Dr. Susanne Gerstberger
- Scientific staff
- Research group “Karlsruhe Transformation Center for Sustainability and Cultural Change”
- Room: 207
- Phone: +49 721 608-23213
- susanne gerstberger ∂does-not-exist.kit edu
Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse (ITAS)
Postfach 3640
76021 Karlsruhe
Fields of work
- Sustainable urban development strategies (in the context of UNESCO biosphere reserves)
- Designing urban transformation based on nature-based solutions (NbS)
- Urban metabolism, co-habitation and human nature
- Design-based research (DbR) in the context of university teaching (LhF) as a transformative research method
- Designing innovative and transformative teaching, learning and educational processes
Professional background
| since 2024 | Scientific staff member at ITAS, Research group “Karlsruhe Transformation Center for Sustainability and Cultural Change” |
| 2024 | PhD at KIT on the topic “Biosphere + City. The 'Man and Biosphere Program in Process' for researching urban transformation processes under the premise of the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve - An action plan for the urban transformation strategy: BiosphereCITY. Case Study: Arrecífe (Lanzarote, Spain)” |
| 2014 - 2024 | Research assistant at the KIT at the Institute of Urban and Landscape Design, Chair of Landscape Architecture with teaching activities in Europe, South America and Asia |
| 2002 - 2013 | Activities as an architect at the interface between urban planning and landscape architecture |
| 2002 | Dipl.-Ing. (arch) at TU Karlsruhe (today Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) |
Selected publications
Gerstberger, S. (2019)
DIESE NATUR! 2.0 EcoID:Landschaft als urbane Identität. arch.lab.docs #1+2. DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000129801
Gerstberger, S. (2019)
Das UrbanLab:Arrecife als architekturwissenschaftlicher Beitrag zur Erforschung transformativer Prozesse im urbanen Kontext. IS THIS THE REAL WORLD? Perfect Smart Cities vs. Real Emotional Cities. Proceedings of REAL CORP 2019, 24th International Conference on Urban Development, Regional Planning and Information Society. pp. 199-208.ISSN 2521-3938
Gerstberger, S. (2016)
Lp(R)evolution: A City on the Way to the Future Las Palmas: ParkCity. Proceedings of the Fábos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning: Vol. 5: Iss. 1, Article 39. DOI: 10.7275/fabos.618