urbanes.laurbans
urbanes.land.
urbanes.land.
Liveable cities and healthy regions in a post-fossil future need other spatial and social practices.
urbanes land provides adaptive planning processes that build on existing potentials and offer a change of perspective in hardened debates.
The team fuses experience and methods from various fields and disciplines: urbanism, regional planning, landscape architecture, social research and design. We strongly belief in co-productive action and cooperation at eye level. What unites us is the need to reimagine spatial planning.
TEAM
LEON
BEU
Schwäbisch Gmünd
Design
B.A. Communication Design
Leon is a visual designer and photographer, responsible for the visual communication of urbanes.land. After studying media technology at the TH Deggendorf and communication design at the HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd, he works with and for culture and research. The topic of structural vacancy in Central Europe as well as his interest for brutalist architecture runs through his work. Since 2020, he has been working on a reappraisal of the „Planning New Gastein“ project, in which architecture, graphics and design came together in a rarely seen symbiosis in 1972. He lectures at the HfG Gmünd.
Associated initiatives
BWIM, bwim.puls, fluss.land, dazwischen.land, NEBoD, Gastein74, HfG Gmünd
Personal Website
leon.beu@urbanes.land
MARIE-LISE
HOFSTETTER
Allgäu, Essen & on the road
Project Coordination
&
Photography
B.A. Architecture
M.Sc. Architecture Media Management
Associated initiatives
fluss.land, NEBoD, Ruhrmoderne, thereinbetween
Personal Website
marie-lise.hofstetter@urbanes.land
VERENA
KRAPPITZ
Stuttgart
Research & Mapping
B.A. Architecture
M.A. Architecture
M.Sc. Urban Design
Verena is an urban designer committed to unfold just and resilient urban narratives and translating them into socio-spatial processes. She holds a Master's degree in Urban Design from Columbia GSAPP and a Master of Architecture from the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. Her research interests lie in land care practices and equitable approaches to urban climate mitigation and governance models. Verena specializes in GIS-based counter cartography, digital imaging, and research design for inclusive and livable habitats.
Associated initiatives
bwim.puls, NONA, fluss.land, Verband Region Stuttgart, Atlanta After Property Vol. 2
LinkedIn
verena.krappitz@urbanes.land
LORENZA
MANFREDI
Berlin
Research
Architect
PhD in Urbanism
Lorenza is an architect and researcher with a focus on cooperative city-making practices and transformation dynamics of contemporary European cities. She holds a degree in architecture from Milan Polytechnic and a PhD in urban planning from IUAV University of Venice and TU Berlin. She has collaborated on teaching activities at the Polytechnic University of Turin, TU Berlin, IUAV Venice, and Hochschule Biberach, and has led spatial design workshops with the Stellepolari and Simerilab collectives in Italy, Spain, and Lebanon. She has published articles and book chapters for Springer, Jovis and others. In Berlin she initiated and managed the project space Officina Neukölln.
Associated initiatives
bwim.puls, flux.urbains, Officina
Habitat Unit
lorenza.manfredi@urbanes.land
UTE
MEYER
Stuttgart
Founder Urbanist &
Scientific Lead
Urban Designer and Architect
LSE Executive Master in Cities
MSAAD
Associated initiatives
LSE cities network, flux.urbains, NEBoD, BWIM, fluss.land, NONA
LinkedIn
ute.meyer@urbanes.land
OSKAR
SCHMIEG
Berlin
Research
B.A. Urban & Regional Planning
M.A. Architecture
Oskar studied urban and regional planning at the TU Berlin and is now enrolled in the masters program urban futures at FH Potsdam, always trying to further develop an amalgam of classical urban planning and a sociological systemic sense of space. Oskars work revolves around questions regarding desirable futures and how they become performative. The application of the techniques of futuring functions as a case study as well as a research project for his masters program. Being raised in southern Germany Oskar has an affective knowledge about Oberschwaben and its urban-rural fabric.
Associated initiatives
dazwischen.land
LinkedIn
oskar.schmieg@urbanes.land
MICHAEL
SCHMÖLZ
Munich
Research
B.Sc Landscape Architecture & Planning
M.Sc. Landscape Architecture & Urban Design (BYAK)
Michl is a researcher at urbanes.land. He designs and researches socio-spatial phenomena of our everyday landscapes. Michl studied landscape architecture and urbanism, worked in various landscape architecture and urban planning offices and as a research assistant at TUM LAREG. He is a founding member of gruppe dezentral, a doctoral candidate and lecturer at TUM and works as a regional planner. In his current dissertation on a right to landscape - on the use of space in (peri)alpine, urban landscapes, he examines the mutual interdependence of concrete spatial structures and their social use as promises for a "right to landscape“.
Associated initiatives
fluss.land, gruppe dezentral, landscape credibility @LAREG TUM
LAREG Website
michael.schmoelz@urbanes.land
MARTIN
SPALEK
Berlin & Zurich
Founder &
Research
B.A. Architecture
B.Sc. Business Administrations and Engineering
Associated initiatives
bwim.puls, BWIM, dazwischen.land, Campus Zukunft
LinkedIn
martin.spalek@urbanes.land
FORMER TEAM MEMBERS
Julia Bauer, Lukas Bodelschwingh, Rebecca Diehl, Rebecca Fischer,
Sarah Frey, Lena Heisel, Franka Höger, Nicole Ottmann, Robin Schmid,
Rebecca Sondermann, Anna Stegmiller, Hannah Tesch
Sarah Frey, Lena Heisel, Franka Höger, Nicole Ottmann, Robin Schmid,
Rebecca Sondermann, Anna Stegmiller, Hannah Tesch
CONTACT
If you are interested in working with us,
or want to know more about our projects,
we're happy to hear from you!
urbanes.land IAS
Institute for Architecture and Urban Development
Hochschule Biberach
Karlstraße 11
88400 Biberach
Institute for Architecture and Urban Development
Hochschule Biberach
Karlstraße 11
88400 Biberach
urbanes.land gGmbH
c/o Impact Hub Stuttgart
Quellenstraße 7a
70376 Stuttgart
c/o Impact Hub Stuttgart
Quellenstraße 7a
70376 Stuttgart