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Prof. Dr. Vanessa Miriam Carlow was appointed full professor at the TU Braunschweig in 2012, where she heads the Institute for Sustainable Urbanism (ISU).
She is a licensed architect and urban planner, and co-founder of COBE in Copenhagen with Dan Stubbergaard (2005- 2012) and COBE Berlin (2012), a practice focusing on architecture, urban planning, public space design, and research. Carlow studied architecture at TU Berlin and TU Delft (1995-2002). She holds a MA in Urban Management from Erasmus University Rotterdam, Copenhagen University, Ca Foscari Venice, Autonomous University Barcelona and Antwerp University (2004), and a PhD from the Center for Strategic Planning at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2012).
In 2013, Carlow was appointed Member of the German Association of Architects (BDA) and auditor of the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB). Dr. Carlow has lectured and taught at universities worldwide, including Tsinghua University, Tongji University, Riseba Riga, Penn State University and Cornell University.
Carlow's research explores sustainable land use patterns, urban form and practices, urban-rural relations, and participatory planning. Her professional work has garnered prestigious prizes, including the Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale (2006, Best National Pavilion), the MIPIM Award Cannes (2012), and the Golden Medal for the best of Copenhagen Buildings (2012).
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
2002
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
1995
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
Carlow VM, Schmidt V, Neumann D, Mumm O. 2019 (forthcoming). 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.
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.
• Digitale Stadt. Bauwelt vom 10.01.2019
• Gemeinsam stark: Siedlungsnetzwerke für ländliche Regionen. detail.de vom 17.12.2018
• Ausgezeichnete Lehre an der TU, Braunschweiger Zeitung 12.06.2018
• Mobilität in der Stadt: Welche Visionen brauchen wir für die Zukunft?, DLF Länderzeit, 04.04.2018
• Breaking the walls to liveable cities!, Falling Walls Conference Berlin. 2017, 09.11.2017
• Kleine Gemeinden - aktiv und nachhaltig, Ti! - Technologie-Informationen, 04.2017
• Was Braunschweig von Dessau lernen kann, Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, 07.03.2017
• Gestaltungsbeirat in Stuttgart. Fachleute machen ordentliche Ansagen. Stuttgarter Zeitung, 25.01.2017
• Ein Beirat der klaren Worte. Erste Sitzung des Gestaltungsbeirats in Stuttgart. Stuttgarter Nachrichten, 24.01.2017
• Stuttgarter Gestaltungsbeirat nimmt Arbeit auf. Ein vielversprechender Anfang. Stuttgarter Zeitung, 24.01.2017
• Die MINT-Probe. ARD alpha, Magazin Campus, 17.10.216. Available from: br.de/s/2ZMvm6q
• Alles schön und gut? An der Urania wurde über Chancen und Risiken des Wohnungsbaus diskutiert. Tagesspiegel Berlin, 28.09.2016
• Wie grüne Städte geplant werden. Westdeutsche Allgemeine WAZ, 19.04.2016
• Großstädtische Vision für Remlingen. Bei Wettbewerb für Wissenschafts-Campus gewinnt Entwurf aus Berlin/Hamburg, Asse nah dran, 11/2015
• Visionen für Urbane Strukturen, Neue Braunschweiger, 14.11.2015
• TU plant Stadt der Zukunft, Braunschweiger Zeitung, 13.11.2015. also published at: Helmstedter Nachrichten, Peiner Nachrichten, Wolfenbütteler Zeitung und Anzeiger, 13.11.2015
• Feldforschung Atommüll, Bauwelt 32-33.2015
• Schweinemast im Hochhaus. TU Braunschweig bringt ungewöhnliche Idee am Beispiel Samtgemeinde Bersenbrück ins Gespräch, Neue OZ Osnabrücker Zeitung, 25.08.2015
• Warum Radfahrer für jede Metropole ein Segen sind, WELT Online, 29.08.2015. Available from: www.welt.de/finanzen/immobilien/article145776454/
• Fahrrad first, Welt Online, 23.08.2015. Available from: www.welt.de/finanzen/article145519061/
• Zwischen Stadt und Land bestehen Abhängigkeiten, Braunschweiger Zeitung, 17.08.2015. also published at: Gifhorner Rundschau, 17.08.2015, Helmstedter Nachrichten, 17.08.2015, Peiner Nachrichten, 17.08.2015, Salzgitter-Zeitung, 17.08.2015, Wolfenbütteler Zeitung und Anzeiger, 17.08.2015, Wolfsburger Nachrichten, 17.08.2015
• Studierende entwickeln städtebauliche Idee für Vechelde, Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung, 12.08.2015
• Städtebau! - Eine Debatte um die Gestalt der Stadt, Stadtbauwelt-Gespräch 12.2015
• Neue Bauideen für Vechelde, Peiner Nachrichten, 30.07.2015
• Hildesheimer Straße als Erlebnisraum, Braunschweiger Zeitung, 29.07.2015
• Studenten präsentieren Ideen für Wolfshagen, Goslarische Zeitung, 24.07.2015
• TU-Stadtplaner begleiten städtebaulichen Ideen-Wettbewerb in der Region: Innovations- und Kompetenzcampus für die Asse, Wolfenbütteler Schaufenster, 15.07.2015
• Eine Sitzbank soll bei der Ideenfindung helfen, Wolfsburger Allgemeine, 13.07.2015
• Nette Bank - und sonst kaum Interesse, Isenhagener Kreisblatt, 13.07.2015
• Fördergeld für die Hauptstrasse?, Wolfsburger Allgemeine, 30.06.2015
• Star-Architekten und der Tunnel des Grauens am ZOB, Tagesspiegel Berlin, 26.06.2015
• Basis für ein Nachhaltigkeitsprojekt in Bersenbrück, Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, 29.05.2015
• Kreis startet Wettbewerb für neuen Campus, Braunschweiger Zeitung, 28.05.2015
• Hilfreicher Blick von Außen, Diepholzer Kreisblatt, 15.05.2015
• Projektakademie Ländlicher Raum, Diepholzer Kreisblatt, 15.05.2015
• Mobilität in den Städten, Braunschweiger Zeitung, 01.11.2014
• Wolfshäger Zukunftswerkstatt bastelt an vielen Ideen, Goslarische Zeitung, 25.10.2014
• Ideen für Bromer Hauptstrasse gesucht, Isenhagener Kreisblatt, 31.03.2014
• Junge Leute denken das Unmögliche, Wolfsburger Nachrichten, 14.03.2014
• Wege in die Zukunft für die Stadt der Moderne, Wolfsburger Blatt, 05.03.2014
• Institut für Städtebau interessiert sich für Brome, Wolfsburger Allgemeine, 16.01.2014
Research Funding: Open Public Competitive Research Projects, Ongoing
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.
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)
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
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)
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Tools for interdisciplinary design with permaculture - in cooperation with Institute of Geoecology, funded by Ministry for Education and Culture Lower Saxony, PI
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
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
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
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
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
Funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) in the framework of "teach4TU" of TU Braunschweig, PI
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