Research
Drafting images: The making of AI architecture
A sociological perspective on architectural visualization in the age of generative diffusion models
Visions for the future
Investigating transformative urban mobility futures through participatory processes in sustainable urban mobility plans (SUMPs)
Between transformation and non-intervention
Navigating urban futures in the single-family housing landscape
Disrupted mobilities
Dis/Continuities in the (re)production of mobility practices in times of disaster
Re-connecting brick waste
Exploring additive manufacturing for circular reuse
Digital technologies in planning
Investigating the impact of GIS-based Master Plans on decision-making in Indian cities
Mowing the aftermath
Tracing shifts in urban lawn care and the anticipatory logics of environmental management
Neglected walls
Contact zones of architectural matter and spontaneous vegetation
‘Un-building’ architecture?
A multi-sited ethnography of reuse practices and material trajectories
Anastasia Isabella Schmidt
Unsettling futures
Practicing urban planning within regressive future imaginaries
Building values
Rethinking decisions on demolition and reuse by (re)valuing existing buildings
Mass timber metropolis
Navigating uncertainties around wood in construction
Colonial urbanism in transition
Navigating contested ownership for Port Said’s urban future
Retrofitting heritage with HBIM
A framework for informed decision-making in protected buildings
Towards the digilogue city
Investigating multi-modelling approaches within urban digital twins
Relational architecture
Performing architectural futures
Infrastructuring the digital (urban) state
or: Digital state-making on the municipal level
The contentious urban politics of planning for water scarcity
Tracing water governance amidst socio-ecological crises in Berlin, Germany, and Cambridge, UK
Gendering the right to the city
Citizenship, environmental justice, and the role of place-making
Digitalization for sustainability in the German construction industry
Opportunities and barriers to the behaviour of building professionals using ‘digital solutions’ for a future-proof industry
Practicing science, performing urban futures?
Urban digital twins as knowledge-making infrastructures in the 21st-century city
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
The future is already built
Im/possibilities of (material) urban transformation in the face of socio-ecological crises
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)