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“Organizing Architectures” is an interdisciplinary DFG-funded research training group that, together with several universities and research institutions in Hesse, aims to promote innovative qualification work by excellent young researchers. This highly interdisciplinary and international study and research program enables multi-perspective work that addresses the tension between architectural production and social processes. How do built or planned structures shape (public) spaces and social dynamics? How do social processes and discourses materialize in architecture? And how does this then impact society?

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  • an diesem Ort war ich noch nie – Political Landscapes of Rest

    Lecture
    Solastalgie. Walks through living landscapes. Perspectives from three positions

    8. January 2026Friederike Weidner

    Lecture by Fanti Baum, 28 January 2026, 6 p.m., at Museum Giersch der Goethe-Universität

  • (Zionist) Coloniality Under (British) Colonialism

    The Architectural and Warfare Modernism of Yohanan (Eugene) Ratner in Mandatory Palestine

    Lecture Series

    27. October 2025Friederike Weidner

    Lecture by Prof. Dr. Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, 4 February 2026, 7 - 8:30 p.m., at Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM)

  • Ruochen Zheng

    Associates
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  • Demolition and Protest in Frankfurt’s Westend

    The Role of Monument Preservation in the 1970s Discourse on the Urban Development of the Gründerzeit District

    PhD Projects
    "Black flag demonstration" by the Westend Association against real estate speculation and house demolition in the Westend, August 1970: People with black flags in front of a covered house.

  • The Artisan Prisoner

    Circulation and Immobility of an Administrative Figure

    Congress Session
    Session at the III Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes Congress, hosted be Dhara Patel, 11-13 February 2026, Lisbon

    9. December 2025Friederike Weidner

    Talk at III Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes Congress by Dorothea Douglas, 11-13 February 2026, Lisbon

  • Rev. Kudawawe Somananda Thero

    PhD Candidates
    Somananda Thero, Photo: Uwe Dettmar

  • Political Resonances of Spatial Configuration

    PhD Projects
    Spatial configuration shapes co-presence in Berlin's public spaces.

  • Dr. Dhara Patel

    Associates
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  • Martina Wollweber 

    Administration
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  • Call for Contributions

    Visualising Health Equity for Urban Planning

    Open Call

    22. October 2025Friederike Weidner

    A "Cities & Health" special issue, led by guest editor Prof. Dr. Martin Knöll (Technical University of Darmstadt), calls for innovative contributions.

  • Prof. Dr. Alla Vronskaya

    Principal Investigators
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  • Segregation by Design

    Private Landlords, Racial Capitalism, and the Architecture of Migrant Housing in Frankfurt

    Congress Session
    Session at the III Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes Congress, hosted be Dhara Patel, 11-13 February 2026, Lisbon

    10. July 2025Friederike Weidner

    Talk at III Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes Congress by Dhara Patel, 11-13 February 2026, Lisbon

  • Proceeding Through Steps

    The Stairways of Lower Courts as Novel Site of Interaction

    PhD Projects
    Main staircase of the district court building in Berlin Mitte

  • Prof. Dr. Rembert Hüser 

    Principal Investigators

  • Legal entanglements of labor and architecture in Africa

    Congress Session

    28. May 2025Friederike Weidner

    Session at the III Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes Congress, hosted by Manuela Camargo & Raquel Sirotti, 11-13 February 2026, Lisbon

  • Spaces of Appearance

    Aesthetics and Politics After Analogy

    publication
    Cover of "Spaces of Appearance. Aesthetics and Politics After Analogy".

  • Dr. Sebastian Linsin

    Postdocs
    Portrait of Sebastian Linsin

  • In Search of the Lost Image

    (Post-)Soviet Metageography between Critical Postmodern Humanism and Neoliberal Spatial Development (1960s–2020s)

    PhD Projects
    Boris Rodoman, “Polarized Biosphere,” 30.3.1973. Paper, mixed media, 132 × 168 cm. © Boris Rodoman

  • Dr. Christian Rosen 

    Postdocs
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  • Architectures of the Archive

    Reorganizing Memory and Hertiage

    Lecture Series
    Future Systems: Project 124 “Peanut,” 1984 – model of the project

    28. October 2025Kristin Otte

    Event with Prof. Dr. Sung Hong Kim, Setareh Noorani and Evelyn Steiner, 11 February 2026, 7 - 8:30 p.m., at Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM)

  • Structural Instability:

    Activism, R. Buckminster Fuller, and the “Urban Crisis”

    Postdoc Projects
    R. Buckminster Fuller at the first presentation of Black Man River City in 1971

  • (Re-)Making Sense of Socio-Ecological Transformations

    New and Old Inequalities in the Local Renegotiation of Global Concepts for Urban Development Projects

    Postdoc Projects
    Future Area of "Stadtteil der Quartiere"; Tree in front of Frankfurt Skyline in the Background

  • Gated Luxury Condominiums in India

    A Socio-Spatial Arena for New Cosmopolitans

    publication
    Cover of Publication "Gated Luxury Condominimus in India"

  • Jakob Unterholzner

    Student Assistants
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