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Archived news and events

10/21/2025

Workshop in Dakar on the topic "Ordinary Infrastructures – African Articulations of Urban Infrastructures beyond the Other"

An interdisciplinary roundtable workshop entitled "Ordinary Infrastructures" addresses urban infrastructures in African cities.
Roadside stalls selling plastic jerry cans in the Kariokor area in Nairobi
10/09/2025

New publication by Sophie Schramm on the topic of awkward animals

The article addresses how wild boars and raccoons in Hagen and Wuppertal question existing orders of urban space.
The green logo of TU Dortmund University is standing on a meadow. A smartphone is leaning against it.
09/23/2025

Our research group welcomes visiting scholar Philipa Birago Akuoko from Ghana

Philipa Birago Akuoko is a human geographer from Ghana who will be conducting her research in our department over the next two years.
There is a market in the global south. There are people walking around with goods on their heads, balancing them
08/28/2025

Call for scholars thinking, reading, and writing about urban inhabitation differently

Dr. Paroj Banerjee, Dr. Ishita Chatterjee, and Dr. Raffael Beier are hosting a seminar series focusing on “non-dominant inhabitation,” which is…
08/21/2025

Sophie Schramm gives a lecture for the SchnupperUni on the topic "Urban Water Landscapes of Africa: Diverse Infrastructures, Technologies and Practises Beyond Planning"

As part of the SchnupperUni, Sophie Schramm will give a lecture on the topic of "urban water landscapes of Africa" on 21.08.2025 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:0
The picture shows a woman leaking water from a faucet into a container outside.
07/29/2025

New publication by Raffael Beier

The article analyses how political actors mobilize a moral discourse to criticize practices of renting and selling state-subsidized housing by the…
The picture from South Africa shows RDP houses in Lehae, Johannesburg. In the background you can see a 1 floor building and in the foreground are two children
07/29/2025

New publication by Raffael Beier

The article deals with the lived experiences of non-occupation and secondary mobility in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
A field with many plots of land for sale
07/29/2025

Raffael Beier secures the Seminar Series Award of the Urban Studies Foundation (USF)

Raffael Beier received together with his colleagues a funding through the USF Seminar Series Award 2025-2026.
Laundry hanging between houses in public space on ropes
06/18/2025

Doctorate at IPS research group

The Research group of International Planning Studies (IPS) of the Department of Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University is seeking to fill a…
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