Prof. Dr. Vanessa Miriam Carlow

_2005-2012

PhD: ”LIMITS. Space as a resource“, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Copenhagen, Centre for Strategic Planning_{, Supervisor: Prof. Jens Kvorning}

_2003-2004

MA Urban Management (Management of the European Metropolitan Region): ”The Future of Ports and Port Cities in the Baltic Sea Region“_{, Erasmus University Rotterdam, University Copenhagen, Ca Foscari Venice, Antwerpen University, Autonomous University Barcelona, Supervisor MA thesis: Prof. Dr. Christian Wichmann Matthiessen, Copenhagen University}

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Diploma (Arch) TU Berlin: “London_Paris_Berlin: metropolitan.“ _{Supervisors: Prof. Kees Christiaanse and Prof. Nathalie de Vries (excellent, among the 30 percent best graduates of the year)}

_1995-2002 

Studies of architecture and urban design at TU Berlin and TU Delft

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 Abitur, Humboldt-Gymnasium Potsdam _{(very good, valedictorian)}

2018 Appointment to TU Munich, Chair for Urban Design and Regional Planning, offer declined.

2017 Visiting Professor, Cornell University, Dept. Architecture Art Planning AAP, Ithaca, USA.

since 2015 Co-speaker of "Future City" research cluster of TU Braunschweig.

2013 Visiting Professor, Stuckeman School of Architecture, Pennsylvania State University, USA.

since 2012 Full Professor, (W3) Head, Institute for Sustainable Urbanism (ISU), TU Braunschweig.

2011-2012 Guest Professor, "Fundamentals of Architectural Design", Riseba Riga, LV.

2009-2011 Assistant Professor, Chair for Architecture and Urban Design, Prof. Klaus Zillich, TU Berlin.

2011 Guest Critic, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA.

2009 Guest Critic, Columbia University, New York, USA.

2007 Instructor, Rotterdam Academy for Architecture Summer School, NL.

2006-2010 Lectures at different universities worldwide, including Tsinghua University, Beijing, Tongji University Shanghai, Chongqing University, CN; Münster School of Architecture and others.

2005 - 2012 Co-Founder of COBE (in Copenhagen, DK) with Dan Stubbergaard, since then independent architect

2012 Founder and owner of COBE Berlin

2005- 2012 Co-Founder of COBE (in Copenhagen, DK) with Dan Stubbergaard, since then independent architect

2003 Architect in employment, KCAP (Kees Christiaanse Architects and Planners), Rotterdam, NL

2001 Internship, followed by employment, MVRDV, Rotterdam, NL

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

Juraschek M, Boland K, Mumm O, Mennenga M, Dietze S, Carlow VM, & Herrmann C. (under review). Mapping the potential for urbanindustrial symbiosis with simplified data acquisition for the integration into urban planning scenarios. Industrial Ecology.

Abou Jaoude G, Mumm O, & Carlow VM (under review). An Overview of Scenarios and Scenario Approaches: Towards a Guide for Urban Design and Planning. Journal of Planning Literature.

Mühlbach AK, Mumm O, Zeringue R, Redbergs O, Endres E, & Carlow VM. (accepted for publication (2021)). TOPOI RESOURCES: Quantification and assessment of Global Warming Potential and landuptake of residential buildings in settlement types along the urbanrural gradient – opportunities for sustainable development. Sustainability.

Carlow VM, Mumm O, Neumann D, Schmidt N, & Siefer T. (accepted for publication (2021)). TOPOI MOBILITY: Accessibility and settlement types in the urban rural gradient of Lower Saxony – Opportunities for sustainable mobility. Urban, Planning and Transport Research.

Abou Jaoude G, Mumm O, Murad M, & Carlow VM. (accepted for publication (2021)). The Future of Berlin. The Urban Transcripts Journal.

Carlow VM, Mumm O, Neumann D, Schneider A-K, Schröder B, Sedrez M, & Zeringue R. (2021). TOPOI - a method for analysing settlement structures and their linkages in an urban rural fabric. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, under review.

Zhu P, Wilken T, Carlow VM, & Endres E. (2020). A preliminary research on the benchmark of building resource consumption and sustainable strategies in Chinese eastern cities – Qingdao as a case study. In J.Yan, Energy Proceedings Applied Energy Symposium: Low carbon cities and urban energy systems, Tokyo.

Jacob D, Kessel T, & Carlow VM. (Eds.). (2020). Tagungsband des 13.EU-Symposiums am 21.05.2019 in Berlin URBAN.DIGITAL.MOBIL -Bauen in komplexen und vernetzten Strukturen (Vol. D 251).Technische Universität Bergakademie.

Giebels D, Carus J, Paul M, Kleyer M, Siebenhüner B, Arns A, Bartholomä A, Carlow VM., Jensen, J., Tietjen, B., Wehrmann, A., & Schröder, B. (2020). Transdisciplinary knowledge management: A key but underdeveloped skill in EBM decision-making. Marine Policy, 119, 104020. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104020

Carlow VM, Mumm O, Neumann D, & Zeringue R. (2020). TOPOI – Eine neue Typisierung von Stadt-Land Siedlungstypen. MobilEr 2020: Mobilität - Erreichbarkeit - Ländliche Räume, Braunschweig.

Carlow, V. M., Mumm, O., Neumann, D., Sedrez, M., & Zeringue, R. (2020). TOPOI – Urban Rural Settlement Types – Version 1.0. Institute for Sustainable Urbanism. https://doi.org/10.24355/dbbs.084-202003180800-0

Tempelmeier N, Rietz Y, Lishchuk I, Kruegel T, Mumm O, Carlow VM, Dietze S, & Demidova E. (2019). Data4UrbanMobility: Towards Holistic Data Analytics for Mobility Applications in Urban Regions.

Carlow VM, Schmidt V, Neumann D, Mumm O. 2019. Projektakademie Ländlicher Raum - ein kooperativer, inter- und transdisziplinärer Ansatz in der Städtebaulehre. In: Kauffeld S, Othmer J (eds.). 2019. Innovative Lehre. Heidelberg: Springer. Available from: doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-22797-5_25.

Appelhans N, Abou Jaoude G, Carlow VM, Mumm O, Murad M, Schröder B, & Trapp JH. (2019). An interdisciplinary approach to understanding the Open City. Trialog Open City, 136(1).

Sedrez M, Mumm O, Neumann D, & Carlow VM. (2018). Pendlermuster. METAPOLIS Issue #1, (1), 24-25.

Carlow, V. M. (2018). Alternatives Leben im Ländlichen Raum? In A Herbote, M Peschken, Cv Wissel, & GTAS, Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur und Stadt (Eds.), Fund-Stücke: Reflexionen über Objekte der Sammlung für Architektur und Ingenieurbau der TU Braunschweig (saib) (Vol. 19, pp. 122-123). Universitätsbibliothek. https://doi.org/10.24355/dbbs.084-201809041305-0

Carlow VM. 2015. Space as a resource: West Berlin's impossible sites. In: Sustainable Development and Planning. WIT Press/ Computational Mechanics, 251-261. Available from: doi.org/10.2495/SDP150211.

Carlow VM. 2014. Limits-Urban Density and Mobility Networks in West Berlin during the Period of Containment. Sustainability 6(10), 7452-7465. Available from: doi.org/10.3390/su6107452.

Books and Book Chapters (2014-2019)

Carlow VM. 2018. Stadt für Alle. In: Pahl KA, Reuther I, Stubbe P, Tietz J (eds.). 2018. Potenzial Großsiedlung - Zukunftsbilder für die Neue Vahr. Berlin: Jovis, 118-133.

Carlow VM, Christiansen D, Rothfuchs K, Scheler C. 2018. Zukunftsbilder für die Neue Vahr. In: Pahl KA, Reuther I, Stubbe P, Tietz J (eds.). 2018. Potenzial Großsiedlung - Zukunftsbilder für die Neue Vahr. Berlin: Jovis, 80-83.

Carlow VM. 2017. The transformation of the London Green Belt - from Sanitary Scenery, Global City Infrastructure to Sustainable Landscape. In: Voigts E, Pleßke N. (eds.) 2017. Transforming Cities. Heidelberg: Winter a&e

Neumann D, Sedrez M, Carlow VM. 2016. Scenarios for sustainable development of the Lower Saxony. Metapolis. In: Schröder J, Carta M, Ferretti M, Lino B (eds.). 2016. Territories. Rural-Urban Strategies. Berlin: Jovis, 258-265.

Carlow VM, ISU (ed.). 2016. Ruralism. The Future of Villages and Small Towns in an Urbanizing World. Berlin: Jovis.

Carlow VM. 2016. LIMITS. Space as Resource. Berlin: Jovis.

Carlow VM, Hong YW. 2015. Adapting design tools to produce site-specific solutions: three Projects. In: Wang F, Prominski M (eds.). 2015. Urbanization and Locality: Strengthening Identity and Sustainability by Site-specific Planning and Design. Heidelberg: Springer Press, 359-383.

Carlow VM. 2014. From Greenbelt to Infrabelt - London's Green Belt as a Model for Sustainable Landscape? In: Sörensen C, Liedtke K (eds.). 2014. Specifics - Discussing Landscape Architecture. Berlin: Jovis, 212-215.

Carlow VM. 2014. Zukunft Gestalten - Perspektiven der Stadt im 21. Jahrhundert. In: Wékel J (ed.). 2013. Beiträge zu einer ökologisch orientierten Moderne? Auf der Suche nach einer sozial gerechten, offenen und Ressourcen schonenden Gesellschaft. Almanach 2013/2014. Berlin: Deutsche Akademie für Städtebau und Landesplanung. 446-459.

Other Publications

Carlow VM. 2017. Perspektiven einer wissensbasierten, kooperativen und offenen Stadtentwicklungspolitik. In: Bundesinstitut für Bau-, Stadt- und Raumforschung (BBSR) im Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung (BBR) (ed.). 2017. Stadt im Fokus - 10 Jahre Nationale Stadtentwicklungspolitik. Bonn: BBSR.

Carlow VM, Neumann D, Sedrez M, Mumm O. 2017. Exo Village, Peri Urb, and Meta Town: TOPOI of Settlement Types in the Metapolis. In: Steinführer A, et al. (eds.) 2017. Ruralgeo: New Rural Geographies in Europe. Braunschweig: Thünen Institut.

Bormann R, Carlow VM, Christmann A, Dangschat J, et al. 2016. Das Soziale Quartier - Quartierspolitik für Teilhabe, Zusammenhalt und Lebensqualität. (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik, (ed.) Berlin: FES.

Carlow VM, Hong YW. 2015. Growing a City for 1,000,000: Master Plan for the City between the Forest and the Ocean. Senegal. Urban Ecologies. Conference Proceedings. Toronto: OCAD University.

Carlow VM, Larsen S. 2014. P10. Arcostraße. In: Ring K (2014) Urban Living Berlin. Berlin Senat für Stadtentwicklung und Umwelt, 48-49.

Research Funding: Open Public Competitive Research Projects, Ongoing

• ISU SPACE LAB

The Institute for Sustainable Urban Development (ISU) at Technische Universität Braunschweig is receiving one million euros from the Volkswagen Foundation to support its „ISU SPACE LAB“ within the framework of the „Momentum – Promotion of First-Appointed Professors“ funding line. The institute, headed by Professor Vanessa Miriam Carlow since 2012, links architecture, urban development and planning to a variety of other disciplines in the context of a common basis: sustainable cities and urban regions for all.

With the support of the „Momentum“ grant, the Institute will expand its research in digital urbanism. With regard to the transformation and development of future cities and urban regions, digitization plays an increasingly important role. In order to explore the digital realm for urban development, the ISU will establish a dedicated infrastructure – the so-called „ISU SPatial Analytics + Crossdisciplinary Experimentation Lab“, short ISU SPACE LAB, a state-of-the-art competence center for multidisciplinary urban research. This laboratory explores the digital domain (data, methods and infrastructures) in order to overcome the disciplinary boundaries of architecture, urban development and planning. The laboratory aims to expand the possibilities for better participatory planning processes, optimise resource use (including physical space) and finally achieve a better understanding of the needs of urban space and infrastructure users.

The goal is to develop holistic methods and strategies for more sustainable development, thereby promoting economic, social and environmental well-being in urban agglomerations and communities. Part of the ISU SPACE LAB is the TRIPLING component, an experimental setup for coupling the investigation of real physical spaces, digital and physical models.

With the help of ISU SPACE LAB, Professor Carlow and her team will be able to elevate her work to the next level from exploring inherited and „conventional“ methods of urban design towards a more explorative and hypothesis-driven research into sustainable urbanism.

• _2019-2024 LEIBNIZ SCIENCE CAMPUS. Post Digital Participaton.

Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research (GEI). Member of the Leibniz Association, Braunschweig (lead), German Maritime Museum - Leibniz Institute for Maritime History (Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum), Bremerhaven (DSM), Institute for Sustainable Urbanism (ISU), Technische Universität Braunschweig, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenbüttel / Salzgitter (Ostfalia), Haus der Wissenschaft Braunschweig GmbH (HdW), Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (Knowledge Media Research Center), Tübingen (IWM)

• _2019-2024 EAST-CITIES Establishing and Achieving SustainabilityTargets in Eastern Chinese Cities.

ISU (lead) with Institute for Building Services and Energy Design, Institute for Engineering Design, Institute of Geoecology, Institute of Machine Tools and Production Technology, Institute of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering, Institute of Transportation and Urban Engineering (all TU Braunschweig), L3S Research Center Leibniz University Hanover, College of Architecture & Urban Planning Tongji, UNEP TONGJI Institute of Environment for Sustainable Development, Department of Comprehensive Transportation Information, Department of Transportation Management Engineering (all Tongji University Shanghai) and Qingdao City, funded by Federal Ministry for Education and Research BMBF, framework "Sustainable Urban Regions", PI

• ₂₀₁₉ International TechKNOWlogy Entrepreneurship Hub.

Entrepreneurship Hub der Ostfalia Hochschule, der TU Braunschweig und der HBK Braunschweig (lead), Research Center for Digitalization, Informatics and Information Technology (TUBS.digital), Innovationsgesellschaft Technische Universität Braunschweig mbH (iTUBS), International Office TU Braunschweig, Institute for Sustainable Urbanism (ISU), Institute of Operating Systems and Computer Networks (IBR), Institute for Engineering Design (IK), Institute of Machine Tools and Production Technology (IWF), Automotive Research Centre Lower Saxony (NFF), Aeronautics Research Centre Niedersachsen Lower Saxony (NFL), Open Hybrid LabFactory e.V. (OHLF), Technology Transfer Office TU Braunschweig. Funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)

• _2017-2019 SINGAPORE ISUrF-Hub Establishing a joined industrial symbiosis and urban factories-hub in Singapore.

Institute for Sustainable Manufacturing and Life Cycle Engineering and ISU (both lead) with Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology and regional partners. Funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) in the framework of "Konzeptions- und Vorbereitungsmaßnahmen zur Etablierung gemeinsamer Forschungspräsenzen" PI.

• _2017-2020 Data4UrbanMobility: Data-based Mobility Services for the Future City (D4UM).

ISU with L3S / Leibniz University Hannover (lead), momatec GmbH, Hannoversche Informationstechnologien AöR, Projektionisten GmbH and Wolfsburg AG. Funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research BMBF, PI

• _2016-2021  OFFENE STADT: Theorien, Perspektiven, Instrumente.

ISU (lead) with Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik Berlin (DiFU), TU Dortmund, Universität Bonn, KIT, Senat Chancellery Berlin (Department for Strategic Planning) and Senate for Urban Development and Housing Berlin. Funded by Robert Bosch Stiftung within the framework "Spielraum. Urbane Transformation gestalten."PI

• _2016-2020 METAPOLIS. Inter- and transdisciplinary platform for sustainable development for Lower Saxony.

ISU and Institute for Geoecology, TU Braunschweig (both lead) with Institute for Social Sciences, Institute of Transport, Railway Construction and Operation, Institute for Building Services and Energy Design, Institute for Business Sciences, Chair for Information Systems (all TU Braunschweig), and Institute for Hydromechanics (Leibniz University Hannover) Funded by VW Vorab and the Ministry for Science and Culture Lower Saxony (MWK), PI and co-speaker

• _2017-2018  iSCOR. Eye-tracking Spatial Experience - Interdisciplinary Studio for Communicational and Observational Research.

ISU (lead) with Institute for Psychology, TU Braunschweig. Funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) in the framework of "teach4TU" and "Transferprogram" of TU Braunschweig, PI

Research Funding: Open Public Competitive Research Projects, Finalist

• _{2017 (5 years)} Den Digitalen Wandel gestalten.

Konzept für das Deutsche Internet Institut (DII). ISU with L3S Hannover (lead), Leibniz University Hannover, SOFI Göttingen, TU Braunschweig, University Göttingen, University Kassel, University Koblenz-Landau, PI

• _2017-2018 RELEEZE - RELease from coastal squEEZE.

Understanding and preventing critical tipping points under future sea level rise. ISU with Institute for Geoecology (lead), TU Braunschweig, Carl-von-Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg. Funded as prototyping phase for submitting full proposal by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) in the framework of BioTip/Fona3. PI

• _2017-2018 AgroEcoSOS.

AGROECOlogical solutions for Safe and fair Operating Spaces of agricultural systems in the urban-rural transition zone. ISU with Institute for Geoecology (lead), TU Braunschweig, Julius Kühn Institute (JKI), Thünen Institut (TI), UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig. Funded as prototyping phase for submitting full proposal by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) in the framework of "Agrarsysteme der Zukunft". PI

Research Funding: Open Public Competitive Research Projects, Completed

• _2017-2018 Designing with Nature.

Tools for interdisciplinary design with permaculture - in cooperation with Institute of Geoecology, funded by Ministry for Education and Culture Lower Saxony, PI

• ₂₀₁₆ TBILISI AVLABARI - Urban laboratory for a post-socialist city.

An inter- and transdisciplinary project. ISU (lead) with Ilia State University Tbilisi, CAMPUS Tbilisi (Georgia), Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Regional Office Southern Caucasus) and Goethe-Institut Georgia. Funded by the program "Strengthening cooperation with civil society in the Eastern partnership", German Ministry of Foreign Affairs Berlin through German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), PI

• ₂₀₁₆ URBAN TOOLBOX - An interactive platform for teaching urban design.

Funded by the program "in medias res" in the framework of teach4TU of TU Braunschweig funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), PI

• _2015-2017 MAKING CITY: Fundamentals of Urban Design. bsMOOC.

Massive Open Online Course (TU9-Alliance). ISU (lead) with Chair for Urban Design and Urbanization, TU Berlin. bsMOOC group with Institute for Engineering Design and Institute of Jet propulsion and Turbomachinery. Funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) in the framework of "teach4TU", PI

• _2015-2016 Data Mining - Data Mapping.

ISU (lead) with Institute of Geoecology (IGÖ). Funded by "Transfer program for innovative teaching concepts" in the framework of teach4TU of TU Braunschweig funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), PI

• _2014-2015 SustainableCityGame. Digital Platform for Sustainability Scenarios in Lower Saxony.

Funded by the program "in medias res" in the framework of teach4TU of TU Braunschweig funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), PI

• _2014-2015 Academy of Rural Spaces. A Transdisciplinary Design studio.

Funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) in the framework of "teach4TU" of TU Braunschweig, PI

• ₂₀₁₈ ISU Talks #06: OPEN CITY FORUM. Research Group: Institut für Geoökologie (IGÖ), TU Dortmund, Deutsches Institutfür Urbanistik; Cooperation: City of Berlin; Funded by Robert Bosch Stiftung; Partners: TU Braunschweig, Alfred Herrhausen Foundation, Trialog, Berlin Science Week. PI.
• ₂₀₁₇ ISU Talks #05: FUTURE CITIES. Urbanism in a digitalizing world. Funded by Alfred Herrhausen Foundation, TU Braunschweig, Spanish Embassy, BS|Energy.
• ₂₀₁₆ ISU Talks #04: URBAN AFRICA. Funded by Alfred Herrhausen Foundation, Association for Promoting the Art of Building Lower Saxony, TU Braunschweig, and TU Braunschweig Student Association, PI.
• ₂₀₁₅ ISU Talks #03: RURALISM. The Future of Villages and Small Towns in an Urbanizing World. Funded by the Ministry for Science and Culture Lower Saxony (MWK), Alfred Herrhausen Foundation, Association for Promoting the Art of Building Lower Saxony, TU Braunschweig, and TU Braunschweig Student Association, PI
• ₂₀₁₄ ISU Talks #02: MOBILE CITIES. How Mobility improves People's Lifes. Funded by the Alfred Herrhausen Foundation, Wüstenrot Foundation, Wolfsburg AG, Metropolregion HannoverBraunschweigGöttingenWolfsburg, TU Braunschweig PI
• ₂₀₁₃ ISU Talks #01: THE HOUSING QUESTION. Funded by TU Braunschweig

• ₂₀₂₁  Urban Lab Weststadt. Master Entwuf studio focusing on urban infill and densification urban design strategies in post-war socialist housing.
• ₂₀₂₁  Urban Lab Weststadt. Bachelor thesis studio focusing on urban infill and densification urban design strategies in post-war socialist housing.
• ₂₀₂₁  Dust2cloud +. Interdisciplinary seminar in collaboration with the Institut für Geodäsie und Photogrammetrie.
• ₂₀₂₁  Let's walk...and talk. Summer workshop in collaboration with Alexander Lech BÜROHALLO, Dessau + Grit Bümann.
• _2020-2021  Creative Campus. Bachelor thesis studio focusing on mixed-use architecture densification in the central campus of TU Braunschweig.
• _2020-2021  Open Campus. SP Urban design studio focusing on multidimensional structural diversity and contemporary educational campus design.
• ₂₀₂₀  World=City=Vision. Eine Visionäre Stadt-Utopie. Master design studio focusing on sustainable future urban design visions.
• ₂₀₂₀  Sustainable Urbanism. A Critical Discussion on Theory, Visions and Design visions. Seminar focusing on the physical and non-physical elements of sustainable urban form.
• ₂₀₂₀  Urban Disaster Studio. Seminar focusing on disaster preparedness, resilience and reduction of natural disasters.
• ₂₀₂₀  Vitapolis. Workshop on tactical urban design interventions in cooperation with Octagon.
• _2019-2020  Urban Analytics. Computational Tools to Decipher Space. In cooperation with 300.000 Km/s
• _2019-2020 Westland. Sustainable Alternatives for the Glass City. Master Thesis 
• _2019-2020 World = City = Vision. Urban design studio for BA (2nd year) students.
• ₂₀₁₈ Design with Nature. Tools for interdisciplinary design with permaculture. In cooperation with Institute of Geoecology, funded by Ministry for Education and Culture Lower Saxony, PI.
• _2017-2018 Magdeburg, Nachbarschaften von Morgen Urban design studio for BA (2nd year) students in cooperation with the city of Magdeburg.
• _2017-2019 TBILISI. Urban laboratory for a post-socialist city II. ISU (lead) with Ilia State University Tbilisi and regional partners. Funded by the program "ERASMUS+ KA107", German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). PI.
• _2017-2018 iSCOR. Eye-tracking Spatial Experience - Interdisciplinary Studio for Communicational and Observational Research. In cooperation with Institute for Psychology. Awarded with LehrLEO-Award 2018, Award for good teaching practice by TU Braunschweig. Funded by TU Braunschweig in the framework of "Transferprogram", PI.
• ₂₀₁₇ Building Better Cities. Cornell University, MA class as guest Professor at Cornell University.
• ₂₀₁₇ Urban Transformation, São Paulo. International urban design studio in cooperation with UNICAMP, Prof. Gabriela Celani.
• ₂₀₁₇ Braunschweig Nonfiction. Urban Participation and Intervention Workshop, in cooperation with BüroHallo Dessau.
• _2015-2017 MAKING CITY. bsMOOCs. Massive Open Online Course (TU9 -Alliance). ISU (lead) in cooperation with Chair for Urban Design and Urbanization, TU Berlin. Nominated for LehrLEO-Award 2017, Award for good teaching practice by TU Braunschweig; funded by BMBF.
• _2016-2017 Between Cotton, Platte and Smoke. Cooperative urban design studio for BA (1st year) in cooperation with the city of Leipzig.
• ₂₀₁₆ Impossible Sites. International Summer School at AEDES Campus in cooperation with IDAS (Prof. Almut Grüntuch-Ernst and Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Prof. Dr. Victor Andrade, funded by DAAD.
• _2015-2016 Mittenmang. (De)Coding Hamburg in Brandshof. Urban design studio for BA students (1st/2nd year) in cooperation with the Authority for Urban Development and Habitation (BSW), supported by HafenCity University (HCU) and HafenCity GmbH.
• _2015-2016 Pupils. Eye Tracking Spatial Experiences. Research seminar, funded by German Ministry for Education and Research.
• _2015-2016 Data Mining Data Mapping. Inter- and transdisciplinary research seminar in cooperation with Institute of Geoecology Funded by "Transfer program for innovative teaching concepts" in the framework of teach4TU of TU Braunschweig funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), PI.
• ₂₀₁₅ MLK: 100 Kilometer. 1.000.000 People. An research-based urban design studio for BA students (Thesis, 3rd year) in cooperation with the Association of German Architects (BDA) and LUH, Prof. Dr. Martin Prominski.
• _2015-2016 Sustainable City Tools. Design seminar introducing new instruments and methods for integrated urban development and design; in cooperation with German Sustainble Building Council (DGNB).
• _2014-2015 Academy of Rural Spaces. Urban design studio in the framework of the program teach4TU of TU Braunschweig, funded by BMBF, in cooperation with five municipalities.
• _2014-2015 From Restricted Area to New Center. A cooperative urban design project for BA (2nd year) in cooperation with the city of Rostock.
• ₂₀₁₄ The Gowanus Challenge: Brooklyn, New York.  Cooperative urban design studio for MA-level students, in cooperation with David Briggs of Gowanus by Design, EPA New York, excursion funded by DAAD.
• ₂₀₁₄ Design to Build: Bookcase at Nibelungenplatz. Design to built workshop with students in cooperation with public housing corporation Nibelungen Wohnbau GmbH, Nibelungen School, Lebenshilfe Braunschweig GmbH, and citizen association Pro Siegfried e.V., Funded by Nibelungen Wohnbau.
• ₂₀₁₄ The 10th condition of Riga. Upgrading the city's microrayons. Cooperative urban project for master-level students in cooperation with the Office of the City Architect, Riga, and the Riseba University Riga.
• _2013-2014 Of Betongold and Schrottimmobilien. Assessing the impact of global markets on a northern German town. Cooperative urban design studio (Master thesis) in cooperation with the Department of Urban Planning in Bremerhaven. Funded by the City of Bremerhaven.
• _2013-2014 An Impossible Site - 100% gun free. Cooperative urban design studio for BA (3rd year) with the City Architect, Senator for Environment, Building and Transport Bremen. Funded by City of Bremen.

• ₂₀₁₉ Board member and speaker of the research center "Future City"^{, TU Braunschweig}
• ₂₀₁₉ Member of the Steering Committee of Leibniz Science Campus “Postdigital Participation”
• ₂₀₁₉ Member of the Committee for Tourism, City of Berlin
• ₂₀₁₆ Member of the Design Committee, City of Stuttgart (^{Gestaltungsbeirat})
• _2017-2018 Member of Scientific Committee "Housing" of Berlin (^{Fachbeirat Wohnraumversorgung des Landes Berlin, A.ö.R})
• _2016-2018 Member of Scientific Committee "100% Climate Neutral Region Braunschweig"
• _2015-2016 Member of Scientific Committee "Social Quarters" Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
• _2015-2018 Co-speaker of the research center "Future City"^{, TU Braunschweig}
• _2013-2017 Head of the Tenants' Council Petriplatz of Public Housing Corporation ^{WBM, Berlin}
• _2012-2018 Head of the Design Committee, City of Braunschweig (^{Gestaltungsbeirat})
• _2012-2016 Member of the Scientific Council Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment^{, Senator Michael Müller}
• ₂₀₀₉ Member of the several Juries for architecture and urban design competitions

Other Memberships

• ₂₀₁₅ Member "Flussbad Berlin e.V."
• _2015-2018 Member "Architekturverein Berlin e.V."
• ₂₀₁₄ Appointed Auditor of the German Sustainable Building Council Bauen (^DGNB)
• ₂₀₁₃ Appointed to the Association of German Architects'(^{Bund Deutscher Architekten, BDA})
• ₂₀₁₂ Member Danish Architects' Association (^{Akademisk Arkitektforening, MAA})
• ₂₀₁₂ Member Berlin Architect Chamber^{, AKB}

• ₂₀₁₉ Nominated for LehrLEO-Award 2019, Award for good teaching practice awarded by TU Braunschweig for "Entwerfen mit der Natur: Werkzeuge für interdisziplinäres Arbeiten mit Permakultur"
• ₂₀₁₈ LehrLEO-Award 2018, Award for good teaching practice by TU Braunschweig for "iSCOR - Interdisciplinary Studio for Communicational and Observational Research"
• ₂₀₁₇ Nominated for LehrLEO-Award 2017, Award for good teaching practice awarded by TU Braunschweig for "MAKING CITIES. bsmoocs"
• _2014-2015 Fellow Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation 2012 MIPIM Award - Best Refurbished Building (Library Copenhagen Nordvest) 2011 "Hovestadens Forskønnelses Pris", Award for the best public building in the City of Copenhagen (Library Copenhagen Nordvest)
• ₂₀₁₀ Visiting Architect, Travel Scholarship of the Danish Arts Foundation (Statens Kunstfond)
• ₂₀₀₈ Designpulje: Award for "considerable contributions to Danish Architecture", awarded by the Danish Minister for Culture (Statens Kunstfond)
• ₂₀₀₆ Golden Lion, Best Pavillon, 10th Architecture Biennale Venice
• ₂₀₀₅ Phd Scholarship Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Copenhagen
• ₂₀₀₁ Heinz-Knobloch-Travel Scholarship