Elodie Vittu

Since January 2019 Dr. Elodie Vittu is the Manager for the Institute for European Urban Studies (IfEU). In cooperation with the directorate, at the interface between Academic Executive Board and University Administration, she coordinates the activities of the institute. Further, Elodie Vittu is the Academic Counsellor of the Master Programme „European Urban Studies“ and organises the supervision of the "Guided Research Projektes". Her research interests lie in areas such as Right to the City, right to housing, citizen participation in large-scale projects (Grand Pari(s), Les Halles, Potsdamer Platz), Housing politics, gentrification, and urban redevelopment. 

Vita

After studying architecture in Lille and a Master’s degree in urban and regional planning at the University Sorbonne in Paris Nord, Elodie Vittu obtained a double diploma in Urban and Regional Planning at the French Institute of Urban Planning (IFU) at the university Paris-Marne-la-Vallée and the Institute of Urban- and Regional Planning at the TU Berlin.

From 2008 until 2018 she had been academic assistant at the chair of “Spatial Planning and Research” at the Bauhaus University. She then received a PhD in the field of urbanism. Between 2015 and 2017 Elodie held a scholarship of the Graduate Funding of the Free State of Thuringia.

Research | Teaching

During her time as academic assistant, Elodie Vittu supervised multiple urban planning projects in the Bachelor programme “Urbanistik” and offered seminars in the German- and English-speaking Bachelor and Master programmes. Elodie Vittu had been responsible for “internationalization” during the implementation of the 4-year long Bachelor programme “Urbanistik”. Within the framework of the “Studienreformwerkstatt”, she is developing supervision tools with blended learning concepts for an integrated research semester: the  Guided Research Projekt. Moreover, she is moderating student-run projects, funded by Bauhaus.Module.

Elodie Vittu is a member of the research Team „Weimarer Wohnungsforschung". She is a founding member of the idle network “Forum Stadtforschung” and a member of INURA (International Network of Urban Research and Action). Further, she is the initiator of the international (post-)doctoral network of the IfEU.  

List of teaching:

Since 2008 Elodie Vittu has been teaching in various course formats (see course catalogue of the individual modules): introductory seminars on scientific methods, lectures within lecture series, supervision of the Guided Research Project, planning and study projects, often in teams. A selection of the latter can be found here:

Demografischer Wandel und Grundversorgung der Bevölkerung, Planungsprojekt Bachelor Urbanistik, WS2008-2009, mit Prof. Dr. Max Welch Guerra und Dipl.- Ing. Caroline Kauert

Weimar West - ein Soziale-Stadt Gebiet "WS2009) und ImPuls-Region Erfurt-Weimar-Jena (SoSe 2010), mit Dipl.-Ing. Tanja Blankenburg

Innenstadtinitiative GENIAL Zentral, WS2010, mit Dipl.-Ing. Ulla Schauber

Soziale Wohnraumversorgung in den Metropolregionen Hamburg, Frankfurt-Rhein-Main und München, Studienprojekt Master Urbanistik, WS2012-13, mit Prof. Dr. Barbara Schönig

GEMEINSAM Vielfalt Stadt Finden Lassen - Nachhaltige Strategische Quartiersentwicklung in Gelsenkirchen Planungsprojekt Bachelor Urbanistik, zusammen mit Dipl.- Ing. Heike Süß, geb. Hoffmann

Rechte und Verantwortung. Rollenverteilung zwischen Bürgern und Staat bei räumlichen Entwicklungsprozessen, Planungsprojekt Bachelor Urbanistik, WS2014-15, zusammen mit Dipl. Geogr. Britta Trostorff

 Europe, Europe?! – Mesures de mise en œuvre et résistance autour de grands projets transnationaux de l´Union Européenne au niveau européen et local, Planungsprojekt Bachelor Urbanistik, WS2017-18, zusammen mit Mag. Piero Sassi

Publications | Lectures

Vittu, Elodie (2021). Recht auf Stadt. Von einem theoretischen Konzept aus Frankreich zu „Recht auf Stadt“ Bewegungen in Lateinamerika und Europa. IfEU EDITION Band 3. Weimar: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

Hurlin, Lina, Vittu, Elodie, Vogelpohl, Anne, Vollmer, Lisa, & Weikert, Marcel (2021).Organizing, Professionalisierung, Vernetzung: Aktuelle Entwicklungen der wohnungspolitischen Bewegung in Berlin, Hamburg, Jena und Leipzig.In: Soziale Passage, 1-22. DOI: doi.org/10.1007/s12592-021-00392-3

Vogelpohl, Anne, Vollmer, Lisa, Vittu, Elodie, & Brecht, Norma (2017). Die Repolitisierung des Wohnens. Städtische soziale Bewegungen für ein Recht auf Wohnen und auf Stadt in Hamburg, Berlin, Jena und Leipzig. In Barbara Schönig, Justin Kadi, & Sebastian Schipper (Hg.), Wohnraum für alle?! Perspektiven auf Planung, Politik und Architektur (pp. 105-133). Bielefeld: Transcript.

Vittu, Elodie (2016). Dissemination of the Right to the City in Germany. In Charlotte Mathivet (Hg.), Unveiling the Right to the City. Representations, Uses and Instrumentalization of the Right to the City (Vol. 15, pp. 84-91). Paris: Ritimo.

Vittu, Elodie (2015). A Big Gamble for "Greater Paris". In Barbara Schönig (Hg.), Variations of suburbanism. Approaching a global phenomenon (pp. 129-156). Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag.

Vittu, Elodie (2012b). Le « Droit à la Ville » de Hambourg: un réseau qui gagne à être connu. In Charlotte Mathivet (Hg.), Le logement en Europe. Délogeons la crise! In coredem (pp. 95-100). Paris: Passerelle. http://aitec.reseau-ipam.org/spip.php?rubrique258.

Vittu, Elodie (2012a). La réhabilitation en douceur à Berlin, une place pour tous? In Antoine Fleury & Stephane Tonnelat (Hg.), Espaces publics urbains et concertation. Paris: métropolitiques.http://www.metropolitiques.eu/La-rehabilitation-en-douceur-a.html

List of lectures:

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie

International Sociological Association

International Geographical Congress