
Actors
André Losso
Urban Studies
Smart cities, Everyday life,
Right to the City
Curitiba, Brussels
Internationalist, from Communications and Law Studies, drawing into Critical Urban Geography.
Clarissa Kees
Urban Studies
Climate Action, Urban
Mobility, Public Space
Brussels
With a background in development cooperation and sustainable urbanism, Clarissa draws attention to inequalities and climate issues on an urban level.
Josef Adler
Urban Studies
Project Management,
Housing, Finance
Zurich
Josef is one of UKC's fouding members and interested in social and cooperative housing.
Maria Prosviryakova
Urban Studies
Cycling, Interdisciplinary Collaboration, In-depth Interviews
Amsterdam
Journalist by training and avid cyclist by nature, Maria is passionate about sustainable mobility and solution-oriented reporting
Sofia University
Geography
Urban Studies, Urban Geography, Spatial Planning
Sofia
Convinced that such collaboration like UKC will benefit students and practitioners in the field of urban studies from all involved countries.
Universität Wien
Geography and Regional Research
Urban Studies, Global
Change Processes
Vienna
Empowering students to become critical and responsible graduates and global citizens.
Univerzitet u Beogradu
Geography
Urban and Rural Planning, Environmental Protection
Belgrade
Linking and discovering theoretical and methodological achievements of traditional geography with new aspects and ways of geographic science.
Vrije Universiteit Brussels
Urban Studies
Comparative European Geography, Urban History
Brussels
The VUB and ULB jointly offer an interdisciplinary perspective on urban studies
Beatrice Bellavia
Urban Studies
Participatory Processes,
Social innovation
Brussels
Trained as a sociologist, Bea likes to walk, observe and capture the urban on camera.
Estonian Academy of Arts
Urban Studies
Urban Design, Art and The City, Urban Futures, Production of Urban Space
Tallinn
The program combines history, theory and practice to rethink prevailing understandings of urbanization, and to contribute to more equitable urbanisms.
Lou Rosenkranz
Affordable Housing, Critical Urban Methods, Co-designing Urban Futures.
Amsterdam, Berlin
Lou is working at the intersection of activism, art, and urban planning with attention to artistic, and ethnographic methods, a critical engagement with how knowledge and cities get produced and the ambition to create an affordable, just future.
Miriam Rausch
Urban Studies
Trade-offs in Planning, Critical Urbanism, Social Justice
Mannheim
As a sociologist and urbanist by passion, Miriam likes to discuss about and take action in the field of fair and inclusive cities.
Universitatea din București
Geography
Humanistic and Economic
Geography
Bucharest
Enabling a career which aims to embed the graduates into the labour market through the corresponding general and specialized knowledge.
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Urban Studies
Planning and Mobility, Criminology, Urban Design
Brussels
The ULB and VUB jointly offer an interdisciplinary perspective on urban studies
Valentin Hillen
Urban Studies
Knowledge Exchange, Cycling,
Right to the City
Brussels
Valentin co-founded the UKC and is interested in common good oriented projects as well as social affairs and equality.
Brussels Centre for Urban Studies
Urban Research
Inter- and
Transdisciplinarity
Brussels
The Brussels Centre for Urban Studies, one of the largest centres of its kind in Europe, brings together researchers from across the social sciences, humanities and engineering.
HafenCity Universität Hamburg
Urban Design
Process-oriented Planning,
Experimental Interventions
Hamburg
Urban Design re-assembles heterogeneous motifs and disciplinary knowledges of the city.
Malmö University
Urban Studies
Real Estate, Housing, Planning,
Transport
Malmö
A multi-disciplinary department with exciting and multifaceted urban research and study programmes.
Nina Manz
Urban Design
Property Issues, Co-productive Planning,
Knowledge Transfer
Hamburg
Nina is interested in the urban intersections of academia and activism and co-founder of UKC.
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Urban Studies
Comparative Urban Research, Urban and Development Studies
Amsterdam
The two-year Research Master’s in Urban Studies deals with questions surrounding the increasing urbanisation of today’s world.
Université de Lille
Geography, Urban Planning and Development
Territories, Environment,
Society
Lille
Offering a diversified range of courses supported by dynamic research.
Vitaly Matveev
Urban Studies
Housing, Sustainable
Development, GIS
Brussels
A real estate consultant growing into a critical urban geographer.