Research
Track Two: strategies
This track builds on interdisciplinary approaches and investigates how professionals act in the face of heightened uncertainty in order to engender transformative change.
Infrastructures
In strategies of urban future-making, material infrastructures meet new requirements of lowering carbon emissions and organizing maintenance, complemented with digital platforms.

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

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

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

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