Short CV
- since 2024 Research Fellow and PhD Candidate at the DFG Research Training Group “Societal Transformation and Spatial Materialization of Housing“
- 2020–2024 Working as an architect in Berlin and Munich
- 2016–2020 Studies of Architecture (M. A.) at the Technical University Munich
- 2017/2018 Exchange student at the University of Tokyo, Japan
- 2012–2016 Studies of Architecture (B.Sc.) at the Technische Universität Berlin
Recent projects
Housing as a pay-per-use service. Effects of the sharing economy on forms of housing and housing practices using the example of micro-apartments
The initial thesis of the dissertation is that ‘micro-apartments’ are simultaneously a manifestation, setting and catalyser of the sharing economy, whose principles and logics are applied in a variety of consumer offers in the housing sector.
According to the sharing logic, the fully furnished micro-apartment is commodified into a uniformly designed lifestyle product that corresponds to hegemonic ideas of living and is rented out to interchangeable consumers in short usage cycles at high all-inclusive rents. This form of housing and its growing range can be read as a spatial formulation of financial interests that directly shape private and urban spaces. As flexible housing solutions, they offer advantages for certain target groups and usage scenarios, but raise questions regarding quality of living, social impact, legal framework conditions, sustainability and the need for regulation, among other things. How do micro-apartments influence social coexistence and identification with the place of residence; urban development and the use of public space; the housing market and the availability of affordable housing?
Research on ‘micro-apartments’ is still in its infancy and the aim of the dissertation is to use an interdisciplinary research approach to analyse the complex interactions between micro-apartments and the urban environment.