Dr. Dipl.-Ing. Michael Ziehl is an Urbanist and Urban Researcher. Besides his doctoral degree in Philosophy (Metropolitan Culture) he holds a Master of Science in the field of Urban Planning and is a graduate engineer in the field of Architecture. As expert in urban transformation, multi-stakeholder cooperation and user-driven project development he runs his office urban upcycling. At City Science Lab, among others, he was the lead scientist for transformative research design in the “Connected Urban Twins” (CUT) project and is now responsible for implementing the “Participation 4 Climate” (P4C) project.

Projects

Participation 4 Climate (P4C)

Connected Urban Twins (CUT)

Urban Digital Twins Conference 2025

Google AirView

Publications

Ziehl, M., Niggemann, M., Degkwitz, T., Herzog, R., Panten, A., Meincke, C., & Ziemer, G. (2025). Wie wärs wenn... wir die Zukunft der digitalen Stadt gemeinsam gestalten? Handlungsanregungen für Entscheidungsträger:innen in Politik und Verwaltung - Bericht der transformativen Forschung im Projekt Connected Urban Twins (CUT). HafenCity University Hamburg. https://doi.org/10.34712/142.77

Othengrafen, F., Ziehl, M., & Herrmann, S. (2024). Community Resilience: Transformative Capacity as driver for social cohesion and sustainable development. In F. Othengrafen, S. Herrmann, D. Pencic, S. Lazarevski (Eds.), Social Cohesion and Resilience through Citizen Engagement: A Place-based Approach. Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035317103.00011

Ziehl, M., Herzog, R., Degkwitz, T., Niggemann, M. H., Ziemer, G., & Thoneick, R. (2023). Transformative Research in Digital Twins for Integrated Urban Development: Two Real-World Experiments on Unpaid Care Workers Mobility. International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR), 12(1), 1-18. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJEPR.333851

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Activities

Monitoring | Action Plan for the City of Hamburg's Sustainability Strategy. Open Government Partnership (OGPlocal).

Member of the Editorial Board | Urban Digital Twins for a Sustainable Transformation of Cities. Journal of Urban Technology.

Associated Membership | LinkLab working group on transformative research. German Committee for Sustainability Research (DKN) Future Earth, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Training | Just Sustainability Transitions. The Dutch Research Institute For Transitions.

Contact

michael.ziehl@hcu-hamburg.de

For more information on Dr. Dipl.-Ing. Michael Ziehl, please visit his personal website here.