Architecture is the
Space Between People.

Design

Architecture is more than the act of constructing buildings – it is about people: how they inhabit, perceive, and co-create the spaces around them. Architecture reflects and shapes how we live together, how we relate to one another, and how we imagine our collective future. In this sense, architecture is not just a product, but an ongoing process. And design is a practice of relational building, shaping connections between people, places, and practices.

Space Between People is the integrative framework of my interdisciplinary background in architecture, business administration, and furniture design. I move across disciplines, scales, and perspectives—mediating between theory and practice, people and places, visions and infrastructures. I am also co-founder of the non-profit organization Stadtlücken e.V. which researches urban voids and highlights them through urban interventions since 2015.

Theory Inspired by Practice. Practice Grounded in Theory.

Research

With a background in carpentry, business administration, and architecture, I approach urban research through a cross-disciplinary lens. My work is rooted in years of practical experience where I have explored how urban transformation can emerge from civic initiative, spatial experimentation, and public engagement. I investigate how people, places, and practices interact in arenas of urban future-making and how experimental, co-productive formats can inform new modes of governance and participation. Rather than treating theory and practice as separate realms, my research builds on situated knowledge and seeks to translate between action and reflection, site and discourse.

At present, I pursue a PhD at the Institute for History and Theory of Architecture and the City at the TU Braunschweig, supported by a doctoral scholarship from the Wüstenrot Foundation.

Since 2016, I have worked as a research and teaching assistant in various Institutions, such as Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, the Urban Design Institute of the University of Stuttgart and the Leibniz University of Hanover. In 2019/2020 I was Guest Professor for Architecture and Design at State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. I studied at the HafenCity University Hamburg, Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi Istanbul and the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. I hold a Masters Degree in Architecture, as well a Diploma in Business Administration from the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University. I am a trained carpenter.

Arenas of Urban Future-Making.

Collaboration

The challenges shaping the future of our cities are becoming increasingly complex – socially, ecologically, and politically. These challenges can no longer be solved within the silo of a single discipline. Instead, they demand collaborative approaches that cross both interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary boundaries. In response, I curate, coordinate, and facilitate cooperative and co-creative processes and projects that bring together diverse actors, knowledges, and practices. My work focuses on creating spaces – physical, social, and conceptual – in which alternative urban futures can be collectively imagined, negotiated, and tested.

Currently, I am coordinator in the Zukunftslabor.Klima – Open Planning Cultures at the Technical University of Braunschweig.