Academic Staff

Robert Barbarino, M.Sc.

Profile

I am a trained urban geographer and worked as a research assistant in the IPS research group at the Institute of Spatial Planning from 2018 to 2022. My research interests cover urban diversity policies, governance in the neoliberal city, as well as real-world labs and social movements. I like to engage in transformative and participatory research approaches using qualitative methods.

I am currently pursuing my PhD research on the production of migration in participatory urban development, using Berlin as a case study.

Robert Barbarino (2020)

CV

Academic education:

Since 2019: Doctoral candidate, Working title: “Producing migration in Berlin’s participatory urban development”, working group Applied Geography and Spatial Planning, Geography Department, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
2013: ERASMUS Study Geography, University of Granada, Spain
2011 – 2015: M.Sc. Geography, University of Bonn, Germany
2007 – 2011: B.Sc. Geography, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
2009 – 2010: Study abroad Geography, University of Havana, Cuba

Work experience:

Since 2018: Researcher, project INTERPART, IPS, Department of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund, Germany
2016 – 2018: Researcher, project StatusDiversity, Institute for Urban Development, University of Kassel, Germany

Language skills:

German: Mother tongue
English: Business fluent
Spanish: Competent language use
Italian: Basic knowledge

Research

Research areas:

Urban diversity policies
Governance in the neoliberal city
Social movements
Real-world laboratories
Visual qualitative methods

Research projects (at IPS):

Since 2021: Animals in Spatial Planning
2018 – 2021: INTERPART (Intercultural Spaces of Participation), BMBF

Publications:

Barbarino, R., Herlo, B. (2022) 'Zwischen Sprachen und Logiken Übersetzungsleistungen in der Stadtentwicklung' in pnd-rethinking planning. https://doi.org/10.18154/RWTH-2022-051
Barbarino, R. (2021): ‘Vom Participatory Action Research lernen? Postkoloniale und feministische Theorien im Reallabor als Bindeglied zu einer Angewandten Kritischen Geographie’, in Berichte- Geographie und Landeskunde, 94(4). pp 335-351. https://doi.org/10.25162/bgl-2021-0017.
Autor*innen-Kollektiv INTERPART (2021) ‘Beteiligung interkulturell gestalten: Ein Lesebuch zu partizipativer Stadtentwicklung’, Berlin: jovis. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783868599923
Barbarino, R., Räuchle, C. and Scholz, W. (2021) ‘Migration-Led Institutional Change in Urban Development and Planning’, in Urban Planning, 6(2). pp 1-6. doi: 10.17645/up.v6i2.4356.
Barbarino, R. and Meissner, F. (2018) Methoden der Datenerhebung. Working Paper 1. Status Diversity. University of Twente.
Barbarino, R. and Meissner, F. (2018) Bilder des Ankommens in Kassel. Working Paper 2. Status Diversity. University of Twente
Barbarino, R. (2015) ‘Diversity as a political strategy in contemporary German urban development’, in Monteverdia, 8(2).