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In the broad socio-political discussion on the topic of education within the last decade, it becomes apparent that space and the urban context are important dimensions of education…
ROOF WATER-FARM demonstrates paths towards innovative city water management and urban food production. Potentials and risks of redesigning across sectors of infrastructure will be explored and communicated. The research association investigates…
Yamil Hasbun Chavarria The present dissertation analyzes the way in which particular constructions of ‘nature’ are assembled from bits and pieces of heterogeneous materials –such as policies, trees,…
Simulizi Mijini / Urban Narratives is an academic, artistic and publishing exchange between Berlin, Germany and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It focuses on urban heritage, as a tangible…
This research project questions how the experience of integrated and participatory neighbourhood upgrading, which begun under the old regime, can be revisited and reconceptualised as a tool to…
Political democratic transformation processes that have been taking place in different Arab countries since 2011 deeply impact on cities and urban transformation in the region. The impact of…
Aiming to enhance these areas and to reach sustainable cities, social, cultural, economic, environmental, and management aspects have to be considered in an interdisciplinary teaching approach. This includes…
The DFG funded research project is an ethnographic study of the activities that are involved in producing spaces of dwelling and ideas of home. Scholarship from the social…
London’s housing landscape has experienced significant changes over the last decades. The growth of the private rented sector, its rising rents and the reducing number of available social…
A Jam Manufactory for Naxií is the built outcome of a DesignBuild project directed by the CoCoon-Studio at the Technische Universitaet Berlin in 2012. Two buildings form the…
The KITCHEN-HUB is a place for refugees and local residents in Berlin Schöneberg, run by Über den Tellerrand e.V. The design reflects our approach: it is a tool…
The design studio “Landfills” focused on the waste infrastructure in the Athens metropolitan area, considering the local, social and cultural particularities of dealing with dirt and refuse. The…
Development and testing of a rapid trans-sectoral and integrated planning methodology for regional resource management and developing supply and disposal infrastructure.
The UAC project demonstrates how agriculture can play a determining role in sustainable, climate-optimised urban development. Agriculture within urban growth centres today is more than an economic or…
This PhD thesis creates a knowledge basis that makes Lefebvre’s spatial concept applicable to the analysis of social problems. The actor-space-relationships are identified as interfaces for the prognosis…