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04. July | 2023 - 05. July | 2023
Spatial Development and Digitalisation: Interactions, Trends and Future Pathways
Spatial Science Colloquium (SSC 2023)

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Photo above: The Map of historical Rostock City shows the damage from the allied bombardement in 1942. public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rostock_City_Bombardement_1942.png; Photo left: Bułhak, Gdansk, ratusz, ca. 1949, Biblioteka Narodowa, Sig. F.63008/II, public domain; Photo right: Cottbus Town Hall: perspective view, Architecture Museum of the TU Berlin, Inv. No. 10092. Work and digital copy are in the public domain.
24. July | 2023 - 27. July | 2023
Summer School 2023: Residues of the Past: (De)constructing urban histories

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Past Events

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2022

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

20. October | 2022 - 21. October | 2022 
Mapping “Post-Conflict” Cities
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

01. August | 2022 - 05. August | 2022 
Summer School 2022: The Socialist City: Planning, Transformation and Aftermath
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

02. June | 2022 
Invitation to Public Keynote “Pandemic Influenzas: Space, Genetics, and Landscapes“

by Prof. Dr. Michael Emch | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

31. May | 2022 
Invitation to Public Keynote “The 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic: Health and Economic Impacts”

by Prof. Dr. Karen Clay | Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz College

31. May | 2022 - 03. June | 2022 
IRS Spring Academy 2022

Investigating Space(s): Current Theoretical and Methodological Approaches: Part 5 – Spaces of Infection

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

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

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

2021

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

17. November | 2021 
COVID and what next? Methodological Implications for Digitalization Research in Rural-Peripheral Areas
15. November | 2021 - 16. November | 2021 
On-/Offline Interferences – Digitalisation and Socio-Spatial Transformations

International Web-Conference

12. November | 2021 
Tackling The Turmoil

Online-Workshop on #Crisis as #Process

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

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

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

International and Transdisciplinary Virtual Conference

18. May | 2021 - 21. May | 2021  digital
IRS Spring Academy 2021

Investigating Space(s): Current Theoretical and Methodological Approaches: Spaces of Crisis

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

22. February | 2021 - 26. February | 2021  Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) | Berlin
Energy Futures Conference. Emerging Pathways in an Uncertain World!

2020

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

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

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

IRS Seminar with Mikkel Høghøj

23. September | 2020  Webinar
Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovations in European Rural Regions – Recommendations for Policy Makers

International Policy Roundtable

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

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

21. September | 2020 - 22. September | 2020 
International Web Conference Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation in Rural Regions
30. June | 2020  online
Arrival Cities and Neighbourhood Traps

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

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

16. Werkstattgespräch

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

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

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

Conferences

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

IRS International Lectures

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)

Workshops

IRS Seminars

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

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

Exhibitions