Autoritäre Stadtentwicklung im 21. Jahrhundert. Progressiver Städtebau und partizipative Planung in Ungarn und Serbien. Das von 2025-2028 von der DFG geförderte Forschungsprojekt befasst sich mit dem Zusammenwirken von Autokratisierung und Stadtentwicklung in heutigen Gesellschaften.
Gewohnter Wandel. Das DFG-geförderte Graduiertenkolleg »Gewohnter Wandel. Gesellschaftliche Transformation und räumliche Materialisierung des Wohnens« erforscht aus inter- und transdisziplinärer Perspektive den stetigen und vielschichten Wandel des Wohnens.
Sheltering (with) care. Supported by funds from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Dr. Liubov Chernysheva will carry out a project that looks at the politics of projecting, constructing, and maintaining emergency shelters for people affected by natural disasters in Central Asia.
Tales of Postsocialist and Postcolonial Transformation. Perspectives from Literary and Urban Studies. This interdisciplinary teaching project was carried out in collaboration with Technical University Chemnitz and engaged with urban transformation processes in postcolonial and postsocialist cities.
Authoritarian Urbanism: Contemporary Manifestations, Global Entanglements and Contestation. The conference aimed to advance our understanding of how urbanism is linked to, and instrumental for rising processes of authoritarianism in contemporary societies around the globe. The event was supported by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung.
Housing Renovation, Socialist Heritage and State-Society-Relations. This international workshop engaged with actors, practices and programs of housing renovation and maintenance and the underlying reconfigurations of state-society-relations in the post-socialist context. The workshop was supported by the Ernst-Abbe-Stiftung.
Housing: An Archive engages with the potentials of artistic and multimodal methods to approach housing objects as archives. Material and social histories of selected objects were elaborated by students of M.sc. European Urban Studies during the summer semester of 2023. The project was funded by the Learning with Objects project of Bauhaus Universität Weimar.
Identität und Erbe. Das DFG-geförderte Graduiertenkolleg leitet zur kritischen Erforschung von Identitäts- und Erbe-Konstruktionen an, die auf Bauwerken, historischen Orten und anderen, hauptsächlich dinglichen, kulturellen Überlieferungen gründen.