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Graduate Student, Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology
PhD candidate
Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology
Thesis Title: Planning Creative Cities - the cases of Dublin and Gothenburg
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Birgit Geissler
Andreas Reckwitz |
About
As sociologist, I hold a scholarship at the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology, University of Bielefeld, Germany.
I am always interested in (inter)national and (inter)disciplinary cooperation and discussion of topics associated with my research interests. Presently, special focus is on urban planning and urban sociology as well as on research concerned with architecture and materiality. This is due to the research for my Ph.D. thesis:
Ph.D. project on ‘Creative Cities and the cases of Dublin and Gothenburg’
Regional urban politics and its political attempts to govern the planning of cities and regions constitute a relatively new field which reflects the orientation towards a culture of creativity. This is particularly visible in the overall concept of the so-called 'creative city'. This field is connected to the aspect of a possible 'cultural integration' in a twofold way: On the one hand, the political field – in the sense of a governmentality with an overall societal orientation – calls for the formulation of programmes of governance which go beyond single social systems and tries to link them. On the other hand, this form of political governance is, on a local level, directed towards a transformation of the materiality of spaces. These spaces, i.e. the structuring and design of city districts, buildings, traffic routes etc., then form the overall frame – in the sense of a dispositive – for possible practices and forms of subjectivity.
Point of departure for this project is the assumption that the concept of the 'creative city' as a booming place of work and living for the emerging 'creative class' has had (and still has) an impact on the politics of city development in the major cities of North America and Western Europe since the 1990's. With the help of two case studies from Western Europe, Dublin in Ireland and Gothenburg in Sweden, it shall be analysed what specific forms these politics of city development take and how these politics affect the transformation of private and public spaces.
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