- Address
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A5.405
Am Hofgarten 6
85354 Freising - Institut
- Institute of Ecology and Landscape
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Motivation
I dedicate my work to the development of new forms of design work through design-orientated participation.
In my work as a landscape architect, I have found that neighbourhoods, parks, squares or villages that emerge through co-creative processes become important places for sustainable development in public space.
Design-orientated planning methods invite people to combine creativity, cognitive skills, physical experience and emotions. In this way, more can be learnt about the narratives of a place that give rise to appropriate ideas. I am convinced that design-orientated forms of participation involving all stakeholders lead to coherent solutions that make spatial, social and economic sense.
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Bachelor programme
- 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 Landscape Design 1 study project, 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 open space planning 2 study project, 7th semester LA
- Communication in the study project Landscape Architecture 4, 7th semester LA
- Design-orientated participation in planning, compulsory elective module, 7th semester LA and LBM
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Master's programme
- Work Methodology in the module „Planning and Project Management I“
- Project Communication in the „Planning and Project Management II“ module
- More at www.imla-campus.eu
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Professional activity
- Since September 2020 Professor for Communication & Participation in Landscape Architecture at the University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan Triesdorf
- Since 2008 Partner of the Institute for Participatory Design GmbH (IPG), Oldenburg and Berlin (co-founder). Focus on design-orientated 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 fields of participation, open space design and landscape development
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Voluntary work
- Member of the advisory board of the Gartow October Talks
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Awards for projects
- Silver Buffalo (2023) Silver Buffalo 2nd prize overall and special prize on the topic of „Networking“ for the student project „Löwentorplatz“. Federal Landscape Student Council, BuFaLa.
- European Village Renewal Award (2021). Municipality of Oberndorf-Oste. Gold award for holistic, sustainable village development of outstanding quality under the motto „Local answers to global challenges“. The jury was particularly impressed by the process culture in Oberndorf, which forms the basis for all development and investments. „Oberndorf is characterised by a renewal process that is based on professionally supported participation according to a pronounced bottom-up principle and pursues the goal of the best possible resilience of the community“. My role: Participatory village planner for eleven years.
- 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 conceived and implemented by IPG - one of them the „Fliegerhorst Oldenburg“ project, which I played a key role in designing.
- Innovation Award „Our Village has a Future“ (2015) Special prize in the „Our Village has a Future“ competition 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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ERASMUS projects
Publications
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Magazine articles
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Book chapters
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Conference contributions
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Talks and presentations
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Other publications
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Media reports