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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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  • 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, 8 July 2026, 7 - 8:30 p.m., TU Darmstadt

  • The People’s Workbook, 1981

    Development Geometries of an Anti-Apartheid Homesteading Manual

    Lecture Series
    Amageja (iron hoe blade), date and maker unknown. © The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence.

    16. March 2026Friederike Weidner

    Lecture by Dr. Hannah le Roux, 24 June 2026, 7-8:30 p.m., TU Darmstadt

  • Unique and innovative collaborations

    Interview

    15. August 2025Friederike Weidner

    Video Interview about "Organizing Architectures" with the two Directors Prof. Dr. Sybille Frank & Prof. Dr. Carsten Ruhl

  • Manuela Camargo de Assis

    PhD Candidates
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  • Christine Hieb

    PhD Candidates
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  • Lorenzo Graf

    PhD Candidates
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  • The Housing Question is a Feminist Question 

    Housing Commons for the “New Woman” of the German Werkbund

    publication

  • Dorothea Douglas

    Former members
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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.

  • Fanti Baum

    PhD Candidates
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  • Mike Bill

    PhD Candidates
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  • Friederike Weidner

    Coordinator
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  • Prof. Dr. Susanne Heeg

    Principal Investigators
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  • Dr. Dhara Patel

    Associates
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  • Bauhaus Clouds

    Challenges to the Nebula of Architectural Histories and Archives

    publication

  • Prof. Dr. Lisbeth Zimmermann

    Principal Investigators

  • «We want to establish architectural studies as a field of research»

    Interview

    12. March 2024B.PH

    Interview with Prof. Dr. Carsten Ruhl and Prof. Dr. Sybille Frank, directors of the Research Training Group «Organizing Architectures» by Lore Graf

  • Prof. Dr. Christiane Salge

    Principal Investigators
    Christiane Salge, Photo: Uwe Dettmar

  • Organizing Architectures: Coloniality

    Lecture Series

    15. October 2025Friederike Weidner

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

  • Business-as-unusual

    Exploring port stakeholders’ time tactics for mediating recent disruptions at the Port of Rotterdam

    publication
    Cover of "Time & Society"

  • 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

  • Heritage and Conflict in Berlin

    publication

  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Knöll

    Principal Investigators
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  • Prof. Dr. Sybille Frank

    Directors, Principal Investigators
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