Förderinitiative Interdisziplinäre Forschung

Submitted a proposal for the Förderinitiative Interdisziplinäre Forschung at TU Darmstadt together with Maren Harnack, Mario Tvrtković and Tobias Wolf. The proposal is now off and on its way. If we succeed we will receive a nice little grant to explore processes and chances of identification with the built environment of large scale housing estates of the 1960s and 1970s.

Collaborative Grant Proposal

Spent most of the day revising a collaborative grant proposal on the architectural potential of 1960s/70s mass housing.

JAPA on Public Housing

The Journal of the American Planning Association will publish a special issue on Public Housing in the US, explicitly including a historical perspective. Deadline for proposals for articles is Sept. 15. I am looking forward to reading the results scheduled for publication in 2012.

Network 45+

There will be a new research network on post-1945 architecture. I decided to take part and discuss a proposal for research on the construction of images for West-German public housing in the 1960s and 1970s. There was a huge shift from the predominance of positive to negative images which still prevail today. If things go well it might lead to some interdisciplinary project addressing the relevance and changeability of image construction for post-1945 housing projects.

More news on this interesting network coming soon…