Prof. Dr.-Ing. Florian Kluge
Head of the Institute for Process Architecture, Chair: Project Management
Department of Architecture
Phone: 02222-93211409
The Chair
The Chair of Project Management teaches, on the one hand, the tools required for well-organized, structured, and goal-oriented work. On the other hand, students are enabled to initiate and collaboratively shape co-creation: this includes the ability to think in open-ended processes, develop flexible process designs, work in interdisciplinary teams, and engage in complex projects and diverse stakeholder constellations. The modules of the Chair of Project Management are primarily located in the master’s degree program, where the first tools are learned and applied through a combination of input and team-oriented exercises. In addition, this knowledge is transferred to students’ own study projects.
Research Focus Areas
Process architecture & project management
Participation, involvement & co-creation as processes of building culture
Community-oriented process design & common-good-oriented project development
Space for a limited time: temporary interventions, artistic installations, and design processes in public space
Biography
2022-25: Dean of the Department of Architecture
2019-22: Vice Dean of the Department of Architecture
Since 2018 // Partner at nonconform ideenwerkstatt GmbH, Vienna, Berlin, Aachen
Since 2016 // Head of the Institute for Process Architecture, Alanus University, Alfter
Since 2010 // Professor, Chair of Project Management, Alanus University, Alfter
2008 – 2010 // Interim Professor at the Chair of Landscape Architecture, RWTH Aachen
2008 // Doctorate in Engineering (Dr.-Ing.), RWTH Aachen
2005 // Certification as a project management trainer (PS & DM, Problem Solving and Decision Making)
Since 2003 // Owner of kluge.projekte: Office for landscape architecture, project management, and process design; freelance landscape architect (AKNW) and project management consultant (GPM)
2003 – 2008 // Research Associate at the Chair of Landscape Architecture, RWTH Aachen
2002 – 2003 // Part-time postgraduate studies in project management/project control leading to qualification as a specialist engineer in construction project management, Bauhaus University Weimar
1999 – 2003 // Project Manager at WES & Partner Landscape Architects, Hamburg
1998 – 1999 // Freelance work for the Parks Department of Castrop-Rauxel
1992 – 1998 // Studied landscape architecture, graduating as Dipl.-Ing. in open space and landscape planning, University of Hanover
Projects and Exhibitions
11.06.2024 // Construction Reduction Planning. Organization and moderation of Forum 2 “Construction Reduction Planning” together with nonconform as part of the Convention on Building Culture of the Federal Foundation for Building Culture in Potsdam.
22.10.2024 // We Build Democracy! Organization and moderation of the event in cooperation with Baukultur NRW, Montag Stiftung Urbane Räume, Open Embassy for Democracy in Bonn.
May to July 2023 // Pehnthaus Salon Talk with Book. Organization and moderation of the event series in cooperation with Baukultur NRW and TH Köln. Seven events in spring 2023 in Cologne.
03.03.2023 // Book presentation “Baukultur wosisndes,” with the working group “Baukultur konkret” as part of the Baukulturregion Alpenvorland project in Bad Feilnbach.
24.11.2022 // Network meeting, strategy development, and handover for Baukulturregion Alpenvorland with the working group Baukultur konkret, organization and moderation together with Elisabeth Leitner in Gmund.
15.11.2022 // 43 x Practical. For people making common-good-oriented urban development projects: inputs & information, aids & tools. Organization and moderation of the event in cooperation with startklar.projekt.kommunikation, Bürgerstiftung Rohrmeisterei Schwerte, Stiftung Trias, and Montag Stiftung Urbane Räume at Rohrmeisterei Schwerte.
2022 // BIM Café of the Aachen Building Experts. Organization and moderation together with Prof. Hagen Schmidt-Bleker, Alfter.
2022 // 42 x Practical. For people making common-good-oriented urban development projects: third event in the series in cooperation with Stiftung Trias, startklar.projekt.kommunikation, Bürgerstiftung Rohrmeisterei Schwerte, and Montag Stiftung Urbane Räume, on 15.11.2022 at Rohrmeisterei Schwerte.
2022 // Convention on Building Culture 2022. Forum 4 “Building Culture on Site – Initiatives Nationwide.” Moderation together with Elisabeth Leitner on behalf of the Federal Foundation for Building Culture. Potsdam.
2021 // 3rd Building Culture Workshop Baukulturregion. Symposium of the LEADER project of the districts of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, Miesbach, and Rosenheim. Organization and moderation of the event in cooperation with Büro für Urbane Projekte and LandLuft, in Kolbermoor.
2021 // 2nd Building Culture Workshop Baukulturregion Alpenvorland. Symposium of the LEADER project of the districts of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, Miesbach, and Rosenheim. Organization and moderation of the event in cooperation with Büro für Urbane Projekte and LandLuft, digital.
2021 // Meeting of building culture stakeholders. Organization and moderation of the workshop on behalf of Baukultur NRW, digital.
2020 // Organization and moderation of the digital network meeting of Baukultur NRW’s building culture stakeholders, on 25.11.2020
2020 // Moderation of the 1st Building Culture Workshop Baukulturregion Alpenvorland. Kick-off event of the LEADER project of the districts of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, Miesbach, and Rosenheim. Organization and moderation of the event in cooperation with Büro für Urbane Projekte Leipzig and LandLuft, Moosburg, on 27.10.2020.
2019 // 41 x Practical. For people making common-good-oriented urban development projects: second event in the series in cooperation with Stiftung Trias, startklar.projekt.kommunikation, Bürgerstiftung Rohrmeisterei Schwerte, and Montag Stiftung Urbane Räume, on 20.11.2019 at Rohrmeisterei Schwerte.
2019 // Citizens Create Building Culture. Organization and moderation of the symposium in cooperation with the building culture team of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe (LWL) and Rohrmeisterei Schwerte, on 04.04.2019 at Rohrmeisterei Schwerte.
2019 // More than Walls. Third places as spaces with a high quality of stay. Intervention, lecture, and workshop moderation as part of the kick-off event “Third Places. Houses for Culture and Encounter in Rural Areas” on behalf of the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, on 27.02.2019 in Schwerte.
2018 // 40 x Practical. For people making common-good-oriented urban development projects: inputs & information, aids & tools. Organization and moderation of the event in cooperation with startklar.projekt.kommunikation, Bürgerstiftung Rohrmeisterei Schwerte, and Montag Stiftung Urbane Räume, on 07.03.2018 at Rohrmeisterei Schwerte.
2017 // GrenzWertig: Artistic redesign of Hürth Hermülheim station. Installation in cooperation with Prof. Willem-Jan Beeren, Prof. Paul Petry, and the Museum of Architecture and Engineering Art (M:AI), Kölner Verkehrsbetriebe AG (KVB), and Häfen und Güterverkehr AG Köln (HGK)
2017 // Open Building Culture Workshop – Civic engagement for the place. Organization and moderation of a building culture workshop on behalf of the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR). In cooperation with Büro für urbane Projekte, Leipzig, and LandLuft – Association for the Promotion of Building Culture in Rural Areas
2017 // Project management training in citizen participation: Two-day training course “Project Management in Citizen Participation” as part of the nonconform Academy, Vienna
2016 // Process and project management. Two-day training course for the teaching staff of the Rudolf Steiner School Hamburg-Altona.
2016 // Heimatmuseum Burbach. Concept development and moderation of several workshops for the redesign of the museum, Alte Vogtei, and Haus Herbig. Commissioned by the municipal administration and the Heimatverein Burbach between April and September 2016 in Burbach. In cooperation with Prof. Dr. Mathias Wirths.
2014 – 2017 // Baukultur konkret, commissioned by the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR), as part of the Experimental Housing and Urban Development research program (ExWoSt). In cooperation with Büro für urbane Projekte, Leipzig, and LandLuft – Association for the Promotion of Building Culture in Rural Areas
2015 // STRUKTURwandel: Temporary intervention as part of the exhibition “Green City” at Ludwiggalerie Schloss Oberhausen. In cooperation with Willem-Jan Beeren and Max Wester.
2014 // NetzWerk: Temporary intervention on the grounds of the Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex World Heritage Site, Essen. Funded by M:AI, Stiftung Zollverein, Regionalverband Ruhr, and Emschergenossenschaft. In cooperation with Willem-Jan Beeren.
2013 – 2014 // Project Management Goes to School: Project management training for the project class of the “Morgenwind” school initiative, Waldorf School Ravensburg, and staff of the Camphill Community Lehenhof, Deggenhausertal.
2012 – 2013 // kistenweise: Temporary intervention in Paderborn, funded as part of the ExWOSt (Experimental Housing and Urban Development) project “Building Culture in Practice” of the City of Paderborn. In cooperation with Willem-Jan Beeren.
2012 – 2013 // Landscape Policy for the Three-Countries-Parc. Research project in cooperation with Wageningen University, the Netherlands, and the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, as part of the EU program “ESPON”
2012 // District Government of Cologne / BLB NRW: Training course “Holistic Project Management” for the building construction trainees of the District Government of Cologne and specialist career staff of BLB NRW.
2011-2012 // Village renewal concept & moderation of the planning process for the municipality of Dahlem, district of Schmidtheim, commissioned by the municipality of Dahlem, in cooperation with Planungsbüro Valerius, Dorsel
2011 – 2012 // SPACEmaker!: Temporary intervention in Bonn. Contribution to Aktion_Baukultur, funded by the Federal Foundation for Building Culture as part of the Convention on Building Culture “StattVerkehrStadt.” In cooperation with Willem-Jan Beeren and Ulrich Berding.
2009 – 20120 // ‘Stimulus Packages’: Installation in Schlosspark Stammheim, Cologne, as part of the exhibitions Rheinblicke – Einblicke and Art Geo Köln. In cooperation with Daniel Lohmann
2009 // Landscape architectural redesign of the center of Mulartshütte: design concept, commissioned by the Mulartshütte citizens’ initiative. In cooperation with Planungsbüro Valerius
2007 – 2009 // Analysis of informal dynamics in mega urban areas – based on spatial structure and steering mechanismus focused on water in the Pearl River Delta, China (2007-2009); as part of the DFG priority program “Informal Dynamics of Global Change”
2007 // ‘Schäl Sick Wall’: Art installation inside the Deutz Rhine Bridge as part of the exhibition ‘übermnfluss’. In cooperation with Daniel Lohmann
1999- 2013 // Various projects as project manager for WES & Partner, Hamburg: e.g. station surroundings in Erfurt, town hall surroundings in Chemnitz, surroundings of the city archive in Hildesheim, private park Gut Lasbek, district development Viktoria Quarter Kreuzberg, outdoor facilities for the congress center in Dresden, urban redevelopment of the National Archives in Copenhagen
2008 // District Government of Cologne: Training in rhetoric, presentation, and moderation for urban planning trainees of the District Government of Cologne
Publications
2026 // Kluge, F.: Bürger:innen machen Baukultur. In: Kulturpolitische Mitteilungen, issue 192, I/2026, BauKultur! as a driver of participation and engagement, pp. 31-34
2025 // Kluge, F., Leitner, E., Teichmann, B.: Baukultur wosisndes? In: Garten und Landschaft 08/25, pp. 36-39
2024 // Kluge, F., Deuter, P., Dianat, B.: Pure Curiosity. The Alanus University workshop and think lab. Interview. In: polis MAGAZIN, 02/2024, pp. 56-59.
2024 // Kluge, F.: Project management in open processes. In: Ahrens, H., Bastian, K., Muchwoski, L.: Handbuch Projektsteuerung – Baumanagement. A practice-oriented guide. 7th, updated and expanded edition. Fraunhofer IRB, Stuttgart, ISBN Print: 978-3-7388-0895-7, pp. 20-27.
2023 // Kluge, F., Teichmann, B., Arbeitsgemeinschaft Baukultur Konkret: Baukultur wosisndes?. Final publication of the research project Baukulturregion Alpenvorland, Arge Baukultur konkret, Holzkirchen.
2023 // Kluge, F., Hamel, M. Shaping together. Formats of Phase 0. In: Barringhaus, G., Winterhager, U. (2023): Transurban, Residency 2022.
2022 // Kluge, F., Bäcker, T.: Sofa, coffee, business plan – jointly creating new places between living and working. Episode 15 of the podcast “Stadtrederei. Reflections on city and space” by the Institute for Urban Development and Housing, 08/2022.
2022 // Kluge, F.: Foreword in Brandner-Gruber, G., Breuer, S.: “Why not REALLABOR” – Awakening a vacancy into an Immovielie, p. 9
2022 // Kluge, F. Hamel, M. : Tell me how your project started and I will tell you how it ends. Formats of Phase 0. In; issue no. 2: Phase0, Baukultur NRW, pp. 16-17
2021 // Kluge, F., Bernögger, A., Brunner, B., Gruber, R., Klafft, T., Toscano, M. (2021): How does digital work? Participation during and after the pandemic. Magazine article in: pnd – rethinking planning 02/2021, pp. 102-114.
2021 // Kluge, F. Supporting change – creating living spaces. As well as the interview “Words and Works.” In: Der Entwurf, April/2021. Magazine of Deutsche BauZeitung, pp. 22-27.
2020 // Kluge, F.: Project management in open processes. In: Ahrens, H. , Bastian, K., Muchowski, L.: Handbuch Projektsteuerung – Baumanagement. A practice-oriented guide. 6th, revised edition. Fraunhofer IRB, Stuttgart, ISBN Print: 978-3-7388-0298-6, pp. 20-27.
2020 // Kluge, F. Gruber, R.: Citizen participation. The most beautiful common denominator. In: Quartier. Trade magazine for urban housing construction 05/2020, pp. 28-33.
2020 // Kluge, F.: The ideal citizen participation. In: Deutsches Architektenblatt (DAB) 09/2020, pp. 32-33
2020 // Kluge, F., Brandstätter: Participation in digital times. In: Garten und Landschaft 08/2020, pp. 28-30
2019 // Flexible processes – New paths in project management. In: Langen, W., Leupertz, S., Preuß. N., Rintelen, C. (eds.): Construction projects as an interdisciplinary challenge. Festschrift for Klaus Eschenbruch. On his 65th birthday, pp.189-198, Werner Verlag
2019 // Baukultur konkret. Projects and formats. In: Stadt Land Bauen. Day of Building Culture 2018, State Initiative +Baukultur in Hessen, Hessian Ministry of Finance (ed.) pp. 30-31. 2018 // Experimenting, participating, developing. Temporary interventions as a means of urban design. In: KMN Magazin – Culture and Management in Dialogue 08/2018, pp. 49 – 61.
2018 // Arbeitsgemeinschaft Baukultur konkret: Baukultur konkret. Final report of the research project of the same name. Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) within the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR), Bonn; Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community (BMI), Berlin, ISBN: 978-3-87994-231-2
2018 // Arbeitsgemeinschaft Baukultur konkret: Civic engagement for the place. Documentation of the Open Building Culture Workshop from 24 to 25 October 2017 in Leipzig. Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) within the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB), (ed.), Berlin, Bonn
2017 // Kluge, F., Teichmann, B., Arbeitsgemeinschaft Baukultur konkret: 33 Building Culture Recipes. Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) within the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB), (ed.), Berlin, Bonn, ISBN 978-3-87994-211-4
2017 // Kluge, F.: What is the benefit of project management? In: Garten und Landschaft 10/2017, p. 46-49
2017 // Beeren, W.-J., Kluge, F.: We call it process architecture. Participation in teaching and research in the Department of Architecture at Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences. In: Mensch + Architektur, 91-92/2017, pp. 44-47
2016 // Beeren, W.-J., Berding, U., Kluge, F.: Raum auf Zeit. Temporäre Gestaltungaktionen im öffentlichen Raum. Volume 4. With an introduction by Antje Havemann and a foreword by Klaus Overmeyer. Verlag Beeren, Berding, Kluge, Aachen, Erftstadt, ISBN 978-3-00-055253-3
2015 // Berding, U. Kluge, F.: The story of space for a limited time. In: pnd online II/2015: http://www.planung-neu-denken.de/images/stories/pnd/dokumente/2_2015/berding_kluge.pdf
2015 // Kluge, F.: Seven provocative theses on project management in open processes. In: Fröch, G., Gschösser, F., Brugger, W., Gächter, W. (2015): Festschrift on the occasion of the 60th birthday of Prof. Dr. Tautschnig, contributions from theory and practice, pp. 147-157.
2015 // Beeren, W.-J., Berding, U., Kluge, F.: Raum auf Zeit. Temporäre Gestaltungaktionen im öffentlichen Raum. Volume 3: Reflections – Positions – Attitudes. With contributions by eleven additional authors and a foreword by Marcelo da Veiga. Verlag Beeren, Berding, Kluge, Aachen, Erftstadt, ISBN 978-3-00-051798-3
2014 // Cârstean, A., Kluge, F.: Building culture between aspiration and reality. In: Garten und Landschaft 07/2014
2014 // Beeren, W.-J., Berding, U., Kluge, F.: Raum auf Zeit. Temporäre Gestaltungaktionen im öffentlichen Raum. Volume 2. With an introduction by Dr. Daniela Karow-Kluge and a foreword by Prof. Dr. Hille von Seggern. Verlag Beeren, Berding, Kluge, Aachen, Erftstadt; ISBN: 978-3-00-045981-8
2014 // Berding, U., Kluge, F.: Participatory art. Urban design through temporary interventions.
In: Planung Neu Denken – PNDonline I-2014 http://www.planung-neu-denken.de/content/view/290/41.
2014 // Kluge, F.: New funding format: the DVP excursion. In: Newsletter of the German Association of Project Managers in the Construction and Real Estate Industry (DVP) 01/2014, p. 2.
2013 // Kluge, F.: Technical building services as a risk factor in project implementation. Conference of the 1st Academic Association for Project Management on 16 / 17 April 2013. In: Deutsches Ingenieurblatt, DIB 7-8 2013, p. 7
2013 // Beeren, W.-J., Berding, U., Kluge, F.,: Raum auf Zeit. Temporäre Gestaltungaktionen im öffentlichen Raum. With a foreword by Klaus Selle. Verlag Beeren, Berding, Kluge, Aachen, Alfter, 136 pp., ISBN 3000433279
2013 // Berding, U., Kluge, F.,: In passing. Urban design through art actions?. In: RaumPlanung 171 / 6-2013, “Art in urban space,” pp. 126-131
2010 // Kluge, F., Lohmann, D.: Stimulus Packages. In: Ogilvie, E., Römer, J. (Ed.): Artgeo. Drive to connect the Cultural and the Natural, pp. 12-13.
2010 // Kluge, F., Valerius, M.: The mountains have been moved. The IBA Fürst-Pückler-Land. In: Garten und Landschaft 01/2010, pp. 8-13.
2009 // Kluge, F.: New network for academic project management. In: Newsletter Deutscher Verband der Projektmanager in der Bau- und Immobilienwirtschaft, DVP 03-04/2009, p. 3.
2009 // Kluge, F., Valerius, M.: Ten theses for the post-mining landscape. In: Garten und Landschaft 11/2009, p. 11.
2009 // Kluge, F., Stützel, V.: Radical Landscape Development. Cropland – Industrial Region – Nowhere Land – Tourism Landscape. In: Ghersi, A., Mazzino, F. (ed.): Landscape & Ruins. Planning and design for the regeneration of derelict places. Proceedings of the ECLAS-conference 2009 in Genova, Italy, p. 33-34 (cd: p. 51-60).
2009 // Kluge, F., Krause, C.L., Wiethoff, K.: On the trail of the system in Guangzhou. In: PLANERIN. Trade journal for urban, regional, and state planning 03/2009, pp. 50-51.
2009 // Kluge, F., Krause, C.L., Stützel, V., Wiethoff, K.: Research and teaching in the context of global urbanisation. In: Conference-Proceedings of the ECLAS-Conference 2008, September 11-14 2008 in Alnarp, Sweden, pp. 299 – 308.
2009 // Kluge, F., Krause, C.L., Wiethoff, K.: Guangzhou: Urban landscape with many facets. In: scinexx, Das Wissensmagazin, Springerverlag, Heidelberg, Online: http://www.scinexx.de/wissen-aktuell-9356-2009-01-12.html
2008 // Kluge, F., Berding, U.: The journey is the destination – university teaching between Dada, dérive, and didactics. In: dérive, Journal for Urban Research, issue 33, pp. 23-26.
2008 // Kluge, F. Wehrhahn, R., Bercht, A.L., Krause, C., Azzam, R., Strohschön, R., Wiethoff, K., Baier, K.: Urban restructuring and social and water-related vulnerability in mega-cities, Guangzhou (China). In: Die Erde, volume139 issue 3 / 2008, pp. 227-249.
2008 // Kluge, F.: Project management in architecture and landscape architecture. Exploration of practice and teaching, VDM Verlag, Saarbrücken, 512 pp, ISBN 978-3639059397.
2008 // Kluge, F.: Project management in the practice and teaching of (landscape) architecture … a little chaos is part of it. Online: http://darwin.bth.rwth-aachen.de/opus3/volltexte/2008/2442
2008 // Kluge, F., Lohmann, D.: City, country, art. The Temporary Gardens visiting Aachen. In: Garten und Landschaft 08/2008, p. 40.
2008 // Kluge, F., Wiethoff, K.: About the city around us. Villages as building blocks of the megacity. In: der architekt 03/2008, pp. 14-15.
2008 // Kluge, F., Krause, C., Wiethoff, K.: Spatial dynamics in the megacity. Structural and informal processes in Guangzhou. In: PLANERIN – Trade journal for urban, regional, and state planning 03/2008, pp. 51.-53.
2008 // Kluge, F., Feldmann, S.: Europe imagines its future: In: shift mag. Europe talks to Brussels, Online: www.shiftmag.eu, 30.01.2008
2007 // Kluge, F., Lohmann, D.: Schäl Sick Wall. In: Römer, J., Ogilvie, L.: übermnfluss. Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition “übermnfluss,” Deutz Bridge, Cologne 22.03. – 04.04.2007, Cologne, p. 19.
2007 // Kluge, F., Rose, K.: Project management (PM), Part II. The most important PM tools at a glance. In: DEGA – Dienstleistung, Magazin für Entscheider 30/2007, pp. 30-32.
2007 // Kluge, F., Rose, K.: Project management (PM), Part I. Old hat or something new yet again? In: DEGA – Dienstleistung, Magazin für Entscheider 28/2007, pp. 18-19.
2007 // Kluge, F., Lohmann, D.: Spatial art in the art space – interdisciplinary exhibition in Deutz Bridge. In: Garten und Landschaft 05/2007, p.40.
Lectures and Symposia (Selection)
22.06.26 // “Let’s talk! Creative formats for participation and co-production.” Keynote as part of the Day of Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture (“Seriously now! Making planning understandable for everyone!”) of the Chamber of Architects of Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart
05.02.26 // Conference summary and “wrap up” of the pro loco ZUsammenKUNFT in Schwerte
27.10.26 // “A slightly different kind of project development”. Lecture at HafenCity University, Faculty of Urban Planning, in Hamburg
10.09.25 // “Process Architecture: Shaping the common good together” as part of the Building Culture Workshop “Shaping the Common Good” of the Federal Foundation for Building Culture in Bonn
09.09.25 // “33 Building Culture Recipes”: Lecture as part of the event “Democracy and Spaces – 25 years of initiatives for building culture” by the Federal Ministry of Building, BBSR, and the Federal Foundation for Building Culture in Bonn.
02.07.25 // “BIM and participation.” Episode 33 of the podcast series “BIM und Bier” by Formitas AG, conversation with Roland Gruber and Falk Wagner.
25.06.25 // Transformation of the city. Lecture and percussion performance with Prof. Willem-Jan Beeren at plan zwei Stadtentwicklung, Stadtforschung, Kommunikation, on 25.06.2025 in Hanover.
21.05.25 // Building the city together! Lecture as part of the event series “Profiles of Architecture” at Koblenz University of Applied Sciences on 21.05.2025 in Koblenz.
13.05.25 // The Bergneustadt school camp: Continuing to think together! Lecture and panel participation on the theme stage “Impulses become processes! Phase Zero – How do we activate existing structures in a regional context?” of the Federal Foundation for Building Culture as part of the congress “Weiter geht’s!” of REGIONALE 2025 Bergisches Rheinland in Bergisch Gladbach.
13.02.25 // Let’s talk about participation! Lecture at Leibniz University, Faculty of Architecture and Landscape, in Hanover.
07.10.24 // Culture of participation of the future. Participation in teaching. Lecture and panel participation as part of the event series “Participation culture tomorrow – where are we heading?” by Architektur Forum Rheinland in Cologne.
07.09.2024 // Building for the common good. Panel participation at Montag Stiftung Urbane Räume in Bonn.
11.07.2024 // What makes good participation? Lecture as part of the public lecture series by Baulust – Initiative für Architektur & Öffentlichkeit e.V. in Nuremberg.
01.07.2024 // Nothing works without networks! Networking in urban development and building culture. Lecture as part of the kick-off event “Network for Sustainable Urban Development in Hesse” by Hessen Agentur in Wiesbaden.
29.05.2024 // What defines third places and why they are great. Lecture as part of the kick-off event “Third Places” of the Ministry of Culture and Science NRW in Schwerte.
25.04.2024 // The workshop and think lab. Lecture with Yann Engelen and Leon Krug at polis Werk.Stadt of the polis convention in Düsseldorf.
25.01.2024 // City makers. Aren’t we all? Lecture and panel discussion as part of the lecture series “Stadtmacher:innen” at TH Köln.
05.06.2023 // The “Third Places” funding program. Panel participation with Minister Ina Brandes as part of the “Third Places Workshop Discussion” of the CDU parliamentary group in the NRW state parliament in Düsseldorf.
15.11.2022 // The elephant in the room. Typical project mistakes and how to avoid them. Lecture and workshop together with Kerstin Asher as part of the event “42xPraktisch” in Schwerte.
17.10.2022 // Guest commentary and panel participation as part of the BDA Monday Talks “Just do it – New Public Space in Cologne” in Cologne.
05.09.2021 // Interventions to make urban spaces visible. Impulse lecture and panel discussion as part of the symposium “New Life for Shared Places” by Baukultur NRW in Düsseldorf
22.04.2021 // Baukulturregion: Vision and formats. Impulse lecture and discussion contribution as part of the event “Building Culture – Opportunity and Task in Rural Areas” by the Association of Districts and the Chamber of Architects of Rhineland-Palatinate, digital.
19.03.2021 // Temporary interventions as a means of activating citizens. Lecture as part of the “Mayors’ Brunch” of Regionale Südwestfalen 2025, digital.
16.03.2021 // Creative citizen participation – a path for real estate companies? Lecture at the vbw Association of Baden-Württemberg Housing and Real Estate Companies, digital.
02.02.2021 // Enjoyable citizen participation: the nonconform ideenwerkstatt. Lecture at the House of Architecture, digital.
12.08.2020 // Organization and moderation of the founding workshop of the Westphalia Institute of Architecture on behalf of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe and BDA Münster in Münster.
30.04.2019 // Process architecture. Collaborative urban design. Lecture as part of the course “Qualified for the Neighborhood” of Johanneswerk Bielefeld.
14.12.2018 // Process design between science, professional practice, and the art scene. Lecture at the German Academy for Urban and Regional Planning (DASL), NRW regional group, in Düsseldorf.
20./21.04.2018 // Baukultur konkret. Projects and formats. Lecture as part of the third Hessian Day of Building Culture of the State Initiative +Baukultur in Hessen in Fulda
18.04.2018 // Activating citizens through temporary interventions. Lecture as part of the competition procedure “Take a Seat” of the City of Wolfsburg in Wolfsburg.
07.03.2018 // Participation 2.0: Citizens involve citizens. Lecture as part of the event “40 x practical” by Montag Stiftung Urbane Räume, the “Initiative ergreifen” program, and Rohrmeisterei Schwerte in Schwerte.
07.03.2018 // Simply try it out – Temporarily designing public spaces. Lecture as part of the event “40 x practical” by Montag Stiftung Urbane Räume, the “Initiative ergreifen” program, and Rohrmeisterei Schwerte in Schwerte.
07.03.2018 // Reaching the public quickly and easily. Lecture as part of the event “40 x practical” by Montag Stiftung Urbane Räume, the “Initiative ergreifen” program, and Rohrmeisterei Schwerte in Schwerte.
24./25.10.2017 // Open Building Culture Workshop. Civic engagement for the place. Organization and moderation of the workshop on behalf of the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) in Leipzig
15.09.2017 // IPA Symposium Process Architecture. Organization, management, and moderation of a symposium of the Institute for Process Architecture in Alfter
12.10.2017 // Process architecture, what, how, why? Lecture as part of the “KAP Forum on Tour” in Alfter.
02.09.2017 // Keep it simple, stupid! Building culture actions on site. Lecture as part of “Stadtgespräche NRW” by StadtBauKultur NRW in cooperation with Freiraum Weberplatz Essen in Essen.
17.02.2017 // Shaping processes together in planning, research, and practice. Lecture as part of the kick-off event “Building Culture in Practice” of the Federal Foundation for Building Culture and its support association at the German Architecture Museum (DAM) in Frankfurt am Main.
02.02.2017 // Building culture and tourism. Cooperation in the region. (ExWoSt – BBSR research field). Moderation of the kick-off event of the research project in Arnsberg (Westphalia).
03 – 06/2017 // Bonn Places. See. Differently. Concept, organization, and moderation of a lecture series of the Bonner Generalanzeiger. Four events between April and June 2017 in Bonn and the surrounding area. In cooperation with Prof. Benedikt Stahl, Montag Stiftung Urbane Räume, M:AI, and KVB AG.
12.04.2016 // Temporary interventions as a means of citizen participation. Lecture as part of the citizen participation process “Lörrach gestalten. Gemeinsam” in Lörrach.
02.12.2015 // RAUMaufZEIT. Temporary interventions in science communication. Lecture together with Dr. Ulrich Berding as part of the 8th Forum Wissenschaftskommunikation in Nuremberg.
16.06.2014 // RAUMaufZEIT. Temporary interventions in public space. Lecture with Prof. Willem-Jan Beeren as part of the Open Forum Participation in/through Art” on the topic “Watching? Joining in! Social participation through art” in Alfter.
04.09.2014 // Impulses for building culture in rural areas. Lecture and workshop moderation as part of the network conference “Construction cranes in the belly. Volunteer engagement for communicating building culture” by StadtBauKulturNRW, in Solingen. In cooperation with Roland Gruber.
09.04.2014 // Building culture through temporary interventions. The project “kistenweise.” Lecture as part of the final presentation of the BBSR research project “Building Culture in Practice” in Paderborn.
26.09.2013 // “As usual?” – Perspectives for housing construction along the railway line in Bonn. Lecture at the opening of the exhibition of the same name by the Association of German Architects (BDA) Bonn/Rhein-Sieg at the Bonn Museum of Art in Bonn.
05.06.2013 // Architecture – without open space nothing is whole. Lecture as part of the Wednesday Forum at Alanus University on the topic “Space is the only reality – architecture as a whole” in Alfter
23.11.2012 // Process models in crisis management.Lecture and workshop moderation as part of the GPM conference “Project management in non-profit organizations. Impulses from extreme and crisis situations” in Alfter.
12.04.2011 // The studio aachen nord. Lecture in the Aachen Nord working group in Aachen.
25.04.2009 // Revitalization of the village center: near-natural design possibilities. Lecture as part of the second future workshop of the citizens of Mulartshütte in Mulartshütte.
24.04.2009 // Possibilities of enhancing the academic profile of the discipline landscape architecture. Appointment lecture at Wageningen University as part of the appointment procedure for the Chair of Landscape Architecture in Wageningen, the Netherlands.
27.03.2009 // Project management in architecture and landscape architecture. Exploration of practice and teaching. Lecture as part of the conference of the German Association of Project Managers in the Construction and Real Estate Industry (DVP) on the topic of project management in the tension field of the financial crisis, in Berlin.
26.01.2009 // EcoVillage. Des approches durables de planification architecturale paysagiste et des options opératoires pour le village Kuarho, Côte d’ Ivoire. Lecture as part of the second DAAD Alumni Winter School of Université de Cocody (Abidjan, Ivory Coast), Abobo-Adjamé (Abidjan, Ivory Coast), and RWTH on the topic Consolider la paix et le développement en Côte d’Ivoire, in Aachen.
25.09.2008 // Argumentation, presentation, and rhetoric: Lecture for the working group of urban planning trainees at the District Government of Cologne, in Aachen.
11.-14.09.2008 // Research and teaching in the context of global urbanization. Poster presentation as part of the ECLAS conference “New landscapes – new lives. New challenges in landscape planning, design and management”, in Alnarp, Sweden.
28.-29.02.2008 // Analysis of Informal Dynamics in Mega Urban Areas. Based on the spatial structure and steering mechanisms focused on water in the Pearl River Delta. Poster presentation as part of the 1st Landscape Research Forum in Kassel.
21.01.2008 // EcoCampus. Des options d‘actions et des stratégies urbanistiques et architecturales paysagistes pour le campus de l‘Université de Cocody. Lecture as part of the DAAD Alumni Winter School of Université de Cocody (Abidjan, Ivory Coast), Abobo-Adjamé (Abidjan, Ivory Coast), and RWTH in Aachen.
28.-29.01.2008 // Analysis of Informal dynamics in Mega urban Areas. Based on the spatial structure and steering mechanisms focused on water in the Pearl River Delta. Poster presentation as part of the academic colloquium of the DFG priority program ‘Megacities – Megachallenge’ in Berlin.
Memberships
Since 2022 // Member of the association Baukultur Nordrhein-Westfalen
Since 2022 // Member of the support association of the Federal Foundation for Building Culture
Since 2022 // Member of the Conference of Deans and Heads of Department for Architecture, Spatial Planning, and Landscape Architecture in the Federal Republic of Germany
Since 2019 // Appointed member of the German Academy for Urban and Regional Planning (DASL), NRW regional group
Since 2018 // Founding member of Netzwerk Immovielien e.V., member of the advisory board
Since 2016 // Founding member and head of the Institute for Process Architecture (IPA) in the Department of Architecture at Alanus University
Since 2012 // Member of the German Association for Project Management in the Construction and Real Estate Industry (DVP) e.V.; since 2014 member of the jury for the DVP Advancement Award
Since 2011 // Specialist juror in various landscape architecture and urban planning competitions
Since 2009 // Founding member of the 1st Academic Association for Project Management (1WVPM), 2013 – 2019: Second Deputy Chair and Academic Director
2003- 2019 // German Project Management Association; founding member of the working group “Project Management at Universities” (2010 – 2019)
Since 2003 // Landscape architect, Chamber of Architects NRW
Awards and Honors
2009 // Advancement Award of the German Association of Project Managers in the Construction and Real Estate Industry (DVP), 2nd prize
2009 // Awarded the Borchers Medal of RWTH Aachen
2005, 2006, 2007 and 2012 // Scholarship holder of the European Forum Alpbach, Building Culture Talks
