Projects and Initiatives
Retired since 2021
2014–2018: From 2014 to 2018, oversaw the L. Fritz Gruber Prize
2013 – 2021 Oversees the faculty programme Artist in Residence
2013 – 2021 Ongoing research project: Space as an instrument in the prison system, in cooperation with Iserlohn Prison
2011- 2021 Chair of the Culture Committee of the Faculty of Human Sciences, Cologne
Since 2010: UPPS (Uses of Private and Public Space) in cooperation with Prof. Dr Christina Threuter, Trier University of Applied Sciences
2010 Survey on students’ mobility patterns on the university campus, a sub-project of the master plan updates for the University of Cologne, in cooperation with the University of Cologne’s Department of Building
2009 Symposium “The Use of Architecture”, University of Cologne
2009 Project “Back to Square One – Disrupting Spatial Routines in a University Functional Space” in collaboration with the M:AI, Museum of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Gelsenkirchen
since 2006: Key areas of focus in teaching and research: Space and the Body, Material Culture, User Concepts of Space
2002–2006 Dean of Research at the Faculty of Human Sciences, Cologne
2000 Called to the University of Cologne as Professor of Aesthetic Theory, specializing in Space and Material Culture
1999 Postdoctoral qualification at the University of Dortmund on the relationship between philosophy, art and architecture using textile forms of habitation as an example
1997–1999 Living in Transition: Student project in temporary accommodation, Schwerte, in cooperation with the City of Schwerte
1990–1997 BAUSTELLE – Society for the Design of Models of Reality. Spatial installations in cooperation with F.X. Baier
1990–1997 Lecturer at the HdK (now UdK), Berlin, and at the Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg
1987/1989 Research residencies in Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan, on the Japanese dance form Butoh
1986–2000 Research assistant, University of Dortmund, focusing on material culture and housing forms of nomadic ethnic groups