Current position

Since 08/2015 Full professor in History and Theory of the City at HafenCity University Hamburg

Previous academic positions

11/2014 – 08/2015: DAAD Postdoc fellow, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexiko City

09/2009 – 08/2014: Research and teaching associate, Department of Architecture, Darmstadt University of Technology

Education

2003 – 2009: PhD in Social and Economic Sciences, Institute of Sociology, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Vienna University of Technology

1993 – 2001: Diploma in Architecture, University of Applied Arts, Vienna

Academic functions

Since 2022: Spokesperson of the DFG-funded Research Training Group "Urban future-making: Professional agency across time and scale"

Since 2022: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Leibniz Institute for Spatial Social Research (IRS)

Since 2022: Member of the Sounding Board of the Research Center for New Social Housing, TU Vienna

Since 2015: Liaison professor Hans-Böckler-Foundation

07/2013 – 07/2014: Member of Board of Spokespersons of the Urban Research Area, Darmstadt University of Technology

10/2012 – 07/2014: Directory Board, International Master of Science program Mundus Urbano: International Cooperation and Urban Development, Darmstadt University of Technology

Reviewer activities

Scientific institutions: ACQUIN | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation | Austrian Academy of Science (DOC Program) | DAAD (PRIME Program) | European Research Council (ERC) | Hans-Böckler-Foundation | German Research Foundation (DFG) | Polish National Science Centre (NCN) | Swiss National Science Foundation | TU Berlin (IPODI Program)

Journals: Antipode | Architectural Theory Review | City | City, Culture and Society | Dimensions: Journal of Architectural Knowledge | Disability and Rehabilitation | Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization | Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space | Eurasian Geography and Economics | European Planning Studies | Footprint | Futures | GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society | Globalizations | International Journal of Housing Policy | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research | Journal of Architectural Education | Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability | Journal of Urban Affairs | Journal of Urban Design | Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft | Scottish Geographical Journal | Spatial Research and Planning | sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | Urban Geography | Urban Planning | Urban Research and Practice | Urban Studies | Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie

Membership

Gesellschaft für Stadtgeschichte und Urbanisierungsforschung, Germany, since 2015

Research Committee 21 on the Sociology of Urban and Regional Development
(RC 21) in the International Sociological Association (ISA), since 2006

Architectural Sociology Working Group of the German Sociological Association, since 2006

Monographs

Grubbauer, M. (2011). Die vorgestellte Stadt. Globale Büroarchitektur, Stadtmarketing und politischer Wandel in Wien. Bielefeld, Transcript.

Edited volumes

Grubbauer, M., A. Manganelli and L. Volont (Eds.) (2024). Conflicts in Urban Future-Making: Governance, Institutions, and Transformative Change. Bielefeld, transcript.

Grubbauer, M. and J. Metzger (Eds.) (2023). Wohnen in Hamburg: Akteure, Instrumente und Konfliktfelder. Bielefeld, transcript.

Grubbauer, M. and K. Shaw (Eds.) (2018). Across Theory and Practice: Thinking through Urban Research. Berlin, Jovis.

Grubbauer, M. and J. Kusiak (Eds.) (2012). Chasing Warsaw. Socio-Material Dynamics of Urban Change since 1990. Frankfurt, Campus.

Special issues in peer-reviewed journals

Grubbauer, M. and P. Mader (Eds.). Housing Microfinance and Housing Financialisation in a Global Perspective, International Journal of Housing Policy, 21 (4), 2021.

Göbel, H. K., M. Grubbauer and A. Richter (Eds.). Designed to improve? The makings, politics and aesthetics of “social” architecture and design, City 21 (6), 2017.

Faulconbridge, J. and M. Grubbauer (Eds.). Transnational Building Practices: Actors, Trajectories and Modes of Knowledge Mobility, Global Networks 15 (3), 2015.

Grubbauer, M. and S. Steets (Eds.). The Making of Architects: Knowledge Production and Legitimation in Education, Professional Practice and International Networks, Architectural Theory Review 19 (1), 2014.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Grubbauer, M. and K. Manderscheid (2023). Im Spannungsfeld von Betrieb und Wohnen: sozial-ökologische Herausforderungen ortsflexibler Arbeit. WSI Mitteilungen 1/2023, 55–61.

Ruge, J., V. Dimitrova, M. Grubbauer and A. Bögle (2022). Models, mock-ups and materials: artefacts of collaboration in the planning of large-scale construction projects, Building Research & Information, 50 (8), 881–893, DOI: 10.1080/09613218.2022.2070451

Dimitrova, V. and M. Grubbauer (2022). The icon as a collaborative performance: non-standard solutions, invisible work and networks of trust in the construction of the Elbe Philharmonic Hall, Hamburg, Archnet-IJAR, 16 (2), 434–450. https://doi.org/10.1108/ARCH-03-2021-0058

Grubbauer, M. and V. Dimitrova (2022). Exceptional architecture, learning processes, and the contradictory performativity of norms and standards, European Planning Studies, 30 (1), 121–140, DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2021.1928609

Grubbauer, M. and L. Escobar (2021). World Bank experiments in housing: microfinance for self-organised housing in Mexico in the era of financial inclusion, International Journal of Housing Policy, 21 (4): 534–558, DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1898897

Escobar, L. and M. Grubbauer (2021). Housing microfinance, saving and credit cooperatives, and community development in low-income settings in Mexico. Community Development Journal 56 (1): 141–160.

Grubbauer, M. (2020). Assisted self-help housing in Mexico: advocacy, (micro)finance and the making of markets. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 44 (6): 947–966.

Hilbrandt, H. and M. Grubbauer (2020). Standards and SSOs in the contested widening and deepening of financial markets: The arrival of Green Municipal Bonds in Mexico City. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 52 (7): 1415–1433.

Grubbauer, M. and H. Hilbrandt (2020). Städte des Globalen Südens im Fokus von Klima- und Entwicklungsfinanz: Reregulierung, Disziplinierung und Depolitisierung. sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung 8 (1/2): 137–162.

Coman, R., M. Grubbauer and J. König (2019). Labour migration as a temporal practice in peripheral cities: the case of Comănești, Romania. City 23 (4-5): 619–630.

Grubbauer, M. (2019). Postcolonial urbanism across disciplinary boundaries: Modes of (dis)engagement between urban theory and professional practice. The Journal of Architecture 24 (4): 469–486.

Grubbauer, M. (2019). Housing microfinance and the financialization of housing in Latin America and beyond: an agenda for future research. International Journal of Housing Policy 19 (3): 436–447.

Grubbauer, M. and Camprag, N. (2018). Urban megaprojects, nation-state politics and regulatory capitalism in Central and Eastern Europe: the Belgrade Waterfront project. Urban Studies. 56 (4): 649–671.

Grubbauer, M. (2017). Shifting national housing policy priorities, commercialization of housing microfinance and marketization in the construction sector: the current state of self-help housing in Mexico. Trialog (4/2015), September 2017: 13–19.

Grubbauer, M. (2017). In search of authenticity: Architectures of social engagement, modes of public recognition and the fetish of the vernacular. City 21 (6): 789–799.

Grubbauer, M. (2015). Circulating knowledge, marketization and norm-making: international developers and construction firms in Eastern Europe since 2000. Global Networks 15 (3): 288–306.

Grubbauer, M. (2015). Not everything is new in DIY: Home remodelling by amateurs as urban practice. Ephemera: theory & politics in organization 15 (1): 141–162.

Grubbauer, M. and S. Steets (2014). Editorial: The Making of Architects: Knowledge Production and Legitimation in Education and Professional Practice. Architectural Theory Review 19 (1): 4–9.

Grubbauer, M. (2014). Architecture, economic imaginaries and urban politics: the office tower as socially classifying device. International Journal for Urban and Regional Research 38 (1): 336–59.

Grubbauer, M. (2013). Mainstreaming urban interventionist practices: the case of the BMW Guggenheim Lab in Berlin. Footprint. TU Delft Architecture Theory Journal. Autumn 2013: 123–130.

Grubbauer, M. (2004). Über den Bereich des (Un)möglichen. Zur Zukunft architektonischer Praxis. UMBAU 21, 81–92.

Articles in non-peer reviewed journals, introductions and commentaries

Grubbauer, M., A. Manganelli and L. Volont (2024). Introduction to the volume. In: M. Grubbauer, A. Manganelli and L. Volont (Eds.). Conflicts in Urban Future-Making: Governance, Institutions, and Transformative Change. Bielefeld: transcript, 23–46.

Grubbauer, M. and J. Metzger (2023). Einleitung: Wohnungsfrage und Wohnungsforschung. Was lässt sich am Beispiel Hamburg lernen? In: M. Grubbauer and J. Metzger (Eds.). Wohnen in Hamburg: Akteure, Instrumente und Konfliktfelder. Bielefeld: transcript, 13–29.

Grubbauer, M. (2022). Mehr als ein Dach über dem Kopf? Wohnen – ein existenzielles Bedürfnis im Wandel der Zeit. In: Spurensuchen. Magazin für historisch-politische Bildung, 36. Jg., S. 15–18 (Magazin zum Geschichtswettbewerb des Bundespräsidenten).

Grubbauer, M. and P. Mader (2021). Housing microfinance and housing financialisation in a global perspective, International Journal of Housing Policy 21 (4): 465–483, DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2021.1922165

Grubbauer, M. (2019). Forschungsorientierte Lehre. StadtBauwelt 221 (6/2019): 53–54.

Richter, A., H. Göbel and M. Grubbauer (2017). Introduction: Designed to Improve? The makings, politics and aesthetics of ‘social’ architecture and design. City 21 (6): 769–778.

Grubbauer, M. (2017). Perspektiven einer Politisierung von Planungsprozessen jenseits lokaler Mobilisierungen. sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung 5 (1/2): 137–146.

Faulconbridge, J. and M. Grubbauer (2015). Transnational building practices: knowledge mobility and the inescapable market. Global Networks 15 (3): 275–287.

Grubbauer, M. (2012). Architektur und Stadt: Anmerkungen aus politisch-ökonomischer Perspektive. Geographische Revue 14 (1): 58–73.

Grubbauer, M. (2010). Was ist nutzungsoffene Architektur? Möglichkeiten und Grenzen. Generalist. Magazin für Architektur Nr. 3: 55–59.

Grubbauer, M. (2009). Wien und der Konflikt eines baulichen Wandels. Wie Hochhäuser ein neues Stadtbild konstruieren sollen. Geographische Rundschau 7-8: 28–34.

Grubbauer, M. (2008). Interpretation von Architektur: fotografische Bilder von Architektur und die visuelle Vermitteltheit architektonischen Wissens? Wolkenkuckucksheim. Internationale Zeitschrift für Theorie und Wissenschaft der Architektur 12 (2), (online).

Book chapters

Grubbauer, M., L. Volont and A. Manganelli (2024). Understanding conflicts in urban future-making: Arenas, negotiation, and affect. In: M. Grubbauer, A. Manganelli and L. Volont (Eds.). Conflicts in Urban Future-Making: Governance, Institutions, and Transformative Change. Bielefeld, transcript, 23–46.

Grubbauer, M., K. Manderscheid and J. Thiel (2024). Understanding professional agency in urban future-making: Acting in the face of uncertainty. In: M. Grubbauer, A. Manganelli and L. Volont (Eds.). Conflicts in Urban Future-Making: Governance, Institutions, and Transformative Change. Bielefeld, transcript, 47–74.

Grubbauer, M. (2023). Herausforderungen und Perspektiven in der Wohnungsforschung. In: M. Grubbauer and J. Metzger (Eds.). Wohnen in Hamburg: Akteure, Instrumente und Konfliktfelder. Bielefeld, transcript, 47–65.

Grubbauer, M., M. Helmrich, C. Niewerth and K. Manderscheid (2023). Konsequenzen ortsflexibler Arbeit für Praxen des Wohnens und der Alltagsorganisation in Hamburg. In: M. Grubbauer and J. Metzger (Eds.). Wohnen in Hamburg: Akteure, Instrumente und Konfliktfelder. Bielefeld, transcript, 143–162.

Grubbauer, M. and H. Hilbrandt (2023). Shifts and hurdles in the urbanization of development finance: The case of the World Bank’s city creditworthiness initiative. In: È. Chiapello, A. Engels and E. Gresse (Eds). Financializations of Development. Global Games and Local Experiments. London, Routledge.

Grubbauer, M. (2021). Situating the Research Project at the Intersection of Multi-Disciplinary Debates. In: J. Thiel, V. Dimitrova and J. Ruge (Eds.). Constructing Innovation: How Large-Scale Projects Drive Novelty in the Construction Industry. Berlin, Jovis, 22–27.

Dimitrova, V., M. Grubbauer, J. Ruge and A. Bögle (2021). Large-Scale Projects as Arenas for Interaction: Negotiating Professional Cultures of Architects and Engineers. In: J. Thiel, V. Dimitrova and J. Ruge (Eds.). Constructing Innovation: How Large-Scale Projects Drive Novelty in the Construction Industry. Berlin, Jovis, 176–193.

Dreher, J., J. Thiel, G. Grabher and M. Grubbauer (2021). Mobile Interaction, Sticky Products: Geographies of Innovation in Large-Scale Construction Projects. In: J. Thiel, V. Dimitrova and J. Ruge (Eds.). Constructing Innovation: How Large-Scale Projects Drive Novelty in the Construction Industry. Berlin, Jovis, 86–104.

Grubbauer, M. (2021). Erbe und städtische Zukünfte im Zeitalter des Climate Urbanism. In: J. Blokker, Carmen M. Enss and S. Herold (Eds). Politiken des Erbens in urbanen Räumen. Bielefeld, Transcript, 207–220.

Grubbauer, M. (2018). Hochhäuser in Wien. Bilder von Architektur, Stadtmarketing und lokale Politik. In: S. Rollig and M. Fellinger (Eds.). Der Canalettoblick. Wien, Belvedere, 117–125.

Grubbauer, M. (2018). Building home futures: Materialities of construction and meanings of home in informal building practices. In: D. Sage and C. Vitry (Eds.). Societies under Construction. Geographies, Sociologies and Histories of Building. Basingstoke, Palgrave, 185–204.

Grubbauer, M. (2017). Urban Research Today: Modes of Dialogue and Disengagement between Theory and Practice. In: W. Pelka and F. Kasting (Eds.). Science and the City: Hamburg’s Path into an Academic Built Environment Education. Berlin, Jovis, 57–68.

Grubbauer, M. (2017). Stadtentwicklung von unten –  Möglichkeiten, Grenzen, kritische Perspektiven. In: K. Novy and A. Strickner (Eds.). Gutes Leben für alle erfordert eine andere Globalisierung. Herausforderungen und Gestaltungsräume für Städte und Regionen. Werkstattbericht, MA 18 – Stadtentwicklung und Stadtplanung, Wien, 72–75.

Grubbauer, M. (2017). Ananya Roy: Slumdog Cities: Rethinking Subaltern Urbanism. In: F. Eckardt (Ed.). Schlüsselwerke der Stadtforschung. Berlin, Springer, 279–300.

Grubbauer, M. (2016). The nadogradnje as a mode of urbanism. In: S. Quadflieg and G. Theune (Eds.). Nadogradnje. Urban Self-Regulation in Post-Yugoslav Cities. Weimar, m-books, 93–109.

Grubbauer, M. (2014). Gebrauchsfotografien von Architektur und Stadt und die Bewertung des urbanen Raumes: Stadtmarketing, Bildagenturen und Intermediäre. In: I. H. Warnke and B. Busse (Eds.). Place-Making in urbanen Diskursen. Berlin, De Gruyter.

Grubbauer, M. (2013). A városi változás átfogóbb fogalma felé: A posztszocialista urbanizáciá és a városelmélet osszekapcsolása. In: Jelinek C., Bodnár J., Czirfusz M. und Gyimesi Z. (Eds.). Kritikai Városkutatás [Kritische Stadtforschung]. Budapest, L'Harmattan,  480-504 (Hungarian Translation of book chapter in Grubbauer/Kusiak 2012).

Grubbauer, M. (2013). ‘Global‘ Architecture as a Contradictory Signifier: Lessons from Hamburg’s and Vienna’s Urban Megaprojects. In: G. del Cerro (Ed.). Urban Megaprojects: a worldwide view. Bradford, Emerald, 185–210.

Grubbauer, M. (2012). Toward a More Comprehensive Notion of Urban Change: Linking Post-Socialist Urbanism and Urban Theory. In: M. Grubbauer and J. Kusiak (Eds.). Chasing Warsaw. Socio-Material Dynamics of Urban Change since 1990. Frankfurt, Campus, 35–60.

Grubbauer, M. (2011). Globale Architektur und ihre Rolle im Städtewettbewerb. In: C. Parnreiter (Ed.). Stadt und Globalisierung. Hamburger Symposium Geographie Nr. 3, Institut für Geographie der Universität Hamburg, 46–65.

Grubbauer, M. (2011). Räume der Wirtschaft: Das Bürohochhaus als Bedeutungsträger in der visuellen Konstruktion ökonomischer Vorstellungswelten. In: W. Hofmann (Ed.). Stadt als Erfahrungsraum der Politik. Beiträge zur kulturellen Konstruktion urbaner Politik. Berlin, LIT Verlag, 97–116.

Grubbauer, M. (2010). The high-rise office tower as a global type: exploring the architectural world of Getty Images. In: M. Guggenheim and O. Soderström (Eds.). Re-Shaping Cities: How Global Mobility Transforms Architecture and Urban Form. London, Routledge, 63–80.

Grubbauer, M. (2008). Images of office architecture in the media – the paradigm of urban competitivness and global interconnectivity. In: F. Eckardt (Ed.): Media and Urban Space. Understanding, Investigating and Approaching Mediacity. Berlin, Frank & Timme, 105–132.

Grubbauer, M. (2006). Architektur und Standortwettbewerb. Bürobauten als Imageträger. In: Kritische Geografie und Attac Österreich (Eds.). Zwischen Konkurrenz und Kooperation – Alternativen zum Standortwettbewerb. Wien, Mandelbaum, 120–141.

Reviews

Review of: Löw, M.; Sayman, V.; Schwerer, J. and Wolf, H. (Eds.). Am Ende der Globalisierung: Über die Refiguration von Räumen. Bielefeld. transcript Verlag 2021. In: Soziopolis: Gesellschaft beobachten

Review of : Schmidt-Lauber, B.; Othengrafen, F.; Pohlan, J. and Wehrhahn, R. (Eds.). Wohnungsfragen ohne Ende?! Ressourcen für eine soziale Wohnraumversorgung. Spinger, S. 2022. In: Jahrbuch StadtRegion 2021/2022, Stadt-Land-Relationen. Disziplinäre Spurensuchen.

Review of: Bunnell, T. and D. P.S. Goh (Eds.). Urban Asias: Essays on Futurity Past and Present. Berlin, Jovis 2018. In: International journal for Urban and Regional Research 43.3, 615–616.

Review of: Darieva, T., W. Kaschuba and M. Krebs (Eds.). Urban Spaces After Socialism. Frankfurt/Main, Campus Verlag 2011, and Hirt, S. A.: Iron Curtains. Gates, Suburbs and Privatization of Space in the Post-Socialist City. London, Wiley-Blackwell 2012. In: International Journal for Urban and Regional Research 37.4., 1486–90.

Review of: Ponzini, D. and M. Nastasi: Starchitecture. Scenes, Actors and Spectacles in Contemporary Cities. Torino, Allemandi & C 2012. In: Urban Research & Practice 5.3, 371–372.

Review of: Lampugnani, V. M.: Die Stadt im 20. Jahrhundert. Visionen, Entwürfe, Gebautes. Berlin 2010, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 08.04.2011, hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2011-2-026.

Organized workshops and panels

'Urban future-making: Raum-zeitliche Widersprüche in der Aushandlung städtischer Zukünfte'. Deutscher Kongress für Geographie, with Katharina Manderscheid and Lucas Pohl, Frankfurt, 19-23 September 2023

'Disentangling global action agendas and urban development strategies: "Truth regimes" of development, private financial interest, and urban sustainable growth', stream at the RC21 Annual Conference 'In and Beyond the City: Emerging Ontologies, Persistent Challenges and Hopeful Futures', with Hanna Hilbrandt, Delhi, 18-21 September 2019 

'Critical Perspectives on Housing Microfinane', international workshop organized at HCU as part of the three-year research project funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG), Hamburg, 29-30 November 2018

'Urban Research across the Theory-Practice Divide: Modes of Dialogue and/or Disengagement', international workshop held at HCU, with Kate Shaw (Melbourne University), Hamburg, 21-22 September 2017

'Housing in the era of neoliberalism between adaption and transgression', stream at the RC21 Annual Conference 'The transgressive city', with Clara Salazar (Colegio de México), Mexico City, July 2016

International workshop of the architectural sociology working group (AG Architektursoziologie) 'Designed to improve? Buildings, interventions and the makings of the "social" in interdisciplinary urban practices', with Hanna Göbel (University Hamburg) and Anna Richter (HCU Hamburg), Hamburg, 22-24 May 2014

'Urbanism beyond the West: Comparing Accelerated Urban Change in Eastern Europe and the Global South', stream at the annual conference of the RC21, Sociology of Urban and Regional Development in the International Sociological Association, with Joanna Kusiak, Berlin, 29-31 August 2013

'The Transnational Dimension of Contemporary Urban Development: Ideas, Trajectories, and Actors', stream at the annual conference of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), New York City, 24-28 February 2012

International workshop of the architectural sociology working group (AG Architektursoziologie),'The Making of Architects / Architecture in the Making', with Silke Steets, TU Darmstadt, 2-3 February 2012

LOEWE-Workshop 'Warsaw since 1990. Post-Socialist Transformation as a Challenge for the Intrinsic Logic of Cities', with Joanna Kusiak, TU Darmstadt, 19-20 May 2011

 

Publications

Buttmann, V. (2017): The clash of rural-urban migrants and real estate investors on Phnom Penh's
housing market: Prospects for garment workers. Working Paper 91, Institute for International
Political Economy, Berlin.

Buttmann, V. (2017): Feministische Stadtkritik braucht heute globale Perspektiven ‒ dies zeigen die
Wohnverhältnisse kambodschanischer Textilarbeiterinnen. In: Feministische Geo-RundMail, Themenheft
Aktuelle feministische Perspektiven auf die Stadt 72: 17-19.

Alexeew, J.; Anders, C.; Buttmann, V.; Henzler, M.; Ratjen, G. (adelphi) (2015): Overview Study:
Promotional Schemes for Demand-Side Energy Efficiency. Indo-German Energy Forum (IGEF), New
Delhi.

Rommel, J., Buttmann, V., Liebig, G., Schönwetter, S., Svart-Gröger, V. (2015): Motivation crowding theory
and pro-environmental behavior: Experimental evidence. In: Economics Letters 129: 42-
44.

Buttmann, V., Voigt, P. (2014): Ernährungssouveränität ‒ Der Weltagrarbericht 2008 in der Stadt. AV
Akademikerverlag, Saarbrücken.

Current position

Since 10/2026: Research Assistant, History and Theory of the City, HafenCity University Hamburg

Previous positions

06/2025 – 12/2025: Research Assistant, Altonaer Museum, Hamburg

06/2023 – 06/2025: Research Trainee, Altonaer Museum, Hamburg

07/2022 – 01/2023: Social and migration counselling, Erziehungshilfe e.V., Hamburg

06/2020 – 05/2021: Curatorial assistant, Museum am Rothenbaum – MARKK, Hamburg

04/2016 – 04/2020: Tutor and student assistant, Institute of Ethnology, University of Hamburg

Education

2017 – 2022: Master of Arts in Ethnology, University of Hamburg

08/2019 – 01/2020: Fieldwork stay in Athens

2014 – 2018: Bachelor of Arts in Ethnology, University of Hamburg, minor in Psychology

2013 – 2014: Bachelor of Science in Psychology, University of Hamburg

Miller, L. (2026). The Pleasure Ground in Jenischpark: Ambivalent Gardens between Botanical Passion and Economic Power. In H.-J. Czech, A. Dauschek & N. Tiedemann (eds.), Parkomania. Untold Stories from Jenischpark (pp. 82–97). Hamburg: Dölling & Galitz.

Miller, L. (2026). The Orchid Collection of Martin Johan Jenisch: A Senator in Orchidelirium. In H.-J. Czech, A. Dauschek & N. Tiedemann (eds.), Parkomania. Untold Stories from Jenischpark (pp. 98–107). Hamburg: Dölling & Galitz.

Rebecca Dedeck is a student assistant since july 2023 at the department of History and Theory of the City. She studies urban planing in bachelor at HafenCity University. 

Katharina Kudravzev is a student assistant since june 2023 at the department of History and Theory of the City. She studies urban planing in bachelor at HafenCity University. 

Anton Brendel is a student assistant since april 2025 at the department of History and Theory of the City. He studies urban planing in bachelor at HafenCity University. 

Anastasija Lösslein is a student assistant since april 2025 at the department of History and Theory of the City. She studies urban planing in bachelor at HafenCity University. 

Lennart Prill is a student assistant since april 2026 at the department of History and Theory of the City. He studies urban planing in master at HafenCity University. 

Fabian Namberger war von 2023 bis 2026 als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Postdoc) am Arbeitsgebiet Theorie und Geschichte der Stadt tätig.

Neben der interdisziplinären Lehre in Bachelor- und Masterstudiengängen forschte er im Rahmen des DFG Graduiertenkollegs 2725 "Urban future-making: Professional agency across time and scale" zu globalen Infrastrukturen menschlicher Datenarbeit innerhalb neuer KI-Wertschöpfungsketten, insbesondere mit Blick auf autonomes Fahren.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8766-586X

Charlotte Niewerth war von 2015 bis bis 2024 als Projektmitarbeiterin in dem von der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung geförderten Forschungsprojekt "Raum-zeitliche Dimensionen ortsflexibler Arbeit: Soziale und ökologische Potenziale und Risiken im Spannungsfeld von Betrieb und Wohnen" tätig.

Venetsiya Dimitrova worked from 2017 to 2022 as a project collaborator in the interdisciplinary joint research project "Large-scale projects as drivers of innovation in the construction industry", which was funded by the state research funding programme. In her dissertation, she researched the working practices of mid-level project architects working in renowned architectural firms. In 2022/2023 she was a Pro Exzellenzia scholarship holder.

Luisa Escobar worked from 2018 to 2021 as a project member in the DFG-funded project "Microcredit in informal self-employment in Mexico". From 2022-2023, she was a FHH-Scholarship Holder.

Lucas Pohl was a research assistant at the Department of History and Theory of the City from 2022 to 2023 and a member of the DFG-funded research training group "Urban future-making". He currently works at the Institute of Geography at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Alessandra Manganelli is a philosopher and urban planner with a doctorate in planning. From 2019 to 2022, she was a project collaborator in the interdisciplinary joint research project "Large-scale projects as drivers of innovation in the construction industry" and has been a postdoctoral researcher in the DFG-funded research training group "Urban future-making" since 2022.

Hanna Hilbrandt worked from 2017 to 2020 as a research assistant at the Department of History and Theory of the City. At the HCU, she is working on the research project "Global markets / local shifts: Urban restructuring through municipal debt in Mexico City and Johannesburg" as a DAAD P.R.I.M.E fellow. Since March 2020, she has been Professor of Social and Cultural Geography at the Department of Geography at the University of Zurich.

Nina Fraeser worked from 2015 to 2020 as a research assistant at the Department of History and Theory of the City. Since June 2020, she has been part of the DFG research group "Recht-Geschlecht-Kollektivität" at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's* and Gender Studies at the TU Berlin and works in the sub-project "Die Neuerfindung des Kollektiven" on Urban & Housing Commons.