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.

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

06/12/2025

Sophie Schramm and Deljana Iossifova give a lecture on urban infrastructure - as part of the seminar for urban research

Sophie Schramm and Deljana Iossifova share findings from their empirical research on urban infrastructure.

06/10/2025

Past F-project "Planning and Dirt", published an article in the current issue of the trade journal RaumPlanung

The article deals critically with implicit assumptions of planning.

06/03/2025

New article on coping strategies published

Girma Mulu Alemu, Sophie Schramm, and Wilbard Jackson Kombe have published an article on the topic of smallholder farmers' coping strategies.

05/22/2025

Lecture by Sophie Schramm on water infrastructure in Nairobi

Under the title "Heterogeneous and ordinary - Nairobi's water infrastructures between everyday life and crisis", Prof. Dr. Sophie Schramm on 21. May…

05/09/2025

ICOLMA Project Website is online

The website for our ICOLMA research project is now online.

04/16/2025

New article on infrastructure segments

New article by D. Nthoki Nyamai and Sophie Schramm discusses the evolution of infrastructure segments in Nairobi.

04/09/2025

List of Thesis Topic Proposals updated

You don't have a topic for your Bachelor's or Master's thesis yet? Then let yourself be inspired by our list of Thesis Topic Proposals!