Network

Senior Lecturer, Department of Information Technologies in Architecture, Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture; Postdoctoral Visiting Researcher, Institute for Design Strategies (IDS), Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences and Arts (TH OWL) (Germany/Ukraine)

Fields of Expertise:

• Urban Resilience
• Transformations in Post-Soviet Large-Scale Housing Estates
• Blue-Green Infrastructure in Residential Areas

Research Fellow, Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, Germany

Fields of Expertise:

• post-war reconstruction
• coming to terms with the past after war and dictatorship
• transitional justice
• political emotions
• memory practices
• the relationship between memory and urban space

Research Fellow, Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, Germany

Fields of Expertise:

• post-war reconstruction
• coming to terms with the past after war and dictatorship
• transitional justice
• political emotions
• memory practices
• the relationship between memory and urban space

Associate Professor, Department of Architecture of Buildings and Structures (OSACEA) Odesa (Ukraine)

Fields of Expertise: 

• Problems of regenerating historic urban fabric and preserving architectural and urban-planning heritage sites

Senior Researcher and Associate Professor, Università degli Studi di Tor Vergata (Rome)

Fields of Expertise:

• EU policies and their impacts on cities and territories

Associate Researcher, Lab'URBA, Paris // PhD in Geography, Université Lumière Lyon 2

Fields of Expertise:

• urban studies
• large housing estates
• (post-)Soviet residential areas
• wartime urban planning

Planungsbüro Hamann + Krah

Fields of expertise:

• urban development
• urban design
• urban planning law

Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the German Foundation for Monument Protection, Honorary President of ICOMOS Germany, Honorary Professor of TU Berlin, Expert for 20th century heritage

Fields of Expertise:

• Urban Heritage Conservation Management
• Dissonant Heritage
• Ambivalent Modern Movement

Managing Director, Housing Initiative for Eastern Europe (Initiative Wohnungswirtschaft Osteuropa (IWO) e.V.) Berlin (Germany)

Fields of Expertise:

• Housing Policy
• Energy-Efficient Buildings
• Eastern Europe Development

Director of the architecture and urban planning office RETHINK; lecturer at the Paris-La Villette School of Architecture.

Field of Expertise:

• Design and construction in existing contexts, and French-German collaborations

Kompetenzzentrum Großsiedlungen e.V. , Berlin, Germany

Fields of Expertise:

• renewal of big post-war housing estates
• social management of neigbourhoods
• occupancy policies and social segregation

Johannes Kepler University Linz

Fields of Expertise:

• transformation and transition studies
• comparative and transregional history
• history of regional and urban development
• heritage and uses of the past

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Fields of Expertise:

• Urban Heritage
• Planning and policy
• Transnational architecture and urbanism

Postdoctoral researcher, Social Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University (Finland), Social Policy, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki (Finland)

Fields of Expertise:

• urban home-making
• Soviet and post-Soviet mobilities
• pratices of hope
• migrant entrepreneurship

Art Station Gallery, Silk Road International University, Samarkand, Uzbekistan

Fields of Expertise:

• Post-socialist mass housing transformation and urban heritage in Central Asia, with a focus on social change, everyday practices and transformation of urban heritage

Associate Professor, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

Fields of Expertise:

• urban planning
• sustainable architecture
• urban history in the 20th century

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Fields of Expertise:

• Urbanity in Central Asia and the Caucasus

Associate Professor, the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Fields of Expertise:

• Architectural theory
• theoretical heritage of Soviet avant-garde in architecture
• Soviet avant-garde architectural heritage
• architectural and urban development in in China

Junior Research Fellow, The Centre for Landscape and Culture, Tallinn University, Estonia

Fields of Expertise:

• industrial landscapes
• dissonant heritage
• artistic research

Municipal architect of the city of Kolín, Czechia

Fields of Expertise:

• Urban design
• Urban planning
• Urban regeneration

Assistant Professor, Department of Political and Historical Geography and Regional Studies, University of Lodz / Research Fellow, GWZO Leipzig

Fields of Expertise:

• historical and urban geography
• settlement morphology
• heritage studies

TU Darmstadt, Faculty of Architecture, Darmstadt, Germany

Fields of Expertise:

• Urban renewal & transformation with a focus on post-industrial contexts
• strategic long-term planning
• sustainability and resilience
• cultural heritage and sense of place
• human-centered, inclusive urban environments

Department of Landscape Studies, University of Turku (Finland/Ukraine)

Fields of Expertise:

• Placemaking
• Urban Sustainability
• Landscape and Urban Studies

Research Fellow, University of Belgrade, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Laboratory for Theory, Creation and Politics of Space (PerspectLab)

Fields of Expertise:

• architectural anthropology
• dwelling and homemaking practices
• urban self-management

Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Geology, Yerevan State University; Founder, urbanlab, Armenia

Fields of Expertise:

• post-socialist cities
• cultural landscape protection
• valorisation of modernist heritage

Institute of Sociology at the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, Department of Regional and Urban Studies Vilnius, Lithuania

Fields of Expertise:

• urban and regional geography
• urban shrinkage
• gentrification

Professor at Department of Urban Planning, Odesa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture (OSACEA), Odesa (Ukraine)

Fields of Expertise:

• Sustainable development of urban territories and the transformation of the post-Soviet architectural and urban-planning environment

Doctoral Candidate, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Fields of Expertise:

• European urban and intellectual history ("long" 20th century)
• architecture and urban planning
• historical heritage and legacies

Department of Construction, Architecture and Design, Kherson State Agrarian and Economic University (Ukraine)

Fields of Expertise:

• Modernist Architectural Heritage
• Constructivist Urban Form
• Transformation of the 20th-Century Urban Environment

Senior researcher, Scientific secretary of the Institute of Industrial Economics of National academy of sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

Fields of Expertise:

• sustainable development of industrial regions

Assistant professor in Heritage & Architecture, TU Delft

Fields of Expertise:

• housing heritage
• neighborhood renovation
• building systems and intervention methods

Managing Director, Metropolitan Research Institute, Budapest

Fields of Expertise:

• adaptive heritage reuse
• housing policy
• energy refurbishments

Assistant Professor at the Chair of Applied Sociology, Faculty of Sociology, Yerevan State University

Fields of Expertise:

• post-industrial urban transformations
• shrinking cities
• socio-spatial change in the post-Soviet context

Head of the Chair of Theory and History of Sociology, Yerevan State University

Fields of Expertise:

• ideological and cultural transformations of urban space
• the crisis of social identities
• the evolving narratives of place in post-socialist cities

The American University of Rome Graduate Program in Cultural Heritage / Department of Archaeology and Classics
Johns Hopkins University Graduate Program in Cultural Heritage Management

Fields of Expertise:

• cultural heritage
• urban planning
• preservation/conservation
• architectural history
• Caucasus region
• modern architecture
• Soviet history

Postdoctoral Researcher, Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU)

Fields of Expertise:

• housing policies
• urban regeneration
• adaptive reuse

Senior Research Fellow, Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde, Leipzig, Germany

Fields of Expertise:

• urban studies
• digitalization in urban spaces
• ruptured cities