Assoc. Prof. Miriam Hamel
Associate Professor of Process Architecture, Deputy Head of the Institute of Process Architecture
Department of Architecture
Telephone: 02222-93211407
Biography
Since 2024 Associate Professor of Process Architecture at Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences
2024 Teaching assignment in the Arts and Research department at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar as part of the interdisciplinary Bauhaus Modules
Since 2024 Member of the studio community Gereonswall 114 Cologne
2022 Workshop leader as part of the IDEA League Summer School “When Science Meets Art – For Climate Action at University Campuses” with an interdisciplinary group of master’s and PhD students from TU Delft, ETH Zurich, RWTH Aachen, Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg, Politecnico di Milano, Nanyang Technological University – NTU Singapore and Tokyo Institute of Technology, organized by the Chair of Urban Design and Design and the Institute of Urban Design and European Urbanism, Prof. Christa Reichert, RWTH Aachen
Since 2021 Workshop leader with master’s and PhD students from the University of Mannheim and KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology as part of the “Bronnbacher Scholarship – Cultural Competence for Future Leaders” of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
Since 2019 Artistic-scientific doctorate (PhD) in the practice-based PhD program Art and Design at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Since 2017 – 2024 Member of Atelierzentrum Ehrenfeld of the art association artrmx e.V., Cologne
Since 2016 Founding member and deputy head (since 2017) of the Institute of Process Architecture in the Department of Architecture at Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences
2014 – 2024 Research associate in the Department of Architecture at Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences
2010 – 2014 Founding and board member of the artists’ network and offspace Earlstreet, Darmstadt
2010 – 2014 Student assistant at the Passive House Institute, Darmstadt
2006 – 2014 Studied architecture at TU Darmstadt, Diplom with distinction
Research Focus
Process design, co-creation, spatial transformation, artistic research
Awards, Scholarships and Funding
2024 – 2026 Studio funding from the City of Cologne
2024 Wisa+ Women in Science and Arts, mentoring program for doctoral candidates and postdocs at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
2023 Doctoral scholarship in the final phase at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
2023 Funding for conference stays abroad from the Bauhaus Research School (2023, 2024)
2022 Project funding from the Creative Fund of Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
2021 – 2023 Doctoral scholarship from the Schmittmann-Wahlen Foundation
2021 Project funding from moderne stadt – Gesellschaft zur Förderung des Städtebaues und der Gemeindeentwicklung
2020 Project funding from the women’s advancement fund of Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
2020 Project funding from the program “Starke Veedel – Starkes Köln,” funded by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community, the Ministry of Homeland, Municipal Affairs, Building and Equal Opportunities of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the urban development funding program of the federal government, states and municipalities, and the City of Cologne
2015 Otto Bartning Award for Architecture and Fine Arts
2014 Athene Medal for outstanding academic achievement at TU Darmstadt
Projects and Exhibitions
2026 “Neue Juwelen – Vom Abfall zur Ressource”, participation as part of Au Repair in the cooperative project by Baukultur NRW with Au Repair, Baukreisel e. V., strizzi studio and TH Köln; dismantling, staging and passing on building materials in two vacant shop units on Hohe Straße, Cologne (02.–07.03.2026)
2025 BACK:LAB – Laboratory for Artistic Urban Research, teaching-research project with Prof. Dr. Eva Nöthen (Didactics of Geography, Institute of Geography, University of Bonn) as well as Neja Häbler, Lien Do (Alanus University) and Johanna Reitz (University of Bonn), funded by the discretionary fund of the City of Bonn with resources from the Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building, the urban development funding program of the federal government, states and municipalities, and the Ministry of Homeland, Municipal Affairs, Building and Digitalization of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (Sept. – Dec. 2025)
2025 StadtBauStelle – Shaping Urban Space Together, workshop with Lorenz Rhiner and Julian Krüger, together with Konstantin Adamopoulos as well as master’s and PhD students from the University of Mannheim and KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, as part of the “Kulturkreis Scholarship” of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft
(20. – 22.06.2025)
2025 Table Talks, workshop and exhibition as part of the project Offene Baustelle, artistic teaching-research project for the development of the Open Embassy for Democracy into a place for democracy and art in cooperation with Opem Embassy GmbH of the Montag Foundations (26.-30.05.2025)
2024 At the Table, workshop as part of the project Offene Baustelle, artistic teaching-research project for the development of the Open Embassy for Democracy into a place for democracy and art in cooperation with Opem Embassy GmbH of the Montag Foundations
2024 – 2027 Offene Baustelle, artistic teaching-research project for the development of the Open Embassy for Democracy into a place for democracy and art in cooperation with Opem Embassy GmbH of the Montag Foundations
2024 Au Repair – Dynamics of Repairing, Converting and Reusing Objects, Architecture and Urban Space, initiated by Architects For Future and in cooperation with HDAK at Josef-Haubrich-Hof, Cologne (13.-15.09.2024)
2024 – 2025 Dorfschänke Alt Merzbach, process support as part of the program “Dritte Orte – Häuser für Kultur und Begegnung im ländlichen Raum” of the Ministry of Science and Education of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
2024 Permeable and Performative Temporalities – Researching and engaging with transformative, transdisciplinary, and transnational pasts – presents – futures as part of an international and interdisciplinary research workshop hosted by the Athena Institute at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (05. – 07.06.2024)
2023 – 2024 Now we play a different game, exhibition, artrmx art association, Cologne (16.12. – 14.01.2024)
2023 Gathering Around the Campus of Tomorrow, workshop with Claire Waffel and Konstantin Adamopoulos with students from the University of Mannheim and KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology as part of the “Bronnbacher Scholarship – Cultural Competence for Future Leaders” of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft (29.09. – 01.10.2023)
2022 ETC / Bordered Up Spaces, Urban tour with five artistic projects in Barcelona initiated by the arts project Idensitat and the Imarte Art Science Technology research group at the Universitat de Barcelona (26.11.2022)
2022 Discover.Develop.Design – Researching the Future, exhibition on emerging research for the future as part of the Long Night of the Sciences at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (18.11.2022)
2022 When Science Meets Art – For Climate Action at University Campuses, workshop leader with Claire Waffel as part of the IDEA League Summer School at RWTH Aachen with students from TU Delft, ETH Zurich, RWTH Aachen, Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg and Politecnico di Milano (03. – 07. 09.2022)
2022 Scale of difference – Insights into Artistic Research, exhibition with Lena Trost and Claire Waffel at M BOOKS Gallery for Architecture and Neighboring Disciplines in Weimar as part of the artistic program of the 13th International SAR Conference on Artistic Research at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (27.06. – 03.07.2022 )
2022 Phase 0 of the Räume am Kölner Ring, workshop leader with scholarship holders of the “Bronnbacher Scholarship” of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft, the University of Mannheim and KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (27. – 29.05.2022)
2022 Public Arts Garage – transnational tinkering in transdisciplinary, participatory, public art, participation in the transdisciplinary exchange program of Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, University College Cork, University of Barcelona, Rennes 2 University and Queen’s University Belfast on creative approaches to public space (February – April 2022 )
2021 Participation in the Superpopp-Up Performance Festival of the Nextmuseum, a project of NRW-Forum Düsseldorf/Kunstpalast Düsseldorf and Museum Ulm in the program Ku/tur Digita/ of the German Federal Cultural Foundation (August 2021)
2021 Bronnbach Architecture Weekend, workshop leader with scholarship holders of the “Bronnbacher Scholarship” of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft, the University of Mannheim and KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (13. – 15.08.2021)
2021 “Leben 1:1”, artistic project with Annelie Knust and Magrit Miebach in cooperation with the Bronnbacher Scholarship Program – Cultural Competence for Future Leaders of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft, the University of Mannheim and KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, funded by moderne stadt – Gesellschaft zur Förderung des Städtebaues und der Gemeindeentwicklung
2020 “Chorweiler Gold”, artistic project in Cologne-Chorweiler with Valerie Häußler as part of the program “Starke Veedel – Starkes Köln,” funded by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community, the Ministry of Homeland, Municipal Affairs, Building and Equal Opportunities of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the urban development funding program of the federal government, states and municipalities, and the City of Cologne
2020 “Islands”, artistic intervention at Barbarossaplatz, Cologne
2020 “Tools for interaction”, exhibition with Maud Canisius and Lena Trost at HilbertRaum, Berlin
Since 2019 “Stadtfinden – Artistic Research on the Meaning and Function of Artistic Interventions in the Context of Urban Development Processes”, doctorate in the field of art at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, supervised by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alexandra Tolland and Prof. Dr. Florian Kluge
2019 “Gemeingold Boden”, curated spatial intervention as part of the wo lang conference: Gemeingut Boden with Prof. Willem-Jan Beeren and Gabriel Cruz
2019 – 2020 “Phase 0”, collaboration in the qualification process for the expansion of Freie Waldorfschule Rosenheim under the direction of Prof. Swen Geiss
2019 “Re:Public”, participation in the academy as part of the international urban art festival CityLeaks 2019 in Cologne in cooperation with Prof. Willem-Jan Beeren, TH Köln and Studio Orizzontale from Rome
2019 “Werkschau Gruppe 69”, participation in the exhibition, artrmx art association, Cologne
2018 – 19 “Phase 0”, collaboration in the qualification process for the expansion of Freie Waldorfschule Hof under the direction of Prof. Swen Geiss
2018 “Werkschau Gruppe 69”, participation in the exhibition, artrmx art association, Cologne
2017 “Tiefe Schwere – hohe Leichte”, intervention as part of the congress “Soziale Zukunft” at RuhrCongress, Bochum
2017 “Ausblick!”, participation in the exhibition, DA Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst, Hörstel
2017 “Offene Werkstatt Baukultur – Zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement für den Ort”, collaboration in the organization of a building culture workshop under the direction of Prof. Dr. Florian Kluge in cooperation with Büro für urbane Projekte, Leipzig and LandLuft – Verein zur Förderung von Baukultur in ländlichen Räumen, Moosburg, Austria, commissioned by the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR)
2017 “Kunstkommunikation”, participation in an ideas workshop in cooperation with Valerie Häußler, DA Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst, Hörstel
2017 “Werkschau Gruppe 69”, participation in the exhibition, artrmx art association, Cologne
2017 “IPA Symposium Prozessarchitektur”, organization of a symposium by the Institute of Process Architecture at Alanus University, Alfter
2016 “Selfie”, participation in the exhibition, Künstlerforum, Bonn
2016 “Freifahrtschein”, intervention at the decommissioned Bendenfeld freight station in Bonn in cooperation with Valerie Häußler, supported by the Alison und Peter Klein Foundation, Häfen- und Güterverkehr Köln AG and Früchte Abels
2016 “Kunst im Raum – Künstler befragen das Volkshaus”, artistic direction of the art project and installation as part of the test operation at Volkshaus Rotthausen, Gelsenkirchen
2015 – 2016 “testbetrieb”, collaboration in the activation and participation process of Volkshaus Rotthausen under the direction of Prof. Swen Geiss, commissioned by the City of Gelsenkirchen
2015 “Unerwartet Erwartet”, participation in the exhibition, Kunstbrennerei, Bonn
2015 “Otto-Bartning-Preis”, participation in the exhibition, Hochschule Darmstadt
2014 – 2017 “Baukultur konkret”, collaboration on the research project under the direction of Prof. Dr. Florian Kluge and Prof. Swen Geiss, in cooperation with Büro für urbane Projekte, Leipzig and LandLuft – Verein zur Förderung von Baukultur in ländlichen Räumen, commissioned by the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR)
2012 “Super-Kultur-Sparschweine”, intervention in the Schlossgraben Darmstadt as part of the Architecture Summer Rhine-Main in cooperation with Johannes Gonné and the artist group Earlstret
2012 “Beutekunst”, participation in the exhibition, Galerie Earlstreet, Darmstadt
2011 “Leer-Gut”, temporary activation of vacant space in Darmstadt as part of the Architecture Summer Rhine-Main in cooperation with Julia Krämer and the artist group Earlstreet
2011 “Filmexperimente – Entdeckung städtischer Wohnräume”, participation in the exhibition, Kunsthalle, Darmstadt
2011 “Urban Tools – Hilfsmittel für städtische Räume”, participation in the exhibition as part of the Architecture Summer Rhine-Main, Galerie Earlstreet, Darmstadt
2010 – 2014 “Earlstreet”, artistic director and member of the gallery’s advisory board, Darmstadt
Publications
Hamel, M. (2023): Experimenting the City of tomorrow. In: By Design or By Disaster – Transforming Together, Free University of Bozen
Hamel, M., Kluge, F. (2022): Designing Together – Formats of Phase 0. In: Transurban Magazin, funk Verlag, Cologne
Hamel, M., Morales, N. (2022): Leeway. In: Idensitat, Imarte Art Science Technology research group at the Universitat de Barcelona: ETC / Bordered Up Spaces. Barcelona
2022 Hamel, M., Kluge, F.: Tell me how your project started and I will tell you how it ends. Formats of Phase 0. In: Phase 0 in Urban Development. Baukultur NRW, Gelsenkirchen.
2022 Hamel, M.: Artistic Visions for the City of Tomorrow – On the Potential of Artistic Strategies in the Context of Urban Development Processes. In: RaumPlanung – Journal for Spatial Planning and Research. Issue 215: 1-2022, City of Small Steps – Experimental Processes in Urban Development, Dortmund.
2018 Working Group Baukultur konkret: Baukultur konkret. Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) in the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB), (ed.), Berlin, Bonn
2018 Working Group Baukultur konkret: Civic Engagement for Place. Documentation of the Open Workshop on Building Culture from 24 to 25 October 2017 in Leipzig. Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) in the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB), (ed.), Berlin, Bonn
2017 Working Group Baukultur Konkret: 33 Building Culture Recipes. Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB), (ed.), Berlin, Bonn, ISBN 978-3-87994-211-4
Lectures and Symposia
2026 Kitchen Talk, Conference contribution at the 21st International Conference on The Arts in Society, hosted by the Arts in Society Research Network at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (10.–12.06.2026)
2025 Futur – Future Workshop Using Simultanhalle as an Example, lecture as part of the future workshop, Simultanhalle e.V., Baukultur NRW, Simultanhalle Cologne (27.09.2025)
2025 Lecture as part of the research workshop at the Chair of Architecture – Theory – History of Prof. Dr. Adria Daraban at Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (15.07.2025)
2025 Utopian Spaces, Conference contribution at the 16th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research on Resonance hosted by the Society for Artistic Research and i2ADS at the University of Porto (07. – 09.05.2025)
2025 Creating Space for Democratic Processes, lecture, workshop and panel participation as part of the Nationwide School Award Winners Conference 2025 on the topic of learning democracy, organized by the Robert Bosch Stiftung, Heidehof Stiftung, ARD and Zeit at the Bildungscampus in Heilbronn (27. – 28.03.2025)
2024 Prozessarchitektur – Gebaute Demokratie?!, lecture as part of the event “Wir bauen Demokratie!”, organized by the Institute of Process Architecture of the Department of Architecture at Alanus University, Baukultur NRW, Montag Stiftung Urbane Räume and Open Embassy for Democracy in Bonn (11.10.2024)
2024 On the Role of Spatial Interventions in Imagining the Future, lecture with Claire Waffel in the panel “connecting pasts, presents & futures as a situated intervention for transformation” in the context of the International EASST-4S 2024 conference “Making and Doing Transformations,” hosted by the Athena Institute at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (16. – 19.07.2024)
2023 Art’s Knowledge for the City of Tomorrow, lecture and workshop as part of the Festival of Contemporary Urban Development at the Center for Contemporary Urban Development in Cologne (10.11.2023)
2023 Lecture at the By Design or by Disaster conference organized by the Free University of Bozen at BASIS Vinschgau-Venosta in South Tyrol, Italy (29.03. – 02.04.2023)
2023 Lecture, art walk, workshop and panel contribution as part of the 7th International Symposium on Architectural Education Kultur.Erbe.Aneignung at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (24. – 26.03.2023)
2022 Transformation, Hope and the Commons, poster presentation with Natalia Morales as part of the project Public Arts Garage at the EASA2022 Conference: Transformation, Hope and the Commons at Queen’s University in Belfast (26. – 29.07.2022)
2021 Art and Space. Lecture on the potential of artistic strategies for contributing to the design of the city of tomorrow as part of the public lecture series “Space” in the Department of Architecture at Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences
2020 Artistic Research. A Handbook. Lecture as part of the public lecture series “1 Department – 10 Books” in the Department of Architecture as part of the project “One University – One Book” at Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences
2020 Keynote lecture as part of the future workshop “Hope – the Art of Transformation” at Zentralwerk der schönen Künste, Cologne
2019 Revitalizing Vacancies – Testing Uses in the testbetrieb, workshop as part of the networking event 41 x Practical. For Makers of Public-Interest-Oriented Urban Development Projects, organized by Stiftung Trias, startklar.projekt.kommunikation, Bürgerstiftung Rohrmeisterei Schwerte, Montag Stiftung Urbane Räume and Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences, on 20.11.2019 at Rohrmeisterei Schwerte.
2017 “Baukultur konkret” presentation of the research project as part of the “Open Workshop on Building Culture,” organized by the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB) at the Konsumzentrale in Leipzig
2017 “Offene Werkstatt Baukultur – Zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement für den Ort”, collaboration in the conception and organization of the workshop commissioned by the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) in Leipzig, 24.-25.10.2017
2017 “IPA Symposium Prozessarchitektur”, collaboration in the conception and organization of a symposium by the Institute of Process Architecture at Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences in Alfter, 15.09.2017
2017 “Raum auf Zeit – Künstlerische Interventionen im Öffentlichen Raum”, short lecture as part of KAP-Forum on tour at Alanus University in Alfter
2012 “EarlStreet”, short lecture as part of Pecha Kucha Night, organized by the German Architecture Museum, Centralstation Darmstadt
Memberships
Society for Artistic Research
Society for Artistic Design Teaching
University Network Gemeinsam für die Bauwende
Institute of Process Architecture
