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Dr. Ing. Katleen De Flander

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  • Role in Center:

    SMUS Scientific Coordinator

  • Discipline:

    Urbanism

  • University:

    Technische Universität Berlin

  • Country:

    Based in Germany

Biography: Dr.-Ing. Katleen De Flander is an urbanist and scientific project coordinator. Recent work focuses on wicked urban problems (WUP) in international and transdisciplinary settings. Before her position as SMUS Scientific Coordinator, she worked as a Post-Doc researcher at K LAB, TU-Berlin, on two research projects that look at the intersection of critical mapping, socio-environmental transformation, and municipalist movements.

Selected Publications:

  • Mukherjee et al. (2024): out of site / sight: contagious tactics for wicked urban problems, Mexico City: Festina Publicaciones. Available here.

  • Aruri, N., De Flander, K., Brück, A. (Eds.) (2024): CMMM: Critical Mapping for Municipalist Mobilization, Berlin: Berlin Universities Publishing. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-20117

  • Aruri, N., De Flander, K., Brück, A. (2022): Mapping Change Logbook. Berlin: Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-15560. Online version: https://mapping-change.labor-k.org/overview/

  • De Flander, K. (2017): Re-organising the Urban Stratum. Dissertation TU Berlin. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-5727

  • De Flander, K./Ayala Cortés, J. (Eds.) (2015 and 2017): LAB2: Different Urbanisations. Critical Dialogues Series: the New Urban Agenda ‘on the ground’. and FIELD WORK 3: UN Data. Critical Dialogues Series: the New Urban Agenda ‘on the ground’. Potsdam: Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies IASS. Online version and complimentary videos: criticalurbanagenda.de

  • De Flander, K./Brugmann, J. (2017): Pressure-Point Strategy: Leverages for Urban Systemic Transformation. Sustainability 9 (99).

  • De Flander, K. (2015): The Urban Stratum. In: Fragile Beauty, edited by Antonia Stolz, Ioan Brumer, and Manuel Rivera. Berlin: Round not Square.

  • De Flander, K. (2015): Closed Cycles – Open City. In Johnson, C., Toly, N., Schroeder, H. (Eds.), The Urban Climate Challenge: Rethinking the Role of Cities in the Global Climate Regime. Cities and Global Governance, 4. New York, NY [u.a.]: Routledge, 37–62.

  • De Flander, K./Hahne, U./Kegler, H./Lang, D./Lucas, R./Schneidewind, U./Simon, K.-H./Singer-Brodowski, M./Wanner, M./Wiek, A. (2014): Resilienz und Reallabore als Schlüsselkonzepte urbaner Transformationsforschung. Zwölf Thesen. GAIA – Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 23, 3, 284–286.

  • De Flander, K./Rovers, R. (2009): One laminated bamboo-frame house per hectare per year. Construction and Building Materials, 23, 210–218.

Areas of Expertise:

  • wicked urban problems
  • critical mapping
  • transdisciplinary research

Current Position(s):

  • Since 2020: Scientific Coordinator, SMUS, Technische Universität Berlin

Past Position(s)

  • 2018-2023: Post-Doc Researcher, K LAB, Technische Universität Berlin
  • 2011-2017: Research Associate and Research Fellow, IASS Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany
  • 2010-2011: Researcher, RiBuilT Research Institute for the Built environment of Tomorrow, ZUYD University, the Netherlands
  • 2009-2010: Project Manager, Centre of Sustainable Building CEDUBO, Flanders, Belgium
  • 2005-2006: Researcher, Urban Environment Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands

Prizes & Awards:

  • 2019-2020: Robert Bosch Stiftung – Project Funding “Critical Mapping in Municipalist Movements”,” docked at K LAB, Technische Universität Berlin
  • 2018-2021: VolkswagenStiftung – Project Funding “Mapping for Change”, docked at K LAB, Technische Universität Berlin
  • 2011-2015: Research Fellowship at the IASS Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam
  • 2001: Postgraduate Scholarship at the Bauhaus Kolleg, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau