Research

Academic Engagements

15|09|2026

BOOK LAUNCH   |  „Contact Zones: Architectural Encounters in the Post-Anthropocene“, Issue 10/2025, Dimensions Journal of Architectural Knowledge. Co-edited together with Lidia Gasperoni (KU Leuven), Beata Hemer (Royal Danish Academy), and Guro Sollid (Royal Danish Academy)

Copenhagen, DK

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07-11|09|2026

BIENNALE   |  Visit of the First Pan-African Biennale in Nairobi, curated by Omar Degan

Nairobi, KE

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08-10|09|2026

CONFERENCE PAPER  |  „An Archive of Living-Things: African Landscapes as a Teaching Script for Sustainable Practices“, together with Dr. Silvia Benedito (Harvard), AFRAUHN Conference, University of Nairobi

Nairobi, KE

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31-06|09|2026

RESEARCH VISIT  |  at University of Dar es Salaam and Sansibar, Tanzania

Dar es Salaam, TZ

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25|07|2026

LUNCH TALK  |  „Contact Zones Lunch Talk“, Guest Lecture mit Cathelijne Nuijsink (ETH Zürich) und Feifei Zhou (Columbia GSAPP), co-organisiert mit Lidia Gasperoni (UCL), Beata Hemer und Guro Sollid (beide Royal Danish Academy) im Rahmen des Gast-Editoriums der Issue 11 von Dimensions Journal of Architectural Knowledge, TU München

Amsterdam, NL

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25|06|2026

PHD THESIS DEFENSE  |  „Earthly Stage: Tracing Architectural Agency in the Post-Anthropocene“ – Thesis Defense at Bauhaus-University Weimar, together with Jasper Cepl (first supervisor), Richard Woditsch (second supervisor), and Hélène Frichot (examiner)

Weimar, DE

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21-23|11|2024

CONFERENCE PAPER  | “From Object to Body: Redefining Architectural Agency”, AHRA Conference „Body Matters,“ Norwich

Norwich, GB

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19-23|09|2024

CONFERENCE PAPER  | Beyond Already-Exhausted Perspectives and Fetishizations of the Architectural Object: The Teaching Practice Plural Realities“, STS Conference ‚Making&Doing‘

Amsterdam, NL

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24-25|04|2024

CONFERENCE CO-ORGANISATION |  „Impact Through Teaching! Architectural Education Within Changing Environments,“ co-organised with Lidia Gasperoni, Andrea Rossi, and Till Zihlmann, TU Berlin

TU Berlin, G

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19-23|09|2023

CONFERENCE PAPER  |  „Post-Anthropozentrische Umweltperspektiven. Die Utopie als Assemblage.“ | ‚Mehr als nur (Über-)Leben‘, DKG Deutscher Kongress für Geographie

Frankfurt, G

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09|2023

PUBLICATION  |  „From Masterplan to Masterplanet: Architectural Worldbuilding.“ | Conference Proceeding: „Utopian Possibilities: Knowledge, Happiness, Wellbeing“, ongoing

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24-27|04|2023

WORKSHOP  |  „Thinkers for Architecture“ – Dialogue 1 – Foucault / Merleau-Ponty / Latour | together with Albena Yaneva, Gordana Fontana-Giusti, and Jonathan Hale

Manchester, UK

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03-05|03|2023

CONFERENCE PAPER  |  „Posthuman Bodies: Architecture in Transformation.“ | Study Circle 8 – Diversity, Transformation, and the Future | Nordic Summer University 

Aarhus, DK

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03-06|2023

PHD SEMINAR  |  „Philosophies in Architecture“ | offered by KTH Stockholm, held by Catharina Gabrielsson 

Stockholm, SE | online

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05-07|10|2022

CONFERENCE PAPER  |  „Can Utopian Thought Go on Without a Body?“ | 2nd International Congress of Philosophy and the City

Faro, PT | online

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12-15|06|2022

CONFERENCE PAPER  |  „Stepping in the Same River Twice – Utopian Worlds in Motion“ | Utopian Studies Conference

Brighton, UK

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10-12|12|2021

CONFERENCE PAPER  |  „From Masterplan to Masterplanet: Architectural Worldbuilding“ | „Utopian Possibilities: Knowledge, Happiness, Wellbeing“ 

Porto, P | online

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17|09|2021

CONFERENCE PAPER  |  „Who are the Architectural Utopians? Illuminating the Authors of Future Environments“ | Future (Im)Perfect Conference | University of Cambridge

Cambridge, UK | online

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07|07|2021

WORKSHOP  |  „Narratives. The Utopian as Design Method.“ | Anthropocene Teaching Practices in Architecture 

fieldstations | TU Berlin | online