urbanes.laurbans

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.

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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.

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Associated initiatives

BWIM, bwim.puls, fluss.land, dazwischen.land, NEBoD, Gastein74, HfG Gmünd

Personal Website

leon.beu@urbanes.land

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Marie-Lise is an architect, researcher and photographer passionate about transformation processes in r/urban areas and the heritage of post-war modernism. She studied in Biberach, Montevideo, Concepción and Bochum and has been part of the urbanes.land team since 2018, where she is responsible for the coordination and documentation of urbanes.land and its projects. Next to her work at urbanes.land, she runs the visual archive thereinbetween, where she explores and archives cities, spaces and places through photography. She has collaborated in teaching activities at the Biberach University and is part of the Ruhrmoderne initiative.

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Associated initiatives

fluss.land, NEBoD, Ruhrmoderne, thereinbetween

Personal Website

marie-lise.hofstetter@urbanes.land

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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.

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Associated initiatives

bwim.puls, NONA, fluss.land, Verband Region Stuttgart, Atlanta After Property Vol. 2

LinkedIn

verena.krappitz@urbanes.land

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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.

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Associated initiatives

bwim.puls, flux.urbains, Officina

Habitat Unit

lorenza.manfredi@urbanes.land

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Ute Margarete Meyer is an urbanist. She is professor at Biberach University of Applied Sciences, has led projects for municipalities, ministries and international institutions and holds Master and Executive degrees from Columbia University and the London School of Economics. Ute has co-founded urbanes.land as an academic institute and non-for profit organisation focusing on perspectives for blue-green territories, semi-urban/rural areas, peripheries and metropolitan fringes. She is a member of institutional boards, political advisor, author and internationally active guest critic.

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Associated initiatives

LSE cities network, flux.urbains, NEBoD, BWIM, fluss.land, NONA

LinkedIn

ute.meyer@urbanes.land

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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.

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Associated initiatives

dazwischen.land

LinkedIn

oskar.schmieg@urbanes.land

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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“.

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Associated initiatives

fluss.land, gruppe dezentral, landscape credibility @LAREG TUM

LAREG Website

michael.schmoelz@urbanes.land

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Martin is program coordinator and researcher at urbanes.land and co-founder of the urbanes.land gGmbH. He studied Architecture and Business Administration in Berlin, Biberach and Tampere and has several years of professional practice in project management of large-scale infrastructure planning. A particular focus of his work is on polycentric spatial structures, cartography, financing approaches for collaborative and co-productive sustainable planning, and processes of critical participation and urban development through action.

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Associated initiatives

bwim.puls, BWIM, dazwischen.land, Campus Zukunft

LinkedIn

martin.spalek@urbanes.land

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