Martin Schinagl
Research Associate | Dynamics of Communication, Knowledge and Spatial Development
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Martin Schinagl works in the research department “Dynamics of Communication, Knowledge and Spatial Development” in the sub-project "Digitale städtebauliche Planungen: Planerisches Handeln und materiell-physische Anordnungen” of the DFG-funded special research field “Re-figurations of Spaces” since March 2018.

He completed his Bachelor of Science in human geography and sociology at the University of Potsdam. It was followed by a Master of Arts in European Ethnology at the Humboldt-University of Berlin. His Master’s thesis “Online Dating – Culture, Practice, Desiring Machine” included an empirical anthropological study on new urban cultures of mediatized forms of becoming acquainted. From 2015 to 2018 he worked as freelance teacher and instructor in the sector of informal youth education and vocational training. The focus lay on antidiscrimination, conflict management, migration, and social studies.

Research Interest and Expertise

Research Foci
Visualisation in Urban Planning
Urban Planning and Development
Disciplines
Sociology
Ethnology
Foci in Methods and Concepts
Ethnographical Methods
Grounded Theory Method
Semi-Structured Interviews
Content Analysis
Participatory Observation
Text Analysis

Projects

Ongoing Third-party Funded Projects

Third-party funded project 03/2018 - 12/2021
Digital Urban Planning: Planning Practices and Physical Arrangements

“Re-Figuration of Spaces” is the first sociology-led Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) to be funded by the German Research Foundation. It aims to investigate the comprehensive spatial reorganisation of global scale that has been caused by an increase in the global circulation of people and goods, the development and dissemination of digital communications technologies, and the thus entailed growth of worldwide interconnections. Prof. Dr. Gabriela Christmann of the IRS is involved in the CRC as a member of the management board and as spokesperson for Project Area B, “Spaces of Communication”, and leads the sub-project “Digital Urban Planning: Planning Practices and Physical Arrangements”. more info

Ongoing Qualification Projects

Qualification project 01/2018 - 12/2021
Machines of Spatial Imagination. Digital Agency in Urban Planning. Comparing Planning Practices in New York, Frankfurt and Lagos.

Simulation, GIS and CAD software, 3D visualizations, 3D printers and drone technology have become part of the digital infrastructure for planners. They use digital tools and software to analyze, understand and shape the future of cities. The dissertation project investigates how digital arrangements coconstruct the design and planning practicse of urban planners. Martin Schinagl does this by applying methods of qualitative social research and ethnographic workplace research in private and public planning offices. By cross-culturally comparing a number of planning offices in different cities of the world (Lagos, New York, Frankfurt), the project aims to find out how communicative actions and spatial imaginations differ and resemble each other in mediatized working environments. more info

Selected Publications by Year

2021
Baxter, J. S., Marguin, S., Mélix, S., Schinagl, M., Singh, A., & Sommer, V. (2021). Hybrid Mapping Methodology: A Manifesto. (Working Paper SFB 1265; No. 9). Berlin: Technische Universität Berlin. DOI: 10.14279/depositonce-12060
Christmann, G., Mélix, S., & Schinagl, M. (2021). Digitales städtebauliches Planen. In J. Hoerning, & P. Misselwitz (Eds.), Räume in Veränderung: Ein visuelles Lesebuch (pp. 168-177). Berlin: Jovis.
Christmann, G., & Schinagl, M. (2021). Digitale Planung, digitalisiertes Planungshandeln und mediatisierte Konstruktionen von Räumen. In M. Löw, V. Sayman, J. Schwerer, & H. Wolf (Eds.), Am Ende der Globalisierung: Über die Refiguration von Räumen (pp. 183-204). (Re-Figuration von Räumen; Vol. 1). Bielefeld: Transcript.
  • https://www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/0a/52/97/oa9783839454022.pdf
    • Christmann, G., & Schinagl, M. (2021). Verlust des Raumes? Die Digitalisierung und die Herstellung von Räumen. Der Architekt, (1), 29-33.
    2019
    Mélix, S., & Schinagl, M. (2019). Imagining Space and Envisionting Futures: A Bi-Disciplinary Approach to Digital Urban Planning. 57-63. Alternatives to the Present , Cleveland, United States.
  • http://architecturemps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/AMPS-Proceedings-16-Alternatives-to-the-Present.pdf
    • Schinagl, M. (2019). Tagungsbericht: Re-Figuration von Räumen und der Kulturvergleich: 14.06.2018 – 15.06.2018 Berlin. H-Soz-u-Kult.
  • http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/index.asp?id=7785&view=pdf&pn=tagungsberichte&type=tagungsberichte

    • Selected Publications by Type

    Journal Article
    Christmann, G., & Schinagl, M. (2021). Verlust des Raumes? Die Digitalisierung und die Herstellung von Räumen. Der Architekt, (1), 29-33.
    Schinagl, M. (2019). Tagungsbericht: Re-Figuration von Räumen und der Kulturvergleich: 14.06.2018 – 15.06.2018 Berlin. H-Soz-u-Kult.
  • http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/index.asp?id=7785&view=pdf&pn=tagungsberichte&type=tagungsberichte
    • Contribution to Anthology
    Christmann, G., Mélix, S., & Schinagl, M. (2021). Digitales städtebauliches Planen. In J. Hoerning, & P. Misselwitz (Eds.), Räume in Veränderung: Ein visuelles Lesebuch (pp. 168-177). Berlin: Jovis.
    Christmann, G., & Schinagl, M. (2021). Digitale Planung, digitalisiertes Planungshandeln und mediatisierte Konstruktionen von Räumen. In M. Löw, V. Sayman, J. Schwerer, & H. Wolf (Eds.), Am Ende der Globalisierung: Über die Refiguration von Räumen (pp. 183-204). (Re-Figuration von Räumen; Vol. 1). Bielefeld: Transcript.
  • https://www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/0a/52/97/oa9783839454022.pdf
    • Article in Conference Documentation
    Mélix, S., & Schinagl, M. (2019). Imagining Space and Envisionting Futures: A Bi-Disciplinary Approach to Digital Urban Planning. 57-63. Alternatives to the Present , Cleveland, United States.
  • http://architecturemps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/AMPS-Proceedings-16-Alternatives-to-the-Present.pdf
    • Working Paper, Discussion Paper
    Baxter, J. S., Marguin, S., Mélix, S., Schinagl, M., Singh, A., & Sommer, V. (2021). Hybrid Mapping Methodology: A Manifesto. (Working Paper SFB 1265; No. 9). Berlin: Technische Universität Berlin. DOI: 10.14279/depositonce-12060

    Talks

    2020
    Planerische Technoscapes und digitale Raumkonstruktionen

    Neue Kulturgeographie XVII: Technoscapes & Technocultures

    January/31/2020
    Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany

    2019
    Digital Spatial Imaginations: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Urban Planning.

    In and Beyond the City

    September/21/2019
    India Habitat Center, Delhi, India

    Digitale räumliche Imaginationen - Epistem, Handlung, Artefakt und Raum in der Planung

    Tübinger Spring School 2019 "Qualitativ Forschen"

    April/12/2019
    Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

    Maschinen räumlicher Imagination: Digitale Agency in der städtebaulichen Planung

    Architektur, Gesellschaft, Digitalisierung

    March/09/2019
    Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

    Digital Urban Planning: Planning-Oriented Actions and Physical-Material Arrangements

    Re-Figuration of Spaces: Mediatization, Mobility, Globalization and Social Dislocation

    February/21/2019
    Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    2018
    Digital Urban Planning: Planning practices and physical arrangements

    Alternatives to the Present

    November/01/2018
    Cleveland, United States

    Machines of spatial imagination: Digital agency in urban planning

    3rd Annual Conference of the Collaborative Research Center 1199 "Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition"

    October/06/2018
    Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany