Current projects

Research projects at IPS are characterized by interdisciplinarity and changing spatial focus areas. Current projects address the following topics:

Migration and translocality
Urban infrastructures and Covid-19
Governance and resilient cities
Housing programs and resettlement

ICOLMA

© Universität Passau

MiTra|WA

Completed Projects

View of many houses from a hill

© Nick Nowara/ TU Dortmund

Lima's extended urban fringe: Housing and housing finance strategies in San Juan de Lurigancho

Small state-built houses at a street with children in the Lahae area in Johannesburg

© Raffael Beier

Moving Decisions of Slum Dwellers after Resettlement

Many people queuing at a newly errected free-water point in the Kibera area in Nairobi

© Moritz Kasper/TU Dortmund

Urban waterscapes and the pandemic

Graphic overview of the modules and their linkages within the GOPLAREA project

© Genet Alem/TU Dortmund

GOPLAREA

Girl in front of pin wall with notes as part of the INTERPART project in Berlin

© Michael Shenbrot/UdK

INTERPART