Authoritarian urbanism in the 21st century. Progressive urban design and participatory planning in Hungary and Serbia. The research project is funded by the DFG from 2025-2028 and engages with the interrelationships of autocratization and urban development in contemporary societies.
Gewohnter Wandel. The DFG Research Training Group ‘Societal Transformation and Spatial Materialization of Housing’ investigates the constant and multi-layered transformation of housing from an inter- and transdisciplinary perspective.
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.
Identity and Heritage. This DFG-funded research training group seeks to promote the critical study of constructions of identity and heritage based on architectural structures, historical sites, and other, primarily material, cultural legacies.