Prof. Sonja Hörster

I dedicate my work to the development of new forms of design work through design-oriented participation.

In my work as a landscape architect, I have experienced that neighbourhoods, parks, squares or villages that emerge through co-creative processes become important places for sustainable development in public space.

Design-oriented planning methods invite people to combine creativity, cognitive skills, body experience and emotions. In this way, more can be learned about the narratives of a place that give rise to appropriate ideas. I am convinced that design-oriented forms of participation involving all stakeholders lead to coherent solutions that make spatial, social and economic sense.

• Participation in the module "Planning & Design in Spatial Planning", 2nd semester LA
• Participation in the module "Planning & Design in Landscape Planning", 3rd semester LA
• Participation in the study project "Landscaping 1", 3rd semester LBM
• Citizen participation in urban planning in the module "Planning & Design in Urban Planning", 4th semester LA
• Participation in the module "Landscape Planning", 4th semester LA
• Practical courses, 5th semester LA and LBM
• Urban design & communication in the study project "Open Space Planning 2", 7th semester LA
• Communication in the study project Landscape Planning 4, 7th semester LA
• Design-oriented participation in planning, compulsory elective module, 7th semester LA and LBM

• Work Methodology in the module "Planning and Project Management I
• Project Communication in the module "Planning and Project Management II
• More at www.imla-campus.eu

• Since September 2020 Professor for Communication & Participation in Landscape Architecture at the University of applied sciences Weihenstephan Triesdorf.
• Since 2008 partner of the Institut für Partizipatives Gestalten GmbH (IPG), Oldenburg and Berlin (co-founder). Focus on design-oriented participation in planning. Numerous practical projects as well as research, teaching and lectures. More at www.partizipativ-gestalten.de
• 2002-2008 Managing Director of DIE PLANUNGSWERKSTATT, Freising (founder)
• 1995-2010 Lecturer at the Permaculture Academy
• 1993-2002 Freelance projects in the field of participation, open space design and landscape development

• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Cocreation Foundation
• Member of the advisory board of the Gartow October Talks
• Member of the Advisory Board of Netzwerk Baukultur in Niedersachsen

• Hans Sauer Prize (2018): Designing Futures. Social Labs in Europe. Award for the project "Wir Oberndorfer".
• German Landscape Architecture Award (2017): Nomination for the project "Alte Mitte - neue Liebe" Berlin in the category "Participation & Landscape Architecture.
• Model Municipality Open Government (2017): Award for the city of Oldenburg by the Federal Ministry of the Interior BMI on the basis of two projects designed and implemented by IPG - one of them the project "Fliegerhorst Oldenburg", which I was instrumental in designing.
• Innovation Award "Our Village has a Future" (2015) Special award of the competition "Our Village has a Future" for the village development of Oberndorf.
• Gottfried Kühn Prize for Landscape Architecture in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland (2009) Award for the Anger Dudweiler - Saarbrücken project for outstanding participation and open space planning.

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