Inés Gartlinger
Research Associate | Politics and Planning
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Inés Gartlinger joined the IRS in January 2025 as a research associate in the new lead project of the Research Area “Politics and Planning” in the Research Group “Urban Sustainability Transformations.” As part of this project, she is working on her dissertation on the governance of the urban heat transition in the German EU Mission Cities.

She holds a B.A. in Architecture and studied Urban and Regional Planning in her Master’s at the Technische Universität Berlin. In her master’s thesis she analyzed Climate Governance Experiments and their different experimental logics in the solar energy transition in Berlin. During her studies, she worked as a student assistant in different subprojects of the CRC 1265 “Re-Figuration of Spaces” at the TU Berlin, where she is now an associated member. Since 2024, she is Associate Editor of the journal "Architecture and Culture". 

Projects

Ongoing Lead Projects

Lead project 01/2026 - 12/2029
Urban Heat Transition

This Lead Project examines the intertwining of the housing and climate crises. Using the example of the urban heat transition in Germany, it questions the apparent contradiction between the provision of affordable housing and the climate-friendly construction and operation of apartments. Building on insights from climate governance, housing research, and planning theory, it promotes transdisciplinary dialogue with actors who are committed to a socio-ecological urban heat transition. more info

Selected Publications by Year

2025
Gartlinger, I., & Gualini, E. (2025). Climate Governance Experiments: Current Practices and their Meta-Governance Embedding in Berlin’s Solar Energy Transition. European Planning Studies, 33(5), 680-698. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2025.2475155

Selected Publications by Type

Journal Article
Gartlinger, I., & Gualini, E. (2025). Climate Governance Experiments: Current Practices and their Meta-Governance Embedding in Berlin’s Solar Energy Transition. European Planning Studies, 33(5), 680-698. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2025.2475155

Talks

2025
Governance der urbanen Wärmewende in Aachen, Dresden und Mannheim

Die Wärmewende: Politik- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Perspektiven

December/08/2025
Fraunhofer ENIQ, EUREF-Campus, Berlin, Germany

Governance of the Urban Heat Transition: First Insights from three German EU-'Mission Cities'

International Research Retreat on Energy Infrastructure

October/30/2025
HafenCity Universität, Hamburg, Germany

Experimentation as a (new) mode of governing the urban heat transition? Methodological choices

Summer School for Early Career Researchers - Methodological Perspectives for Social Research on Energy and Environmental Issues

September/23/2025
KTU Kaunas Technical University, Kaunas, Lithuania

Experimentelle Governance der sozial-ökologischen Transformation - Rahmenbedingungen der urbanen Wärmewende in den deutschen EU-'Mission Cities' Aachen, Mannheim und Dresden

Jahrestagung AK Geographische Energieforschung

September/02/2025
BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Cottbus, Germany