A key objective of the cities building culture project is to establish a network of experts from both research and practice who are engaged in topics such as mass housing transformation, urban resilience and sustainability, resource management, and climate adaptation. By sharing knowledge, exchanging experiences, and collaborating on initiatives, we aim to advance sustainable urban development. This growing network is envisioned to serve as a foundation for launching new projects and developing collaborative activities.
Senior Lecturer, Department of Information Technologies in Architecture, Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture; Postdoctoral Visiting Researcher, Institute for Design Strategies (IDS), Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences and Arts (TH OWL) (Germany/Ukraine)
Fields of Expertise:
- Urban Resilience
- Transformations in Post-Soviet Large-Scale Housing Estates
- Blue-Green Infrastructure in Residential Areas
Research Fellow, Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, Germany
Fields of Expertise:
- post-war reconstruction; coming to terms with the past after war and dictatorship, transitional justice, political emotions, memory practices; the relationship between memory and urban space
Department of Geography, Bourgogne Europe University
Fields of Expertise:
- dissonant heritage
- socialist modernist architecture
- postsocialist cities
Associate Professor, Department of Architecture of Buildings and Structures (OSACEA) Odesa (Ukraine)
Fields of Expertise:
- Problems of regenerating historic urban fabric and preserving architectural and urban-planning heritage sites
Senior Researcher and Associate Professor, Università degli Studi di Tor Vergata (Rome)
Fields of Expertise:
- EU policies and their impacts on cities and territories
Planungsbüro Hamann + Krah
Fields of expertise:
- urban development
- urban design
- urban planning law
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the German Foundation for Monument Protection, Honorary President of ICOMOS Germany, Honorary Professor of TU Berlin, Expert for 20th century heritage
Fields of Expertise:
- Urban Heritage Conservation Management
- Dissonant Heritage
- Ambivalent Modern Movement
Managing Director, Housing Initiative for Eastern Europe (Initiative Wohnungswirtschaft Osteuropa (IWO) e.V.) Berlin (Germany)
Fields of Expertise:
- Housing Policy
- Energy-Efficient Buildings
- Eastern Europe Development
Director of the architecture and urban planning office RETHINK; lecturer at the Paris-La Villette School of Architecture.
Field of Expertise:
- Design and construction in existing contexts, and French-German collaborations
Kompetenzzentrum Großsiedlungen e.V. , Berlin, Germany
Fields of Expertise:
- renewal of big post-war housing estates
- social management of neigbourhoods
- occupancy policies and social segregation
Associate Researcher, Lab'URBA, Paris // PhD in Geography, Université Lumière Lyon 2
Fields of Expertise:
- urban studies
- large housing estates
- (post-)Soviet residential areas
- wartime urban planning
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Fields of Expertise:
- Urban Heritage
- Planning and policy
- Transnational architecture and urbanism
Art Station Gallery, Silk Road International University, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Fields of Expertise:
- Post-socialist mass housing transformation and urban heritage in Central Asia, with a focus on social change, everyday practices and transformation of urban heritage
Associate Professor, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
Fields of Expertise:
- urban planning, sustainable architecture, urban history in the 20th century
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Fields of Expertise:
- Urbanity in Central Asia and the Caucasus
Assistant Professor, Department of Political and Historical Geography and Regional Studies, University of Lodz / Research Fellow, GWZO Leipzig
Fields of Expertise:
- historical and urban geography
- settlement morphology
- heritage studies
TU Darmstadt, Faculty of Architecture, Darmstadt, Germany
Fields of Expertise:
- Urban renewal & transformation with a focus on post-industrial contexts
- strategic long-term planning
- sustainability and resilience
- cultural heritage and sense of place
- human-centered, inclusive urban environments
Department of Landscape Studies, University of Turku (Finland/Ukraine)
Fields of Expertise:
- Placemaking
- Urban Sustainability
- Landscape and Urban Studies
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Geology, Yerevan State University; Founder, urbanlab, Armenia
Fields of Expertise:
- post-socialist cities
- cultural landscape protection
- valorisation of modernist heritage
Institute of Sociology at the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, Department of Regional and Urban Studies Vilnius, Lithuania
Fields of Expertise:
- urban and regional geography
- urban shrinkage
- gentrification
Architectural and Art Institute (OSACEA) Odesa (Ukraine)
Fields of Expertise:
- Sustainable development of urban territories and the transformation of the post-Soviet architectural and urban-planning environment
Department of Construction, Architecture and Design, Kherson State Agrarian and Economic University (Ukraine)
Fields of Expertise:
- Modernist Architectural Heritage
- Constructivist Urban Form
- Transformation of the 20th-Century Urban Environment
Doctoral Candidate, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Fields of Expertise:
- European urban and intellectual history ("long" 20th century
- architecture and urban planning
- historical heritage and legacies
Assistant professor in Heritage & Architecture, TU Delft
Fields of Expertise:
- housing heritage
- neighborhood renovation
- building systems and intervention methods
Managing Director, Metropolitan Research Institute, Budapest
Fields of Expertise:
- adaptive heritage reuse
- housing policy
- energy refurbishments
Assistant Professor at the Chair of Applied Sociology, Faculty of Sociology, Yerevan State University
Fields of Expertise:
- post-industrial urban transformations
- shrinking cities
- socio-spatial change in the post-Soviet context
Head of the Chair of Theory and History of Sociology, Yerevan State University
Fields of Expertise:
- ideological and cultural transformations of urban space
- the crisis of social identities
- the evolving narratives of place in post-socialist cities
The American University of Rome Graduate Program in Cultural Heritage / Department of Archaeology and Classics
Johns Hopkins University Graduate Program in Cultural Heritage Management
Fields of Expertise:
- cultural heritage
- urban planning
- preservation/conservation
- architectural history
- Caucasus region
- modern architecture
- Soviet history
Senior Research Fellow, Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde, Leipzig, Germany
Fields of Expertise:
- urban studies
- digitalization in urban spaces
- ruptured cities