in the age of sea level rise (postdoctoral project)

Adaptive architecture
Strategies for the sustainable conversion of specialized structures based on the case of Speicherstadt in Hamburg

Collaboratively greening the city?
The practices of tree-pit gardening in Berlin

Rethinking lightweight
On the role of resource-efficient and circular construction in structural design

Urban greening experiments
Governance tensions, contradictions, and pathways for socio-ecological justice (postdoctoral project)
Dr. Alessandra Manganelli

Urban geographies of artificial intelligence
Re-mapping the city in a machine-readable world (postdoctoral project)

Sacred acts in secular times
On the social performance of eco-imagination (postdoctoral project)