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Dr. Carolin Genz
- vhw – the Federal Association for Housing and Urban Development
- cgenz@vhw.de
Short CV
- Dr. Carolin Genz is an urban researcher whose interdisciplinary expertise connects geography, anthropology, and urban design. Her current research focuses on the critical analysis of urban transformation processes, with an emphasis on socio-spatial practices in the fields of housing, protest, gender, and aging, as well as the development of qualitative and visual methods.
- From 2012 to 2022, she held positions at the Department of Geography at Humboldt University Berlin, University of Toronto (Canada), the Georg Simmel Centre for Metropolitan Studies, and the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1265 “Re-figuration of Spaces” at Technische Universität Berlin.
- Since October 2022, she has worked as Senior Researcher and Coordinator of the research cluster “Housing in Urban Development” at vhw – the Federal Association for Housing and Urban Development.
- Since 2017 she has been Co-Director of the “UEL – Urban Ethnography Lab: Multimodal Fieldwork and Collaborative Research” (Georg Simmel Center For Urban Studies, HU Berlin & Institute of Contemporary Design Practices (ICDP), Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW)
Research focus
- Critical urban and spatial research
- Housing research and housing provision
- Protest and movement research
- Feminist urban development policy
- Qualitative and visual methods in spatial and urban research
Recent projects
- „Ontologische (Un)Sicherheiten des Wohnens: Psychoanalytische und feministische Perspektiven auf subjektive Wohnerfahrungen in urbanen Transformationsprozessen“ (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Institut for Human Geography, PostDoc, 2024–2026)
- „Geographische Imaginationen: Sicherheit und Unsicherheit im Generationenvergleich“ (CRC1265 „Re-figuration of Spaces“, guided by Prof. Dr. Ilse Helbrecht, PostDoc, 2019–2022)
- „Protest als soziale Praxis. Eine Ethnographie städtischer Protest- und Netzwerkpraktiken von Senior:innen“ (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Geographical Institute, funded by Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, 2015–2019)
