Tanja Potežica is a researcher with a background in urban studies and architecture. She is currently a researcher in the DFG-project ‘Authoritarian Urbanism in the 21st century’, looking at new forms of authoritarian urbanism beyond mega-projects and major cities. She is also a PhD candidate, exploring the intersection of urban studies and labour geography in the context of post-socialist spaces. Her focus hereby is the function of spaces of production, particularly industrial areas, in authoritarian regimes and the role of labour within it. Her research is located in the Western Balkans, and primarily Serbia.
Research interests
Political economy of space, geographies of labour and labour geographies, post-socialism, urban power relations in neoliberalism, planning systems and history in Europe, peripheralization, visual research methods, maps
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Education
2022— today: Bauhaus-University, Weimar, PhD candidate;
2016— 2019: Bauhaus-University, Weimar; MSc European Urban Studies;
2018: Addis Ababa Univeristy, Addis Ababa; student exchange;
2013—2014: National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore; student exchange;
2011— 2015: Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich; BA in Architecture/Urban Design.
Work experience
2025 — today: Bauhaus-Univeristy, Weimar; DFG-project ‘Authoritarian Urbanism in the 21st Century’; research associate;
2022 — 2025: Bauhaus-Univeristy, Weimar; Chair for Spatial Planning and Spatial Research; research and teaching associate;
2019 — 2021: Van Eestern Museum, Amsterdam, Wonen op Hoogte; researcher
2018 — 2022:City of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Cluster Space and Economy; urban planner and