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ANDREA HEINING
23/Berlin/ Radebeul
Education:
Abitur Coswig, 1997
1997-present: Technische Universität Berlin, Institute for City and Regional Planning
2000-2001 exchange year: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm: Master program for Spatial Planning
Special interests in planning:
Redevelopment, planning in NIC, regional cooperation and networks, collaborative planning
Participate in the Entertaining Cities Studio to learn about:
To learn about the influence of entertainment on the development of cities both in Germany and the U.S. and the different points of view on its effects.
Practical experience:
At present: Student Employee Redevelopment Agency (STEG) Berlin
2001-2002: Internship Topos (Office for Landscape and Urban Planning, Urban Research)
2001: Student Employee Redevelopment Agency (STEG)
1998: Internship Governmental Presidency Dresden - Spatial Planning Department
Other interests:
Travelling, sports (swimming, hiking), relaxing
Languages:
German, English, Russian, Swedish
ANDREAS LINDERMEIER
"a ship in the harbour is safe, but it's not what ships are made for"
31/Berlin-Friedrichshain/Gütersloh
Education:
Abitur Gütersloh, 1991
Practical experience:
Studied biology in 1993 in Leipzig
Technical University Berlin since 1998, Institute for City and Regional Planning
2002-2004: Research assistant for the European project ENTRUST- Empowering Neighbourhood Through Recourse of Urban Synergies with Trades at the Institute of Sociology, TU Berlin
Since 1998: PlaNet- the European Student Planning Network, congress organisation
1997/98: Sous Chef and Head Chef, Queens Hotel Brighton, UK
1994-97: Apprenticeship in chefing, InterContinental Hotels Berlin
1992: Store administrator, Compact Disc Production, Bertelsmann, Gütersloh,
Special interests in planning:
Socioeconomic cooperation, local economies, European planning, governance, international exchange, sustainable planning, alternative mobility
Participate in the Entertaining Cities Studio to learn about:
Development of the city and its neighbourhoods through entertainment, non-commercial leisure activities, effects of entertainment on society
Other interests:
Politics, food & beverage, urban biking, frisbee, wind surfing, German football , Berlin, music
Languages:
German, English
BARBARA SCHÖNIG
27/Neustadt/Weinstr./Berlin
Education:
Abitur Neustadt Weinstr., 1994
1994 – 1996
Humboldt-University (Berlin): Student at the Departments of New German
Literature and History of Art
1996 – 1997 Ohio State University, Columbus OH, USA:
Graduate Student at the Departement of Germanic Languages and Literature
1997 – 2001 Humboldt-University / Technical University (Berlin): Graduate Student at the Department of New German Literature (Humboldt-University) and at the Department of History of Art (Technical University)
2002 M.A. in New
German Literature and History of Art
Since 1997 Technical University Berlin, Technical University Berlin since
1997, Institute for City and Regional Planning. At present graduate student.
Special interests in planning:
Urban sociology,
architecture and aesthetics, sprawl in Germany and the U.S., regional
planning, New Urbanism,
Participate in the Entertaining Cities Studio to learn about:
- recent developments in entertainment and their impact on the social, economic and political structure of cities
- evaluating the actual chances and dangers that entertainment, as one of the important growth sectors in post-fordist society, offers to cities
- finding a way to
deal with the need for entertainment in cities in a socially, aesthetically
and environmentally sustainable way
Practical experience:
Work experience:
Oct. 2002 – March 2003 Research Staff Member of the „Ladenburg Kolleg“ (Interdisciplinary research project on sprawl)
2001- Oct. 2002 Teaching Assistant at the Institute for Architectural Sociology, Technical University Berlin
2000-2001 Research Assistant at the Department for New German Literature, Humboldt-University (Berlin); Member for the editorial group of the plays written by the East German writer Heiner Müller
1998-2000 Teaching Assistant at the Institute for Architectural Sociology, Technical University Berlin
1996/1997 Teaching
Assistant at Ohio State University, Columbus OH (German 101-104) and at the
Dresden Summer School Program of the OSU
Internships:
Summer 1998 Bauhaus Dessau, worked on a project on Brownfield-Redevlopment „Industrielles Gartenreich“
Winter 1995 Memorial Sachsenhausen (NS-Concentration Camp in Oranienburg, near Berlin)
Summer 1994
Theatre Frankfurt/Main; Assistant to the director at the production of
Bertolt Brecht’s Three Penny Opera
Political Experiences:
2002 – present General Secretary of the European Network of Democratic Young Left (ENDYL)
2000-2002 Member
of the National Board of Young Democrats/Young Left (party-independent,
left-wing youth organization), International Secretary
Other interests:
Fine arts,
literature (specially East German literature), movies, architecture (Rudolf
Schindler, Alvar Aalto, Rem Koolhaas and Herzog & de Meuron)
Languages:
German, English, French
BENJAMIN HERKOMMER
23/Berlin/ Berlin
Education:
Abitur Berlin, 1998
Technische Universität Berlin since 1998, Institute for City and Regional Planning
At present: graduate student 4th year
Special interests in planning:
Postmodernism in architecture and urban development, relations of urban time and spatial structures, residential segregation, new urbanism
Participate in the Entertaining Cities Studio to learn about:
The predominant role of entertainment related projects in recent urban development, to find out about different scientific approaches towards commercialized entertainment, to see how Berlin and Los Angeles inhabitants differ in their approaches to entertainment and cultural activities and how the character of the two cities influences these approaches.
Practical experience:
Research for one and a half years (German Institute of Urban Affairs and Technical University of Berlin)
Other interests:
member of the international student planning network PlaNet: organization of a yearly congress, of small workshops and exchange programs for students of urban planning and architecture from all over the world
Languages:
German, English
CAROLINE DÉPIERRE
24/Berlin/Chambéry (France)
Education:
High School Diploma Grenoble (France), 1996
Master’s degree in Politics in Grenoble, 2000
1998-99: exchange-student at Konstanz University, Germany, Faculty of Politics
2000-2002: postgraduate student at the French Institute for Town and Regional Planning in Paris
At present graduate student at the Technical University Berlin, Institute for City and Regional Planning
Special interests in planning:
Urban sociology, project management (especially in an international context), town marketing
Participate in the Entertaining Cities Studio to learn about:
Interested in the intercultural aspect of the project and in the topic “Enternaining cities” because of the importance of entertainment in international competition among cities
Practical experience:
2001-2002: 5 months internship in a branch of the SNCF (French railway company). Worked on projects dealing with railway stations and railway station-areas.
Other interests:
Basketball, hiking, skiing
Languages:
French (native tongue), German, English
CHRISTOPH PIENKOSS
28/Berlin/Düsseldorf
Education:
Abitur, Düsseldorf, 1993
Paramedic 1994,
Carpenter 1997,
Technische Universität Berlin since 1997, Institute for City and Regional Planning
Special interests in planning:
Planning theory, regional planning, urban economics, urban networks
Participate in the Entertaining Cities Studio to learn about:
There is no perspective that we might steer back towards a society with less focus on leisure, entertainment and fun
Practical experience:
Internship and job concerned with tourism in the Baltic Sea Region; Urban development in an area of decreasing population
Other interests:
Music; clubs; sports; movies; politics
Languages:
German, English, Swedish, French
ETIENNE FÖRSTER
28/Berlin/ Berlin
Education:
Abitur, Berlin, 1994
Technische Universität Berlin since 1997, Institute for City and Regional Planning
At present:
graduate student 5th year
Special Interests in Planning:
Transportation
systems, decision-making processes in planning, CCTV, sustainable
development, “festivalization”, suburbanization
Participating in the Entertaining Cities studio to learn about:
- Decision-making
processes
- Entertainment-Issue for Berlin?
- Learning process from Los Angeles
- Los Angeles’ handling with entertainment
Other interests:
- Music (rock,
classic, drum'n bass)
- Exhibitions (all kinds of art)
- Land-Art
- Sports (soccer, beach volleyball, windsurfing)
- Performance
- Theatre
Practical experience:
- practical course
in an urban planning agency
- first prize in an "action-competition": cultural-check (rough draft and
realization)
- two time winner of competition concerning sustainable development
(revitalization of a port area)
Languages:
German, English
GABRIELE ANNEMARIE FOHR
27/Berlin/Lahnstein
Education:
Abitur, Lahnstein, 1994
1995-96: University of Bonn (Law)
Technische Universität Berlin since 1996, Institute for City and Regional Planning
Special interests in planning:
Promotion of innovation and research, regional development
Participate in the Entertaining Cities Studio to learn about:
Formation of the character of cities
Other interests:
Arts, music, sports (sailing, volleyball)
Languages:
English, Latin, French, Italian (some)
JAKOB HURRLE
26/Berlin/Freiburg im Breisgau
Education:
Abitur Freiburg, 1996
Student at the Institute for Eastern European Studies at Berlin Free University since 1998
Student at the Institute for City and Regional Planning at Technische Universität Berlin since 1999
2001-02: Guest student at Warsaw State University (Poland)
Special interests in planning:
Urban sociology, sustainable development, planning in an international context
Participate in the Entertaining Cities Studio to learn about:
„Entertaining Cities“ interests me because the provision of culture and entertainment are not only basic functions of metropolitain areas, but also of growing importance as economic factors
Practical experience:
Spring 2002: Polish country monitor for the European Roma Right Centre, Budapest
Since 2000: publisher of PLOTKI, a Czech-Polish-German student magazine
2000: Internship at the Department for Strategic City Development in Prague and in a NGO which lobbies against urban sprawl in Central and Eastern Europe
1996- 1998: project co-ordinator in a Human Right’s NGO in Czech Republic
Other interests:
Literature, politics, cinema, nature
Languages:
German, English, Czech, Polish, French
JOHANNES NOVY
24/Berlin/Cologne
Education:
Abitur, Cologne, 1998
Technische Universität Berlin since 1999, Institute for City and Regional Planning
At present: graduate student, 3rd year
Special interests in planning:
Planning theory, urban sociology
Participate in the Entertaining Cities Studio to learn about:
„Entertaining Cities“ interests me because of the growing importance of the entertainment and amusement sector in the (future tourist?) city of Berlin
Practical experience:
Student employee of the Urban Sociology department at Technische Universität Berlin
Other interests:
Theatre, politics, clubbing
Languages:
German, English, French
JOHANNES TASGARA
27/Berlin Kreuzberg / Aira (Ethiopia)
Education:
Abitur, Hermannsburg, 1994
Technical University Berlin since 1997, Institute for City and Regional Planning
At present: Graduate student, 3rd year
Special interests in planning:
Urban design, New urbanism, planning in an international context, social science in the field of planning.
Participate in the Entertaining Cities Studio to learn about:
I am participating in this project to learn about the functions, situation and development of urban entertainment in Berlin and Los Angeles.
In my eyes this exchange programme is a good opportunity to get an idea of planning practice and policy in Los Angeles.
Other interests:
Skateboarding, working in a clothing store (Carhartt), Berlin`s nightlife
Languages:
Native German, English
MANUELA SIENER
26/Berlin/ Ludwigshafen
Education:
Abitur, Annweiler, 1997
1997: started studies of cultural sciences at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt / Oder.
Technische Universität Berlin since 1999, Institute for City and Regional Planning
Special interests in planning:
planning theory; interdependencies between politics and planning; governance and steering theories; institutionalist approaches towards spatial development
Participate in the Entertaining Cities Studio to learn about:
- interest in deeper insights into the relationship between entertainment and city / regional development;
- interest in different strategic approaches to deal with entertainment as a planning subject / challenge
Practical experience:
Position at the TU Berlin since 2001 (department of planning theory)
Several internships in public and private institutions;
Three years at the Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning for three years (mainly dealing with the implications of a forthcoming EU Directive on existing spatial management structures);
Other interests:
Arts, cinema
Languages:
German, English, French
MARC ALTENBURG
26/Berlin/Münster
Education:
Abitur Steinfurt, 1995
1996-97: student in spatial
planning at the University of Dortmund
Technical University Berlin since 1997, Institute for City and Regional
Planning
Special interests in planning:
Applications of information and
communication technologies in urban planning; Impacts of new technologies on
spatial order; ”Urban Regions” – spatial concepts
and management possibilities
Simulation and modelling of the city and the region
Participate in the Entertaining Cities Studio to learn about:
To have the opportunity to analyse and evaluate the entertaining and cultural facilities in the city from a planner’s point of view
Practical experience:
2001 consultant for the start-ab questico, Berlin
2000 multimedia/townplanning agency urbanista, Hamburg
1999 advertising agency Kim & Johanssen, Berlin
1998 municipal authority of urban development, Berlin
1997 construction company Arning, Steinfurt
1994 – 1996 publisher of a youth magazine
1990 – 1994 journalistic work at the Münsterschen Zeitung
Other interests:
sports, making and listening to music, going out and drinking coffee
Languages:
German, English
NADINE ZEISKE
23/Berlin/Berlin
Education:
High School Diploma Berlin, 1997
Since 1998 Technical University Berlin, Institute for City and Regional Planning
Interests in planning:
urban planning and urban design, waterfront development, redevelopment and rehabilitation, international planning
Participate in the Entertaining Cities Studio to learn about:
Entertainment is a rarely discussed theme and may be a great chance for the city of Berlin to define its profile for future development. Los Angeles is known for its great entertainment industry and for Berlin the positive and negative experiences of Los Angeles could be very helpful. For me it would be interesting to know what kind and what number of entertainment industries can support the city’s development in the future. In addition I am interested the ability of planning to manage and control the growth of this sector, which will become an increasingly important economic factor for metropolitan cities such as Berlin.
Practical experience:
2001-present, student assistant at the Arbeitsgruppe für Stadtplanung (Planning Office)
private tutor since 1995
1998-2001, student assistant at the Deutsche Interhotel Holding.
1997-1998, ecological year at the department of planning and landscaping, city council Friedrichshain, Berlin
Other interests:
Travelling, reading, cinema, bike-riding and swimming.
Languages:
German, English, French
OLIVER TÜRK
26/Berlin/Berlin
Education:
Pleasant Hill High School, OR, USA 1992/93
Abitur Berlin, 1996
Technische Universität Berlin since 1998, Institute for City and Regional Planning
Special interests in planning:
Urban renewal, new strategies for shrinking cities, planning in post industrial societies, regional planning, planning history, public participation
Participate in the Entertaining Cities Studio to learn about:
In my opinion the entertaining industry, as a major job machine, will have a great impact on planning in the future. For that reason I want to learn about the new chances and dangers that this branch offers post industrial societies. I would also like to know more about the USA, which is the main trendsetter for many new developments in the field of entertaining cities, and share my experiences there.
Practical experience:
2002: internship at the planning department of Eisenhuettenstadt in East Germany
2001 Internship at the private planning office `Spok´ in the field of village renewal, sporadic work for SUDAU Consult in the same field, Teaching Assistant in a studio about prefabricated housing in east Germany
Other interests:
Photography, travelling, cycling, literature (Homer, biographies, historical novels), cabaret, history, chess, board games
Languages:
German, English
PHILIPP KORALEWSKI
27/Berlin/Berlin
Education:
Abitur, Berlin, 1993
1993-95: Technische Universität Berlin, School of Mechanical Engineering
Technische Universität Berlin since 1997, Institute for City and Regional Planning
At present: graduate student 5th
year
Special interests in planning:
Decision-making processes in
planning, New urbanism, preservation of historical monuments, urban design
Participate in the
Entertaining Cities Studio to learn about:
Participating in the Entertaining Cities Studio to learn about Los Angeles and the entertainment industries
Work experience:
1996: Civilian service (in lieu of military service)
Other interests:
Mountain biking, BMX, road racing,
windsurfing, music,
guitar playing, worked in a surf shop in summer from 1990 to 1996,
worked in different bicycle shops since 1990
Languages:
German, English, French, Spanish (some)
STEFFEN KERCHER
27/Berlin / Eppingen
Education:
Abitur Heilbronn, 1997
Technische Universität Berlin since 1998, Institute for City and Regional Planning
At present: graduate student, 4th year
Special interests in planning:
Urban design, new urbanism, sustainable development, economic and legal aspects of planning
Participate in the Entertaining Cities Studio to learn about:
Participating in the Studio to learn about soft location factors in the city region
Practical experience::
Since 2000: position at Planungsgruppe Stadt+Dorf
1997 to 1998: civilian service (in lieu of military service)
1991-94: trained in constructional drawing
Other interests:
badminton, skiing, in-line skating, cooking, reading
Languages:
German, English, French
Prof. Dr. KLAUS. R. KUNZMANN
Dr.techn.(Vienna), Dipl.Ing.(Munich), HonDLitt Newcastle/GB
Jean Monnet Professor of
European Spatial Planning, University of Dortmund, Germany
Research Interests:
Comparative spatial planning in Europe; spatial restructuring of traditional industrial regions; creative and innovative approaches to regional development; the role of culture for urban and regional development; planning education.
Current Research:
The role of universities in regional development; The future of the city region in Germany; Military conversion, innovation and regional development
Additional Background:
For two decades he has monitored urban development trends and policies in Europe and based on his research in this field is a frequent speaker at international conferences on European urban and regional development. Has served as a policy advisor to the European Commission and the Council of Europe, as well as to Governments in Nepal, Malawi, Brazil and the Yemen Arab Republic on behalf of GTZ (German Technical Cooperationn program). More recently, upon request of the European Commission, he has been advising studies for the future of London and Berlin. As a visiting professor he has been among others, at the Institut Français d' Urbanisme of the Université Paris VIII (1990), the ORL-Institut of the ETH Zürich/Switzerland (1992), the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning of the University of California, Los Angeles (1993), and the Departmment of City and Regional Planning of the University of Cardiff, Wales (1998/2002).
Recent Publications (in English):
World City Regions in Europe: Structural Change and Future Challenges. In: Fu-Chen Lo and Yue Man Yeung, Ed., Globalization and the World of Large Cities, United Nations University Press, Tokyo 37-75 (1998); The Future of the City Region in Europe. In: Mastering the City: North-European City Planning 1900-2000. Rotterdam, NAI Publishers/ EFL Publications. 16-29 (1997); and, Euro-Megalopolis or Themepark Europe? Scenarios for European Spatial Development. In: International Planning Studies 2(1) 1996 143-163.