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Katharina Rohde is an urban practitioner*. She works internationally and is currently based in Berlin, Germany.
In her work she explores spatial, social and economic inequalities and visualises inherent potentials and strategies of urban actors in the production of their (survivalist) habitat.
Through transdisciplinary projects, she choreographs collaborative processes and dialogical formats amongst urban ‘experts’, aiming to enable sustainable and socially just urban environments. By staging spaces playfully, new social structures and a manifestation of a multiplicity of voices in the production of our built environment become possible.
Katharina Rohde holds a practice-based PhD from the International Center of Urbanism (ICoU), Department of Architecture at KU Leuven in Belgium through which she explored questions on “How (do) we live together? Everyday Acts of Citizenship and Urban Practice/s in post-migratory Berlin and Johannesburg”.
Currently, she is guest professor for Urban Design at the Institute of Architecture and Urban Design (IASO) at Jade Hochschule Oldenburg, Germany. She is furthermore research associate at the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK) for the European-wide reseach project “Designing Inclusion LIVE: Designing and learning in the context of migration” – a partnership of UdK Berlin, KU Leuven, The University of Sheffield, Politecnico di Milano, Refugees Welcome Italy, S27 Berlin & ASF UK and funded in the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership program.
Since 2005 she holds teaching positions at International Universities amongst others: The University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa (Dep. of Architecture and Urban Planning & School of Arts), The Technical University of Berlin (Habitat Unit & Urban Planning Laboratory), The University of the Arts Berlin, The HafenCity University, Hamburg. She is further actively involved in cultural education, conducting workshops and seminars with children and teenagers.
*further
artist, (feminist) architect, cultural producer, educator, dancer, director, drummer, fundraiser, juror, lecturer, listener, lover (of all kinds), manager and coordinator, networker, (aspired) peacemaker, project developer, social designer, urbanist, urban street-worker and others.
awards
Just Do it! Creative Strategies of Survival
Winner of apexart Franchise Program, New York (2011)
COOP Local Designers and migrants as collaboraters in the Fashion Industry
1. Prize Local Agenda 21 Action Program for Sustainable Urban Development (2007)
1. Prize for Theatre is important! Effects of theatre practice in marginalised communities in South Africa. ASA, Network for Development Policy Learning (2005)
Caracas 23/ 01 (Master thesis)
Archiprix International 2005 (Recognition), Glasgow, Scotland
Caracas 23/ 01 (Master thesis)
3. Internationaler Bauhaus Award 2004 Transit Spaces (Recognition)
Caracas 23/ 01 (Master thesis)
N-Morcos-Assad Award for Excellence in Design 2003/ 04