Event series

The annual IRS Spring Academy offers around 25 young researchers the opportunity to discuss theoretical and methodological approaches to spatial social research with renowned experts and to present their own projects to an international audience. more infos

The IRS Lectures on Society and Space are held by internationally renowned scientists who are invited by the IRS for a short stay at the Institute. On the following day, the speaker and the IRS doctoral students will discuss current theoretical and methodological approaches in a PhD seminar. more infos

The IRS Seminars offer researchers a flexible framework for various lecture and discussion formats to highlight and present their work in the context of IRS research. more infos

The "Brandenburg Regional Talks" are a series of transfer events that the IRS holds twice a year. The talks address politicians, researchers and members of civil society, culture, economy and andministration form the federeal state of Brandenburg an beyond. more infos

This workshop series has been held for over twenty years and provides a forum for interdisciplinary debate among junior researchers and established scholars on manifold issues relating to the history of urban planning in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The series provides a space for academic discussion on the legacy of Eastern European and GDR urban planning within the history of modernist European urban development. It brings together not just academics but also former urban planners and architects from the GDR as historical witnesses. more infos

Past Events

by Event Date

2024

2023

20. October | 2023 
Privatising through ‘smart’ and its implications for urban planning: the case of Sidewalk Labs’ masterplan for Quayside, Toronto

23rd IRS International Lecture on Society and Space with Guy Baeten, Malmö University

09. October | 2023 - 20. October | 2023 
Book launch 100 years of Tempelhof Airport
06. October | 2023 
[Translate to Englisch:] Portaleröffnung "Stadt-Raum-Geschichte"

[Translate to Englisch:] Mit Ministerin Dr. Manja Schüle

04. October | 2023 
Trinity of Change Agency and Path Development: Experiences and Lessons from a Nordic Study

22nd IRS International Lecture on Society and Space with Markku Sotarauta, University Tampere

24. July | 2023 - 27. July | 2023 
Summer School 2023: Residues of the Past: (De)constructing urban histories
10. July | 2023 
Sectioning Colonial Architecture

Keynote Lecture of the Midterm Workshop of the Freigeist Project "Conquering (with) Concrete"

04. July | 2023 - 05. July | 2023 
Spatial Development and Digitalisation: Interactions, Trends and Future Pathways

Spatial Science Colloquium (SSC 2023)

01. June | 2023 
(Re)configuring Urban Cultural Infrastructure

Cancelled - New Date to be Announced

23. May | 2023 - 26. May | 2023 
IRS Spring Academy 2023

Investigating Space(s): Current Theoretical and Methodological Approaches: Spaces of Financialisation and De-Financialisation

04. April | 2023  IRS Conference Room
Anti-Imperialism and The Industrial and Trade Review for India/Asia: Times and Places of Transnational Entanglements in 1920s Berlin

IRS-Seminar with Daniel Siemens

23. January | 2023 
Building, Brokering and Bridging: Pandemic Urban Migrant Citizenship-making in Berlin, Copenhagen, and Tel-Aviv

IRS Seminar with Tatiana Fogelman, Henrik Lebuhn and Nir Cohen

10. January | 2023 
Big Plans, but Devastated Lands: Landscape Planning and Recultivation in Lignite Pit Mining Regions South of Leipzig before 1989

IRS Seminar with Andrew Demshuk | American University | Washington, D.C.

2022

2021

2020

2019

05. December | 2019  IRS, Erkner
IRS Seminar with Stoyan V. Sgourev and Lizzie Richardson
21. November | 2019 - 22. November | 2019 
Edge – Creation and Valuation of Novelty at the Margins

International and Interdisciplinary Conference

20. November | 2019  IRS, Erkner
Experiments at the Edge: Ecological Crisis, Resource Security, and Core-Periphery Dynamics in Global Production Networks

15th IRS International Lecture on Society and Space with Chris Gibson, University of Wollongong, Australia

06. November | 2019 
Exploring Foucault's concepts of milieu and environnementalité as a basis for liberatory environmental politics and practices of managed nonmanagement in Australia

IRS Seminar with Jean Hillier, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

22. October | 2019 
China’s Reconnection to Europe via the BRI: The China-Europe Freight Train and Its Impact on China’s Interior and Border Cities

IRS Seminar with Xiangming Chen, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut

26. September | 2019 - 27. September | 2019  Erkner and Berlin
Visual Communication in Urban Design and Planning

The Impact of Mediatisation(s) on the Construction of the Urban

23. July | 2019  IRS, Erkner
Rural Areas in Estonia and Germany

Untertitel IRS Seminar with Bianka Plüschke-Altof and Kadri Leetmaa and examples presented by Benjamin Schaarwächter and Fabian Schroth

17. June | 2019 
Absorbent Distinctions: A Discursive Tool for Disarming Worldviews Hostility in the Cyberspace

IRS Seminar with Dr. Marta Lenartowicz, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

12. June | 2019  IRS, Erkner
“A closet in the cloud”: Exploring the rise of fashion sharing platforms

IRS Seminar with Dr. Taylor Brydges, Stockholm University

04. June | 2019 - 07. June | 2019  Erkner
IRS Spring Academy 2019

Investigating Space(s): Current Theoretical and Methodological Approaches: Topologies

24. May | 2019 
Ethical Aspects of Research in the ‘Global South’

IRS Seminar with Johan Lagae, Ghent University

22. May | 2019  IRS, Erkner
Patterns and determinants of immigrant-native segregation in Europe

RS Seminar with Dr hab. Prof. UŁ Szymon Marcińczak, University of Łódź

20. May | 2019 
Global Production Networks and Regional Development: Implications for Smart Specialisation

Berlin Economic Geography Lecture with Prof. Dr. Henry Wai-chung Yeung, National University of Singapore

13. May | 2019  IRS, Erkner
Trial and Error. Using social sequence analysis to understand the reception of stylistic erraticism in the early phases of creative journeys.

IRS Seminar with Dr. Giovanni Formilan, University of Warwick

15. April | 2019 
Challenges of implementing municipal level climate change

IRS Seminar with Ender Peker | Sabancı University

08. April | 2019  IRS, Erkner
Global Land – Sub/Urban Form

14th IRS International Lecture on Society and Space with Prof. Ute Lehrer, York University (Toronto, Canada)

13. March | 2019  IRS, Erkner
Translating the Practice of Coworking from Urban to Rural Areas. The Case of Cowocat Rural, the Catalan Association of Rural Coworking Spaces

IRS Seminar with Ignasi Capdevila | PSB Paris School of Business

04. March | 2019  IRS, Erkner
Inner Cities and the Crisis of Urban Governance: Britain and Beyond

IRS Seminar with Aaron Andrews | Leeds Beckett University

20. February | 2019 - 22. February | 2019 
Re-Figuration of Spaces: Mediatization, Mobility, Globalization and Social Dislocation

First International Conference of the SFB 1265

30. January | 2019 
Civil Society and Refugees in Berlin: Between De-Bordering and Re-Bordering?

IRS Seminar with Dr. Burcu Toğral Koca

23. January | 2019 
On the conditions of possibility for worker organizing in platform-based gig economies: Towards a more granular research approach

IRS Seminar with Niels van Doorn | University of Amsterdam

by Event Type

IRS Spring Academy

IRS International Lectures

20. October | 2023 
Privatising through ‘smart’ and its implications for urban planning: the case of Sidewalk Labs’ masterplan for Quayside, Toronto

23rd IRS International Lecture on Society and Space with Guy Baeten, Malmö University

04. October | 2023 
Trinity of Change Agency and Path Development: Experiences and Lessons from a Nordic Study

22nd IRS International Lecture on Society and Space with Markku Sotarauta, University Tampere

06. December | 2022  Webinar
Colonial Geopolitics of the Global Knowledge Economy

21st IRS International Lecture on Society and Space with Sami Moisio, University of Helsinki

11. May | 2022  Webinar
Explanation in Urban Studies: “Comparative Tactics” and Business Models of Developers as Inputs to a Globally Inclusive Urban Theory

20th IRS International Lecture on Society and Space with Örjan Sjöberg, Stockholm School of Economics

22. November | 2021  Webinar
Human Capital Migration, Innovation and Sustainability: Past, Present and Future

19th IRS International Lecture on Society and Space with Alessandra Faggian, Gran Sasso Science Institute

07. May | 2021  Webinar
Fragmented Governance Architecture of Contemporary Urban Development

18th IRS International Lecture on Society and Space with Tuna Taşan-Kok, University of Amsterdam

21. September | 2020  Webinar
Social Exclusion in Diversified Rural Contexts

17th IRS International Lecture on Society and Space with Professor Mark Shucksmith, Newcastle University

30. June | 2020  online
Arrival Cities and Neighbourhood Traps

16th IRS International Lecture on Society and Space with Doug Saunders

20. November | 2019  IRS, Erkner
Experiments at the Edge: Ecological Crisis, Resource Security, and Core-Periphery Dynamics in Global Production Networks

15th IRS International Lecture on Society and Space with Chris Gibson, University of Wollongong, Australia

08. April | 2019  IRS, Erkner
Global Land – Sub/Urban Form

14th IRS International Lecture on Society and Space with Prof. Ute Lehrer, York University (Toronto, Canada)

IRS Seminars

27. November | 2024 
Landlords and tenants: A class-theoretical approach to the relations of social reproduction and potential new research directions in housing studies

IRS Seminar with Danielle Kerrigan, Simon Fraser University

14. March | 2024 
Moving towards a Platformization of Global Production Networks? The case of Logistics

IRS Seminar with Philip Verfürth, Osnabrück University

04. April | 2023  IRS Conference Room
Anti-Imperialism and The Industrial and Trade Review for India/Asia: Times and Places of Transnational Entanglements in 1920s Berlin

IRS-Seminar with Daniel Siemens

23. January | 2023 
Building, Brokering and Bridging: Pandemic Urban Migrant Citizenship-making in Berlin, Copenhagen, and Tel-Aviv

IRS Seminar with Tatiana Fogelman, Henrik Lebuhn and Nir Cohen

11. October | 2022 
To stay, to leave, to come back. Insights about spatialized decision-making of Ukrainian refugees in Germany

IRS Seminar with Valeria Lazarenko | Researcher in the Research Area “Politics and Planning”

27. September | 2022 
Central and Eastern Europe

IRS Seminar with Łukasz Drozda | University of Warsaw

12. July | 2022 
Evolving southern European housing regimes: some insights in the Italian context by looking at the Milan's case

IRS Seminar with Alessandro Coppola | Assistant Professor in Urban Planning at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies at Politecnico di Milano

11. July | 2022 
Urban Branding Strategies and Spatial Reconfigurations in the 21st Century Berlin: From the Creative to the Connected City

IRS Seminar with Dr. Claudia Seldin | Associate Researcher at the Center for Metropolitan Studies of the Technische Universität Berlin

27. June | 2022 
Opportunities and Challenges of Internationalisation: a Critical Geographical Perspective on the Nature and Outcomes of Academic Events

IRS Seminar with Heike Jöns | Professor of Geography | Loughborough University

16. May | 2022  Webinar
The Border as Bridge: Mandelbaum Gate in Divided Jerusalem (1948–1967): Geopolitics and the Historical-Geography of a Divided City

IRS Seminar with Kobi Cohen-Hattab, Bar Ilan University, Israel

30. March | 2022  Webinar
How Covid-19 rebordering impacted identity on Polish borderlands. Case of Polish-German twin-cities of Słubice and Gubin

IRS Seminar with Maciej Frackowiak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

17. August | 2021  Webinar
Transforming Cities via experimental planning interventions: Socio-spatial benefits and contestations of superblocks in Vienna

IRS Seminar with Anna-Katharina Brenner, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria

27. November | 2020  Webinar
Global Entanglements in Small Towns: Contesting Spatial Orders in 20th Century Kdyně

IRS Seminar with Jaroslav Ira, Charles University, Prague

26. November | 2020  Webinar
Urban Studies and the Ethics of Care: Lessons from Southern Tel Aviv

IRS Seminar with Nir Cohen, Bar Ilan University

05. October | 2020  Webinar
Water and the Welfare Citizen: The Material Politics of Urban Water in 20th Century Copenhagen

IRS Seminar with Mikkel Høghøj

22. January | 2020  IRS, Erkner
Spaces of Emergence – Emergent Spaces

IRS Seminar with Koen Frenken, Alica Repenning, Anna Oechslen and Angeliki Tzouganatou

05. December | 2019  IRS, Erkner
IRS Seminar with Stoyan V. Sgourev and Lizzie Richardson
06. November | 2019 
Exploring Foucault's concepts of milieu and environnementalité as a basis for liberatory environmental politics and practices of managed nonmanagement in Australia

IRS Seminar with Jean Hillier, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

22. October | 2019 
China’s Reconnection to Europe via the BRI: The China-Europe Freight Train and Its Impact on China’s Interior and Border Cities

IRS Seminar with Xiangming Chen, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut

23. July | 2019  IRS, Erkner
Rural Areas in Estonia and Germany

Untertitel IRS Seminar with Bianka Plüschke-Altof and Kadri Leetmaa and examples presented by Benjamin Schaarwächter and Fabian Schroth

17. June | 2019 
Absorbent Distinctions: A Discursive Tool for Disarming Worldviews Hostility in the Cyberspace

IRS Seminar with Dr. Marta Lenartowicz, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

12. June | 2019  IRS, Erkner
“A closet in the cloud”: Exploring the rise of fashion sharing platforms

IRS Seminar with Dr. Taylor Brydges, Stockholm University

24. May | 2019 
Ethical Aspects of Research in the ‘Global South’

IRS Seminar with Johan Lagae, Ghent University

22. May | 2019  IRS, Erkner
Patterns and determinants of immigrant-native segregation in Europe

RS Seminar with Dr hab. Prof. UŁ Szymon Marcińczak, University of Łódź

13. May | 2019  IRS, Erkner
Trial and Error. Using social sequence analysis to understand the reception of stylistic erraticism in the early phases of creative journeys.

IRS Seminar with Dr. Giovanni Formilan, University of Warwick

15. April | 2019 
Challenges of implementing municipal level climate change

IRS Seminar with Ender Peker | Sabancı University

13. March | 2019  IRS, Erkner
Translating the Practice of Coworking from Urban to Rural Areas. The Case of Cowocat Rural, the Catalan Association of Rural Coworking Spaces

IRS Seminar with Ignasi Capdevila | PSB Paris School of Business

04. March | 2019  IRS, Erkner
Inner Cities and the Crisis of Urban Governance: Britain and Beyond

IRS Seminar with Aaron Andrews | Leeds Beckett University

30. January | 2019 
Civil Society and Refugees in Berlin: Between De-Bordering and Re-Bordering?

IRS Seminar with Dr. Burcu Toğral Koca

23. January | 2019 
On the conditions of possibility for worker organizing in platform-based gig economies: Towards a more granular research approach

IRS Seminar with Niels van Doorn | University of Amsterdam

18. April | 2018 
Rural Social Entrepreneurship: The Role of Social Capital Within and Across Institutional Levels

IRS Seminar with Richard Lang, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Institute for Innovation Management, Austria

26. February | 2018  IRS, Erkner
The Worlding of Eastern Europe: Architects from Socialist Countries in Cold War West Africa

IRS Seminar with Dr Łukasz Stanek

Conferences

24. July | 2023 - 27. July | 2023 
Summer School 2023: Residues of the Past: (De)constructing urban histories
04. July | 2023 - 05. July | 2023 
Spatial Development and Digitalisation: Interactions, Trends and Future Pathways

Spatial Science Colloquium (SSC 2023)

01. August | 2022 - 05. August | 2022 
Summer School 2022: The Socialist City: Planning, Transformation and Aftermath
15. November | 2021 - 16. November | 2021 
On-/Offline Interferences – Digitalisation and Socio-Spatial Transformations

International Web-Conference

28. October | 2021 - 30. October | 2021 
Spatial Refiguration: Dynamics, Challenges, and Conflicts

Third International Conference of the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 1265) „Refiguration of Spaces“

17. September | 2021 - 18. September | 2021  Bamberg
The Great Strength of the Collective!

Collaborative Working in Architecture from the 20th Century to the Present

30. June | 2021 - 02. July | 2021 
Emerging from Emergencies. Exploring CRISIS as a Dynamic Opportunity Structure

International and Transdisciplinary Virtual Conference

22. February | 2021 - 26. February | 2021  Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) | Berlin
Energy Futures Conference. Emerging Pathways in an Uncertain World!
25. November | 2020 - 27. November | 2020  Leipzig
The URP||2020

Sustainable & Resilient Urban-Rural-Partner

12. November | 2020 - 14. November | 2020  Bamberg
Update: The conference will be postponed to 2021!

The Great Strength of the Collective! Collaborative Working in Architecture from the 20th Century to the Present

21. September | 2020 - 22. September | 2020 
International Web Conference Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation in Rural Regions
21. November | 2019 - 22. November | 2019 
Edge – Creation and Valuation of Novelty at the Margins

International and Interdisciplinary Conference

26. September | 2019 - 27. September | 2019  Erkner and Berlin
Visual Communication in Urban Design and Planning

The Impact of Mediatisation(s) on the Construction of the Urban

20. February | 2019 - 22. February | 2019 
Re-Figuration of Spaces: Mediatization, Mobility, Globalization and Social Dislocation

First International Conference of the SFB 1265

15. October | 2018  IRS, Erkner
What Drives Urban Transformation?

The Governance of Migration and the Local Scale in European Perspective

04. October | 2018 - 07. October | 2018  Frankfurt/Oder
Managing Manorial Heritage – Scaling and Balancing Public and Private Issues

The 4th ENCOUNTER-Conference

24. September | 2018 - 25. September | 2018 
Energy Landscapes of Today and Tomorrow

UFZ EnergyDays 2018

21. June | 2018 - 22. June | 2018  IRS, Erkner
Exporting Socialism, Making Business?

Intercultural Transfer, Circulation and Appropriations of Architecture in the Cold War Period

14. June | 2018 - 15. June | 2018  Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)
Breaking the Rules! Energy Transitions as Social Innovations

Workshops

Transfer Events

Workshop Series on the History of Building and Planning

23. January | 2020 - 24. January | 2020  IRS, Erkner
Neue Forschungen zur DDR-Planungsgeschichte

16. Werkstattgespräch

18. January | 2018 - 19. January | 2018  Erkner
Neue Forschungen zur DDR-Planungsgeschichte

15. Werkstattgespräch

Exhibitions

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