Leonie Plänkers Dr. des.
Research associate
Working area(s)
Urban and Spatial Sociology,
Contact
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Work
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Darmstadt
- Impact Research in Architecture and Urbanism
- Interdisciplinary Urban Studies
- Interdisciplinary Architectural Research
- Common good-orientated urban development
- Tourism
- Reconstruction in Architecture and Urbanism
Working Title: Learning from a New Old Town – Exploring Urban Impact Research in Frankfurt
The research addresses the conceptual gap in regard to integrated empirical impact research in architecture and urbanism and explores this approach in the case of the New Old Town in Frankfurt am Main. The quarter exemplifies the much-discussed projects of the contemporary “reconstruction wave” (BMVBS 2010) in Germany, to which a variety of effects are attributed. This is particularly the case when, as in Dresden, Frankfurt and Potsdam, they extend to the urban scale and thus represent new central urban areas. However, the extent to which they unfold the expected – and other, unexpected – effects is not subject to empirical enquiry once the projects have been completed, meaning that the controversial debate remains without an empirical basis. The dissertation is therefore dedicated to an empirical assessment of the New Old Town, which opened in 2018. The in-depth empirical exploration reveals networked impacts between the mediation of history, reconstruction aesthetics and everyday urban life in the New Old Town.
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| Academic Experience | |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Completion of PhD at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg |
| 2020 – 2024 | Researcher, “Architectures of Order“ interdisciplinary research cluster at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt and Technical University Darmstadt |
| 2023 | Co-founder of the DFG-funded research network „WAS – Impact Research in Architecture and Urbanism: Interdisciplinary Theories and Methods (with Prof. Dr. Nina Gribat and Dr. Sina Brückner-Amin) |
| 2017 – 2022 | Lecturer and Researcher, Chair of Design and Urbanism, Department of Architecture, Technical University Darmstadt |
| Professional Experience | |
| 2017 – 2019 | Urban planner, büro luchterhandt, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2016 – 2017 | Urban planner and Architect, bb22 architekten + stadtplaner, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2011 – 2016 | Urban planner, büro luchterhandt, Hamburg |
| Academic Education | |
| 2004 – 2011 | Studies of Architecture at TU Darmstadt and University of Florence (Dipl.-ing.) |
| 2024 | Frankfurt’s New Old Town Re-imagined: Unlocking Potential for Enhanced Inclusivity, RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London |
| 2021 | Simply more beautiful? Aesthetics in urban reconstruction projects. RC 21 Conference, Antwerp/online |
| 2018 | Urban Identities and Reconstruction. Germany’s Late Second Wave of Post-War Reconstruction and the Case of Frankfurt‘s New Old Town. New Urban Identities Conference, University of Florence |
| 2017 | (Re-)Building Urban Identity: Questions for Amatrice. Symposium “Creative Heritage”, Leibniz University Hannover |
- Network WAS – Impact Research in Architecture and Urbanism: Interdisciplinary Theories and Methods (DFG Research Network) More information
- Nework Urban Research (NUR) at TU Darmstadt