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Barbara Schönig Editor & Author

Verena von Beckerath is an architect and cofounder of the architecture firm Heide & von Beckerath in Berlin. She has been chair of Design and Housing at the Bauhaus-Universität in Weimar since 2016. Her teaching and research focus on the architecture of dwelling and forms of community.

Barbara Schönig joined the Bauhaus-Universität in Weimar as professor of urban planning in 2012. From 2013 to 2021 she was director of the Institute for European Urban Studies in the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism. Her research and publications focus on interdisciplinary housing research as well as urban development and participation in the context of societal transformation