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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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  • On Famine Codes, Relief Camps, and the Making of Rural Poverty

    Lecture Series

    15. May 2026Friederike Weidner

    Lecture by Dr. Ateya Khorakiwala, 15 July 2026, 7-8:30 p.m., TU Darmstadt

  • Dorothea Douglas

    Former members
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  • Dr. Chris Dähne

    Associates
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  • Political Resonances of Spatial Configuration

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

  • Flooded by Mail

    How George Floyd (Remember?) Landed at the Tate

    publication
    Cover of Flooded by Mail

  • Between Aesthetic Justice and the Right to Beauty

    The Aesthetics of Self-built Settlements in Latin America

    Lecture Series

    3. June 2026Friederike Weidner

    Lecture by Dr. Jessica Pineda-Zumaran. Postponed to the winter semester!

  • Architectural Key to Rotterdam’s Urban Imaginary

    Urban Imaginaries

    13. April 2026Kristin Otte

    by Nikolay Smirnov

  • Jakob Unterholzner

    Student Assistants
    Jakob Unterholzner

  • Prof. Dr. Carsten Ruhl

    Directors, Principal Investigators
    Carsten Ruhl, Photo: Uwe Dettmar

  • Prof. Dr. Susanne Heeg

    Principal Investigators
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  • Gabriela Ornelas

    PhD Candidates
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  • Friederike Weidner

    Coordinator
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  • 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

  • Gated Luxury Condominiums in India

    A Socio-Spatial Arena for New Cosmopolitans

    publication
    Cover of Publication "Gated Luxury Condominimus in India"

  • Kristin Otte

    Student Assistants
    Kristin Otte

  • Lorenzo Graf

    PhD Candidates
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  • Institutions – Networks – Discourses

    Fields of Work in the “Organizing Architectures” Research Training Group

    General

  • Hybrid Urbanisms in Secondary Cities of the Global South

    Insights from Urban Planning and Infrastructure Delivery in Ghana and Peru

    publication
    Cover of the Book "Hybrid Urbanisms"

  • Spaces of Appearance

    Aesthetics and Politics After Analogy

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

  • Wie sehen Sie Frankfurt?

    Open Call

  • Dr. Sarah Borree

    Associates

  • 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

  • Organizing Architectures: Coloniality

    Lecture Series

    15. October 2025Friederike Weidner

    Lecture Series, 26 November 2025 - 15 July 2026, 7 - 8:30 p.m.

  • Architectural Echoes of Authority and Social Stratification in 18th and 19th Century Sri Lanka 

    The Case of Kandy

    PhD Projects
    The Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, Sri Lanka, c.1820
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