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Ariane Sept

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  • Role in Center:

    Network partner

  • Discipline:

    Spatial Sociology

  • University:

    Technische Universität Wien

  • Country:

    Austria

Prof. Dr. Ariane Sept is a Professor for Spatial Sociology and Head of Research Unit Sociology at Institute of Spatial Planning at the Technical University Vienna (TU Wien), Austria. Before this, she was a Professor for Participative Spatial Development and Community Work at University of Applied Sciences Munich, Germany. As a postdoctoral researcher, she worked at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space until 2022.
Ariane Sept studied Urban and Regional Planning in Germany and Italy. She holds a Dipl.-Ing. from TU Berlin and got her PhD in sociology as part of the graduate program “Innovation Society Today,” also at the TU Berlin. Her research focuses on sustainable urban, regional, and rural development, socio-spatial disparities, social innovations, and socio-ecological transformation from a social science perspective. She is particularly interested in methods of spatial social research and issues of transdisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity.

Selected Publications:

  • Löw, Martina; Sept, Ariane (2025): Urban and Spatial Innovation. In: Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer, Arnold Windeler, Birgit Blättel-Mink (Eds.): Handbook of Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25143-6_69-1

    Christmann, Gabriela; Sept, Ariane; Richter, Ralph (2024): Socially Innovative Initiatives in Deprived Rural Areas of Germany, Ireland and Portugal: Exploring Empowerment and Impact on Community Development. In: societies, 14(58), 1- 23. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc14050058

    Thewes, Christoph; Sept, Ariane; Richter, Ralph (2024): A voluntary divide? Exploring the role of digitalisation in German rural volunteering. In: European Countryside 16(1), 43-63. doi: 10.2478/euco-2024-0004

    Sept, Ariane (2023): Wie soziale Innovationen die ländliche Raumentwicklung durchdringen. In: Schulz-Schaeffer, I., Seibt, D., Windeler, A. (Eds.) Innovationsgesellschaft heute. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 63-91. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-39743-2_3

    Plüschke-Altof, Bianka; Sept, Ariane (2023): How to make Forgotten Spaces visible? Image making as a coping strategy of two European small towns. In: María del Carmen Sánchez-Carreira, Paulo Jorge Reis Mourão, Bruno Blanco-Varela (Hg.): European Regional Policy and Development. Forgotten Regions and Spaces. London: Routledge, 53-69

    Binder, Julia; Sept, Ariane (2022): Ländliche Kleinstädte im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung. Ortsunabhängiges Arbeiten und Zwischennutzung am Beispiel des Summer of Pioneers. In: Nina Gribat, Baris Ülker, Silke Weidner, Bernhard Weyrauch, Juliane Ribbeck-Lampel (Hg.): Kleinstadtforschung. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven. Bielefeld: transcript, 237-258

    Sept, Ariane; Baur, Nina (2020): Stadt- und Metropolenvergleiche. In: Ingrid Breckner, Albrecht Göschel, Ulf Matthiesen (Eds.): Stadtsoziologie und Stadtentwicklung. Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Praxis. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 643-654

    Sept, Ariane (2018): Entschleunigung in Klein- und Mittelstädten. Cittaslow als soziale Innovation in der Stadtentwicklung. Lemgo: Rohn

Areas of Expertise:

Spatial Sociology, Urban and Regional Planning, Community Work

Current Position(s):

Professor for Spatial Sociology and Head of Research Unit Sociology at Institute of Spatial Planning, TU Wien, Austria

Past Position(s)

Professor for Participative Spatial Development and Community Work at University of Applied Sciences Munich, Germany