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Thesis

The Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space represents a horizontal institution with a dialogical structure at the Faculty of Architecture and Planning, TU Wien. It is our mission to discover existing potentials in areas such as urban culture and public space.

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Doctoral Thesis

First Supervision

Burcu Ateş

In search of institutional pedagogies: Urban co-production processes as sites of spatial justice. (working title)
Magdalena Augustin

Historical Architecture and Collectivism. Self-managed Building Activities and Counterculture in Techno-Clubs of German-speaking Countries. (working title)
Angelika Gabauer

Ageing, Space and Subjectivity: A Study of Ageing in Vienna. (working title)
Sandrine Klot

Youth & City. Urban spatial practice of adolescents as means for research on development in the context of the post-political city. (working title)
Elina Kränzle

Zones of Insecurity – Nation, Nationalism and the Politics of Public Space. (working title)
Predrag Milić

THE SELF-PROVIDED CITY: On the importance of informal processes for the re-conceptualisation of the idea of public good on the urban periphery. (working title)
Jorge Mosquera Suàrez

Commoning and city governance. New forms of governance of the urban commons and the effects of technologies of power and power relation. (working title)
Maria Reitano

Dissenting urbanities: insurgencies, interdependences, and spaces of the political in Naples (working title)
Laura Sobral

Mobility of urban public policies of co-production and co-governance: a study of the circulation of knowledge in the BIP/ZIP case. (working title)
Tihomir Viderman

Appropriating places of concern: affect and inclusive design praxis. (working title)

Secondary Supervision

Xenia Kopf

The city as performative space. Cultural Praxis in Urban Transitory Spaces. (working title)

Secondary Supervision
Finalised

Maria Virginia Piñero

The landscape according to the blind people. The participation of the other senses in the valuation of the landscape.

Published Master Thesis

Carolina Crijns (2023)
Ulrike Bronner & Clarissa Reikersdorfer (2016)
Johannes Suitner (2010)

Master Thesis

Johanna Aigner

A Grätzel: a signifier of a Viennese microcosm : on the relation between local economic practices and the strategic construction of added meaning.
Elisabeth Arnold

The rationalities of social housing construction in Santiago del Estero, Argentina.
Sarah Bernhard

Große Veränderung im kleinen Garten: eine Einzelfallstudie im Wiener Kleingartenverein Frohsinn über die Auswirkungen von ganzjährigem Wohnen und neuen Eigentumsverhältnissen auf das soziale Zusammenleben.
Ulrike Bronner & Clarissa Reikersdorfer

URBAN NOMADS. Building Shangai: Migrant Workers and the Construction Process.
Natana Char da Silva

Influences from governmentalities on the rights of livelihood
Carolina Crijns

Reconceptualising Utopianism, Crisis, and Architecture: Contested Pursuits of the Good Life in a Society Inherently Marked by Crisis.
Bernadette Dannerer

Privatisierung von öffentlichem Wohnbau in der Gemeinde Botkyrka (Schweden).
Eren Ergin

Social Housing in Turkey and TOKI Settlements.
Rafael Essl

Urban Crisis and Multiple Disruption: The Invisible Workers and Dwellers of Silicon Valley.
Yannick Everad

Inklusion, öffentlicher Raum und Planung – Die ‘Omas gegen Rechts’, eine gerontologisch bedeutsame Gegenöffentlichkeit.
Gunnar Grandel

“We are here for everyone”. Aspirations, tensions, and dilemmas in Vienna’s neighbourhood management.
Bernhard Gugg

Municipal housing policies for newcomers in Greece : a multi-level perspective on Thessalonikis REACT Program.
Martina Soi Gunelas

Αγορές σκουπιδιών | Agoras of waste urban space appropriation in the context of Eleonas’ wastepicker markets.
Joel Aron Herrnstadt

Barcelona en Comú. A new municipalist approach for a more cohesive society and an open public space.
Sophie Höller

Raum fürs Quartier! Eine vergleichende Fallstudie über bauplatzübergreifende Gemeinschaftsräume in ausgewählten Wiener Stadtentwicklungsgebieten
Katrin Hofer

Raumzeitgerechtigkeit für alle? Eine zeitpolitische Analyse aktueller Zielsetzungen in der Wiener Stadtplanung mit dem Fokus auf Alltagsstrukturen und Alltagsräume von Früh- und Spätschichtarbeiterinnen
Kathrin Hopfgartner

A right to public space? Informal trade in the context of urban interventions on the example of Quito, Ecuador.
Katharina Höftberger

Managing Change in Heritage Cities. Evolving Understanding of the Historic Urban Landscape in Khiva, Uzbekistan.
Ileana Ion

Around the block – “În jurul blocului” : The transformation of value in neighbourhood public space in a post-socialist city.
Lena Junger

CONTESTED. PUBLIC. SHARED. Peacelines and Public Space in Belfast.
Michael Kerschbaumer

Die umstrittene Planung öffentlicher Räume. Das Fallbeispiel Kings Cross, London.
Paul Klammer

Austrian planning culture on the example of Villach’s Lederergasse. a Carinthian research story.
Theresa König

Venezuelan forced migrants in Bogotá: Digital platform labor and its implications for everyday urban life.
Felix Leininger

Die Radentscheid-Bewegung in Deutschland – Aushandlung und Umsetzung zwischen Bürger:innenengagement und kommunaler Praxis.
Dominik Linder

Stadtklänge und wie man sie kartiert.
Michael Masching

The play-Element of city-making – a cultural perspective on participation.
Elena Mitrenova

Urban Resilience – Die Macht des Wissens im urbanen Policy-Making Prozess.
Teresa-Elisa Morandini

Konfliktraum Stadt. Der urbane Raum als Schauplatz und Inhalt zivilgesellschaftlicher Aushandlungsprozesse.
Karolina Petz

Activities of informal economy and its spatial dimensions. Inside ‘urbanized villages’ of Shenzhen.
Noah Pfander

Freie Kultur braucht Raum! Eine Fallstudie zu Raumaneignungen der Freien Szene in der Stadt Wien
Nicole Ringer

Between cultural expression and representation of power: street names in Vienna, their influence on the production of public space and their significance for gender issue.
Andrea Stickler

Political equality in communicative planning processes.
Rainhard Süss

Small scale, big scale. Viennese kiosks reflecting socioeconomic transformation processes in the course of 19th and 20th century capitalist development.
Johannes Suitner

local.art – global.image. Zur Rolle der Planung zwischen lokalen, kunstbasierten Aufwertungsprozessen und globaler Stadtimageproduktion.
Vanessa Sodl

RaumplanerInnen bei der Arbeit. Körper, Affekt & Raum.
Alexandra Ullmann

Museumsstadträume. Stadträumliche Verbindungen der Museumsräume als gesellschaftlich relevantes Phänomen der sozialräumlichen Transformation von Museen.
Joscha Viertauer

Architektur als Ausdruck relationaler Strukturen. Eine prozessorientierte Umsetzung im öffentlichen Raum.
Felicitas Wettstein

Zwischen imaginierter, gelebter und baulicher Wirklichkeit. Potenziale öffentlicher Räume in der Peripherie von Paris im Hinblick auf eine gewaltfreie Gemeinschaft.
Julia Wildeis

Common Space ‘Novi Beograd ‘s Local Communities: between Conception and Everyday Life’.
Judith Willnauer

EXKLUSION IM LINZRAUM – Exklusionsmechanismen wohnungsloser Menschen im öffentlichen Raum.
Jörg Wimmer

Produktion inklusiver Konsumräume: die Solidarnutzung sowie weitere Methoden und Instrumente am Beispiel eines Entwicklungsgebiets in Wien-Favoriten.
Markus Zorn

Let’s roll the dice! Exploring games and play as an inclusive design method.

Ongoing Master Thesis

First Supervision:

Christoph Frantes

Stine Janning

Friederike Knörzer

Hannes Schachner

Julia Wörmanseder

Secondary Supervision:

Murat Hancer