Georg-Simmel-Zentrum für Stadtforschung

Forschungsprojekte / Research Projects

Here you will find the current and completed research projects of the GSZ

Current Research Projects

Completed Research Projects

 


Current Research Projects

 

International Workshop "Resilience and Sustainable Reconstruction of Ukrainian Cities" 🖉

 

Reimagining Urban Ecosystems through a Multispecies Justice Lens (Dr. Pouya Sepehr)🖉

Urban Futures at Risk (Dr. Ulku Doganay, Dr. Olena Kononenko, Dr. Valeria Lazarenko, Dr. Oleg Pachenkov, Dr. Oksana Zaporozhetc, PI Prof. Blokland) 🖉

Surface for Urban Innovation: The Politics of Designing Poverty in Colombia and Czechia (Dr. Petr Vašát)

Infrastructure Multispecies Encouters: An Ethnography of more-than-human urban assemblages in Berlin's Petting Zoos (Dr. Santiago Orrego) 🖉

Architectures of Caring Encounters with Street-Homelessness (Dr. Natalia Martini)

Urban Political Podcast (Dr. Markus Kip & Dr. Ross Beveridge)

Urban Vibrations: How Physical Waves Come to Matter in Contemporary Urbanism (Prof. Farías)

Geographical Imaginations: Ontological (In)Securities in Rural Areas (Prof. Helbrecht)

Urban Microclimate Planning Regimes: The Constitution of Spaces and Infrastructures of Heat (Prof. Farías)

Stock Development through Public-Civic Partnerships. Forms of Cooperation, Controversies and Modelling Attempts of the Model Projects of Cooperative Urban Development in Berlin. (Haus der Statistik und Rathausblock Kreuzberg) (Prof. Farías)

Dynamics of placemaking and digitization in Europe's cities (Dr. Shea & PD Dr. Oevermann)

Konferenz: Seeing like a City/ Seeing the City Through (Prof. Blokland)

Studie zur Bodycam-Evaluation (Prof. Blokland)

HoPoFin (Dr. Holm)

Listening to the Archive: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of European Wildlife Sound Archives, 1950 to the present (Prof. Jasper)

Archäologie der Nachbarschaft. Eine dekoloniale Kooperation in Berlin Mitte (Prof. Römhild, together with Dr. Michael Westrich)

Designing with the Planet. Connecting Riparian Zones of Struggle in São Paulo, Jakarta, and Berlin (Prof. Jasper, in collaboration with Prof. Farías)

IRTG Transformative Religion as Situated Knowledge in Processes of Social Transformation (Chairperson/PI/SUpervisor Prof. Römhild)

Governing through Design (Prof. Mareis)

MAKE/SENSE International Graduate School of Art and Design (Prof. Mareis)

RTG Minor Cosmopolitanisms (PI / Supervisor Prof. Römhild)🖉

 

 


Berlin University Alliance

 

Trash Games. Playing with the Circular Economy at Haus der Materialisierungen (Prof. Farías, in Collaboration with TU Berlin)

 


Completed Research Projects

 

"Märkte in Ghana und Infektionsschutz-Maßnahmen nach COVID-19" (Dr. Füller)🖉

 

Superdiversität und alternde Städte (Prof. Helbrecht)🖉

 

"Kreuzberg-Studie" (Prof. Blokland)🖉

 

Trash Games. Playing with the Circular Economy at Haus der Materialisierung (Prof. Farías) 🖉

 

Urban Citizenship-Making at Times of Crisis. Building local-level resilience among migrants in Berlin, Copenhagen, and Tel-Aviv (Dr. Lebuhn) 🖉

 

Open Heritage: Organizing, Promoting and Enabling Heritage Re-use through Inclusion, Technology, Access, Governance and Empowerment (PD Dr. Oevermann, Dr. Kip) 🖉

 

The World Down my Street (Prof. Blokland)

 

Urban Paradoxes in Times of Crisis (Prof. Blokland)

 

Connecting Urbanity in and between North and South Africa from the Perspective of Justice and Accessibility. Reflections on Planning Practice & Theory from multiple case studies in Egypt and South Africa (Prof. Farías)

 

Converting historic textile-industry complexes in European cities: A typology of urban spatial structures of textile-industry complexes, and best conservation and enhancement practices for their conversion (PD Dr. Oevermann)

 

Geographical Imaginations: Security and Insecurity in Generational Comparison (Prof. Helbrecht) 🖉

 

RECIPES (Reconciling Science, Innovation and Precaution through the Engagement of Stakeholders), Subproject: “Precaution and Financial Risks in Implementing the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive: Cities Investing in Water Infrastructures” (Prof. Mieg)

 

Vernetzte Daten Kompetenz (Dr. Holm, Dr. Schultze)

 

Workshop: Working/Class/City (Prof. Blokland)

 

Modern Heritage to Future Legacy: Conservation and Conversion of Modern Industrial Heritage Sites as an Integral Part of Urban Development in the Middle East: The Case of Iran and Egypt (PD Dr. Oevermann)

 

Einkommen, Miete, Ungleichheit. Analyse der Wohnverhältnisse in deutschen Großstädten (2006-2018) (Dr. Holm)

 

Re-Scaling Global Health. Human Health and Multispecies Cohabitation on an Urban Planet (in Collaboration with Prof. Farías & TU Berlin, FU Berlin, Charité)

 

COVID-19 Getting things done in a city on hold (Prof. Blokland, in collaboration with TU Berlin) 🖉

 

Connecting Urbanity in and between North and South Africa from the
The perspective of Justice and Accessibility. Reflections on Planning Practice & Theory from multiple case studies in Egypt and South Africa (Prof. Farías, in collaboration with TU Berlin)

 

Modern Heritage to Future Legacy: Conservation and Conversion of
Modern Industrial Heritage Sites as an Integral Part of Urban Development in the Middle East: The Case of Iran and Egypt (Dr. Oevermann, in collaboration with Tarbiat Modares University, Architecture and Urban Planning, Iran, TU Berlin)

 

Urban Paradoxes in Times of Crisis (Prof. Blokland, in Collaboration with TU Berlin, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Université de Bouaké, Universidad Católica de Chile, Universitat de Barcelona)