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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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  • The Favela as Figure

    Colonialist Afterlives and Urbanism's Technocratic Aesthetics in 1920s Rio de Janeiro

    Lecture Series

    10. November 2025Friederike Weidner

    Lecture by Prof. Dr. Adrian Anagnost, 10 December 2025, 7 - 8:30 p.m., at Deutsches Architekturmuseum

  • (Zionist) Coloniality Under (British) Colonialism

    The architectural and warfare modernism of Yohanan (Eugene) Ratner in Mandatory Palestine

    Lecture Series

    27. October 2025Friederike Weidner

    Lecture by Prof. Dr. Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, 4 February 2026, 7 - 8:30 p.m., at Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM)

  • Call for Contributions

    Visualising Health Equity for Urban Planning

    Open Call

    22. October 2025Friederike Weidner

    A "Cities & Health" special issue, led by guest editor Prof. Dr. Martin Knöll (Technical University of Darmstadt), calls for innovative contributions.

  • Political Resonances of Spatial Configuration

    PhD Projects
    Spatial configuration shapes co-presence in Berlin's public spaces.

  • Spaces of Appearance

    Aesthetics and Politics After Analogy

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

  • Bauhaus Clouds

    Challenges to the Nebula of Architectural Histories and Archives

    publication

  • Lore Graf

    PhD Candidates
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  • Demolition and Protest in Frankfurt’s Westend

    The Role of Monument Preservation in the 1970s Discourse on the Urban Development of the Gründerzeit District

    PhD Projects
    "Black flag demonstration" by the Westend Association against real estate speculation and house demolition in the Westend, August 1970: People with black flags in front of a covered house.

  • In Search of the Lost Image

    (Post-)Soviet Metageography between Critical Postmodern Humanism and Neoliberal Spatial Development (1960s–2020s)

    PhD Projects
    Boris Rodoman, “Polarized Biosphere,” 30.3.1973. Paper, mixed media, 132 × 168 cm. © Boris Rodoman

  • Fanti Baum

    PhD Candidates
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  • (Re-)Making Sense of Socio-Ecological Transformations

    New and Old Inequalities in the Local Renegotiation of Global Concepts for Urban Development Projects

    Postdoc Projects
    Future Area of "Stadtteil der Quartiere"; Tree in front of Frankfurt Skyline in the Background

  • Prof. Dr. Christiane Salge

    Principal Investigators
    Christiane Salge, Photo: Uwe Dettmar

  • Prof. Dr. Alla Vronskaya

    Principal Investigators
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  • 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

  • Katharina Marschall

    Associates
    Portrait of Katharina Marschall

  • Prof. Dr. Susanne Heeg

    Principal Investigators
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  • Dr. Christian Rosen 

    Postdocs
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  • Everyday housing issues. On privatisation, refurbishment and protest

    Exhibition
    Video of Dhara Patel at STADTLABOR

    13. August 2025Friederike Weidner

    Exhibition at the CITY LAB, Historical Museum Frankfurt, 18 June 2025 to 1 February 2026, with Dr. Dhara Patel

  • Planning to Fail?

    International Law and the Spatial Organization of Territories

    PhD Projects
    Core house in Ghana

  • Dr. Dhara Patel

    Associates
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  • Rev. Kudawawe Somananda Thero

    PhD Candidates
    Somananda Thero, Photo: Uwe Dettmar

  • PD Dr. Peter Collin

    Principal Investigators
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  • 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)

  • Manuela Camargo de Assis

    PhD Candidates
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