Short CV
- since 2024 Research Fellow and PhD Candidate at the DFG Research Training Group “Societal Transformation and Spatial Materialization of Housing“
- since 2024 freelance contributor for Deutschlandfunk Kultur
- 2022-2024 Master in Urban Studies (Governing the Large Metropolis) at the Institut d’études politiques de Paris
- Thesis: ‘If it must be outstanding, it probably won’t be representative. Mumbai’s ubiquitous housing typology and the World Heritage Paradigm’ supervised by Prof. Sukriti Issar (Centre for Research on Social Inequalities)2018–2022 Studium der Urbanistik an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
- 2018–2022 Bachelor in “Urbanistik” at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
- Thesis: “Bänkemanifest: Alltägliches Erben“ supervised by Prof. Hans-Rudolf Meier and Marcell Hajdu (Chair of Monument Conservation and Building History)
- Internships and work experience at UNESCO – Nominations Unit (Paris), TICCIH-Austria (Vienna), Goethe Institute (Budapest), Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Research (Dresden), Friedrich Ebert Foundation (Budapest)
Research focus
- everyday heritage
- urban and cultural heritage
- world heritage
- value discourses
- post-socialist urban development
- authoritarian urbanism
- housing research
Recent projects
PhD project: Historical Continuities in Housing Construction in the Context of National Authoritarian Hungary – The Single-Family House as a Product of Two Regimes
My current research examines the historical contingency of the societal regime of housing provision in Hungary after 1956. By historical contingency, I do not refer merely to the emergence of building typologies as remnants of the past. I use the term to describe the complex social, political, and economic processes that are central to the production of the current housing regimes. These include, among other factors, institutional path dependencies, regulatory responses to housing shortages, ideologies of private property, and the reproduction of social inequalities.
A central focus of my research is the Kádár Cube, a single-family house typology from the state-capitalist People’s Republic of Hungary, as well as the current housing subsidy program CSOK (Családi Otthonteremtési Támogatás) in national-authoritarian Hungary. Their analysis provides an approach to understanding the formation of Hungary’s existing societal housing regime in its historicity. Through themes of everyday life, path dependency, and seriality, my research also draws connections to heritage studies.