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

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

The future is already built
Im/possibilities of (material) urban transformation in the face of socio-ecological crises (postdoctoral project)