since 2019
Ph.D. candidate at the University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Astrid Ley), working title of thesis ‘Mechanisms of conflictual co-productive processes: The example of housing decommodification in Berlin’
since 2016
Research associate at the University of Stuttgart, Institute of Urban Planning and Design – Department of Local and Regional Planning
2014
Research on large housing estates in small and medium-sized German cities (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Johann Jessen)
2013
Diploma of architecture and urban planning (double degree) at the University of Stuttgart, on the participative redevelopment of large housing estates of the post-war period
CV Summary
Isabelle Willnauer holds a diploma in architecture and urban planning from the University of Stuttgart. She is research associate and lecturer at the Institute of Urban Planning and Design, Department of Local and Regional Planning. Her research interests lie on housing, participation and co-production.
Following on from the topic of her diploma thesis, she has been conducting research on the specific situation of large housing estates of the post-war period in small and medium-sized German cities. Since 2016 she is research associate and lecturer at the SI. Her teaching focus is strategic spatial planning with particular regard to actor’s arrangements as well as formal and informal planning instruments. She has initial expertise as a freelance advisor in process design, co-design and strategic planning with multi-stakeholders.
PUBLICATIONS AND EXPERTISE (SELECTION)
Willnauer, I. (2021): ‘Embracing conflict: a way to make co-production transformative?’ In: Trialog 137, pp. 12-16
Jessen, J. and Willnauer, I. (2019): ‘Kleine Städte mit großen Siedlungen: Probleme und Herausforderungen’. In: Forum Stadt 3, pp. 229-248
Baumgärtner, C., Jessen, J. and Willnauer, I. (2018): ‘Große Siedlungen in kleinen Städten: Probleme, Herausforderungen, Perspektiven’. Stuttgart: Wüstenrot Stiftung, 207 p.
Ludwig, F., Schönle, D. and Willnauer, I. (2017): ‘Typologien und Trägerschaften im Wohnungsbau’. In: Wie wohnen? Dokumentation des Symposiums ‘Grundlagen und Strategien im Umgang mit der Wohnungsfrage in der Region Stuttgart’. Stuttgart: Städtebau-Institut, pp. 7-21
Selected Presentations
2021
Urban space – public space: perception, use and effects of the pandemic in Germany. Held online during the workshop „Future cities: mapping decadal change in morphology of urban spaces“ organised by Goethe-Institut / May Mueller Bhavan New Delhi
2019
Theorien der Planung – ein Überblick von den 1950er Jahren bis hin zu aktuellen Diskursen. Held at the seminar ‘Strategische Stadtentwicklung’, University of Stuttgart
2018
Großsiedlungen in Klein- und Mittelstädten – Probleme, Herausforderungen, Perspektiven (Large Housing Estates of the 1950s to 1970s in small and medium sized Cities – Problems, Challenges, Perspectives). Held with Prof. Johann Jessen at the Conference ‘Stadterneuerung in Klein- und Mittelstädten’, University of Technology Kaiserslautern
2017
Wie wohnen? Keynote at the Symposium ‘Wie wohnen? Grundlagen und Strategien im Umgang mit der Wohnungsfrage in der Region Stuttgart’, University of Stuttgart
