Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sigrun Langner

Sigrun Langner is professor of Landschaftsarchitektur und -planung at the Bauhaus University Weimar; Deputy Director of the Institute for European Urban Studies; member of the Studio Urbane Landschaften network; since 2003 she has been an office partner in Station C23-Architekten und Landschaftsarchitekten, Leipzig. Her current research focus is on urban landscapes as an expression of urban-rural relational structures. From 2015-2020, she led the sub-project “Urban Landscapes as Projection and Action Space of Sustainable Spatial Development” in the collaborative project “Experimentierfeld Dorf”, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. Since 2019, she has been leading the sub-project “Urban-Rural Landscape and Settlement Transformation” in the joint project “Urban-Rural Assembly” (URA), funded by the BMBF research program “Sustainable Development of Urban Regions”. Her research incorporates mapping methods as a performative understanding and knowledge generation practice.