Two research groups structure the work at the chair.
Architecture, Spatial Dynamics and Urban Transformation
Our research is focused on how architecture, understood both as discipline and as outcome of practice, contributes to spatial dynamics triggering fundamental changes to urban conditions. We often find our research implicated in critically probing how the urban as a socio-cultural, economic and spatial condition can be designed. Underlying the work of our group is an emphasis on the particular epistemological practices of architecture, where design as a cognitive tool connects futures thinking with systems thinking. Multi-scalar impact consideration of architecture guides our research, whether it is about star architecture and the repositioning of cities, the interplays between architecture and media, analyzing the changing patterns of spatial use with a focus on corporate locations or the role of spatial design methods in urban transformation processes.
The research group "Land Use, Infrastructure, Spatial Transformation" deals with three constitutive elements of spatial development and their interactions: (1) the abstract-general legal and political framework for land use, (2) the spatially concrete structuring Influences of public and private infrastructures, and (3) the transformative actions of private actors - households and companies - in relation to space. The three corresponding, overarching research topics of land policies and planning, infrastructure and economic geography stand for the basic competencies and interests of the researchers involved in spatial development on different scales. Their intersections result in research priorities and thus concrete research projects, publications and courses. The research topics are also understood against the background of the process of increasing digitalisation and the goal of resource-efficient and socially balanced spatial development, which can be applied to all research topics.
Topic: Raising awareness of the new functional and political significance of metropolitan regions, pooling various analytical and visual expertise.
Brief description: Metropolitan regions are of strategic importance for the economic, social and cultural development of a country. As large-scale, abstract entities, however, they often remain invisible to the relevant…
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Abstract: The rapidly growing demand for air transport services is leading to a continuous expansion of air transport infrastructure. In Germany, plans are currently underway to expand the major airports of Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich, among others. Such expansion processes are accompanied by fierce protests from people living in the vicinity of the airports, the…
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Topic: The research project aims to investigate the functional, non-physical relationships established by the activities of companies in the knowledge economy, both quantitatively and qualitatively, from a spatial perspective.
Brief description: The study examines the location interdependencies of the knowledge economy in the Munich Metropolitan Region. The central…
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Topic: Evaluation of PERSPECTIVE MUNICH as a comprehensive and integrating orientation framework for Munich's urban development. Evaluation of the impact and implementation status of the strategic guidelines and lead projects of PERSPEKTIVE MUNICH in economic, social and planning thematic fields of urban development
Brief description: Derivation of significant future…
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Topic: Development of recommendations for cooperation in the Munich area
Brief description: The analysis of cooperation in the four German metropolitan regions of Hamburg, Rhine-Neckar, Stuttgart and Nuremberg along the genesis of strategies, structures and culture of the respective cooperation provides the basis for recommendations. The "image of the metropolitan…
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