August

ITD27

“Bridging Knowledge and Networks: Inter- and Transdisciplinarity for Transformative Change”, 

hosted by the University of Évora in Évora, Portugal, 31 May – 4 June 2027.

Happy to be on the scientific board of the ITD27 conference. Amazing contributions!

July

THF vision 2036

Thank you to the Urban Management Program at TU Berlin for letting me teach one module during the summer term 2026 on governance and biodiversity by the example of Tempelhofer Feld!

Documentation is coming!

April to July

transdisciplinarity

It has been an interesting spring/summer with a renewed focus on transdisciplinarity, especially in the realm of education. Thank you Torsten Masseck, PhD from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) for reaching out and to TH Kölln and TH Bremen for the fruitful collaboration. It showed me how relevant our work captured in the publication Enabling the City (Routledge, 2021) still is.

Check out the open access version here:

March:

Podcast: Planetaryplanning

I was invited to the Podcast Planetaryplanning by amazing Kim Charlotta Schönfeld to talk about how we need to rethink housing and focus more on co-habitation in our cities. Check it out here: https://planetaryplanning.substack.com/p/rethinking-housing-and-co-habitation

Take aways:

·       Asking what is enough, how human spaces and resource use can be “right-sized”

·       What kind of futures to we want to and should train the next generation of planners and architects to envision and to shape?

·       Revise underlying values and move from a people-centred to a more multi species approach - how can we create co-habitation in our future cities?

·       Government involvement on issues like: do we need to build at all, and if or when we do, how we prioritize who we build for - ask “who do we serve?”

·       Apply transdisciplinary and transformative learning processes with students at universities

·       Join or make a movement with others working on such themes across various disciplines and focus points

January:

It was an honour to serve as a jury member for the competition “urban retreat – London” focusing on the conversion of the former Haggerston Baths facility in London into a new communal space.  

Our latest book came out in December 2025!

Check it out here -> https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7632-7/urban-contact-zones/

December:

“Circular construction doesn’t need more ideas. It needs people who bring them to life.”

(Stefanie Weavers, www.habitatcolab.io ).

In December 2025, I joined the upcoming network of experts on circularity in the building industry. I am excited to be part of this and look forward to working with all the excellent people involved in shaping resilient circularity and to push for the agenda of ‘rightsizing’ on a global scale.

October:

I got elected to be Tempelhoferfeld koordinatorin for the next three years.

Thank you for your support!

HURRA! We handed in the manuscript to the publisher! Coming this fall.

August:

Report on “Form Follows Life” is out now!

May:

Talk on how to optimize the use of existing m2

call is out now!