Isabel Herrle
Research Associate | Economy and Civil Society

Since February 2026, Isabel Rosa Marie Herrle has been working as a research associate in the Research Area “Economy and Civil Society” at the IRS in a subproject of the Collaborative Research Center 1265 “Re-Figuration of Spaces”.

As part of SFB 1265, she is pursuing her doctorate in subproject B01 on the significance of artificial intelligence in digitalisation strategies for spatial planning.

Previously, Isabel Rosa Marie Herrle worked at the Institute for Sociocultural Development at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts on a project on urban development and participation funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

In fall 2024, she completed her Master of Science in Urban Design at HafenCity University Hamburg. In her master's thesis, she examined a national funding program for co-productive urban development. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Cultural and Spatial Sciences in 2021 at Leuphana University Lüneburg with a participatory research project involving homeless people and their spatial practices.

She gained further international experience during a semester abroad at the Universidad de Buenos Aires in Argentina and a subsequent internship at an NGO working to combat poverty in the slums on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.

Projects

Ongoing Third-party Funded Projects

As subproject B01, this project contributes to the project area "Spaces of Digital Mediatisation" of the DFG Collaborative Research Centre "Re-Figuration of Spaces", which is coordinated at Technische Universität Berlin. It examines the reconfiguration of spaces in the context of digital planning strategies in urban and rural areas, with a particular focus on the role of artificial intelligence (AI). The aim is to analyse the spatial figure of the place and to understand how AI-based planning processes shape and change local identities. more info