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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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  • Architectural Key to Rotterdam’s Urban Imaginary

    Urban Imaginaries

  • Frankfurt Airport / Spotterplatz West- and Centerbahn

    16 January 2026 / 1.44 p.m.

    Field Notes

  • Kontroverse Architekturen

    #1 Stadtbilder

    Discussion

    13. February 2026Kristin Otte

    A joint event by "Organizing Architectures" and Volkshochschule Frankfurt as part of Frankfurt World Design Capital 2026, 29.4.2026, Stadthaus Frankfurt

  • Organizing Architectures: Coloniality

    Lecture Series

    15. October 2025Friederike Weidner

    Lecture Series, 26 November 2025 - 15 July 2026, 7 - 8:30 p.m., at Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM)

  • Prof. Dr. Lisbeth Zimmermann

    Principal Investigators

  • Fanti Baum

    PhD Candidates
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  • 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"

  • Lore Graf

    PhD Candidates
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  • Spaces of Appearance

    Aesthetics and Politics After Analogy

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

  • Prof. Dr. Carsten Ruhl

    Directors, Principal Investigators
    Carsten Ruhl, Photo: Uwe Dettmar

  • 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

  • The People’s Workbook, 1981

    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 2026Kristin Otte

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

  • Flooded by Mail

    How George Floyd (Remember?) Landed at the Tate

    publication
    Cover of Flooded by Mail

  • Nikolay Smirnov

    PhD Candidates
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  • Dominik Laute

    PhD Candidates
    Profile Image of Dominik Laute

  • Entangled and Non-aligned

    Political Landscapes of Rest

    PhD Projects

  • Friederike Weidner

    Coordinator
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  • Memory before (and after) Terrorist Acts of Violence

    Urbicide at Breitscheidplatz, Berlin

    publication
    Cover of Memory Before Violence

  • Rev. Kudawawe Somananda Thero

    PhD Candidates
    Somananda Thero, Photo: Uwe Dettmar

  • 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
    Jakob Unterholzner

  • Prof. Dr. Susanne Heeg

    Principal Investigators
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  • Bauhaus Clouds

    Challenges to the Nebula of Architectural Histories and Archives

    publication

  • Katharina Marschall

    Associates
    Portrait of Katharina Marschall
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