Michael Ziehl

Research Associate

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 the Co-Production of Urban Resilience and user-driven project development he is running Urban Upcycling – Agency for Urban Resources. Within the City Science Lab at HafenCity University, he is the lead scientist of the transformative research design in the Connected Urban Twins project.

Michael is an associated member of the “LinkLab” working group on transformative research of the German Committee for Sustainability Research (DKN) Future Earth, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Projects

Connected Urban Twins (CUT)

Publications

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

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

Ziehl, M. (2021). Transdisziplinäre Realexperimente und künstlerische Forschungspraktiken. Koproduktion urbaner Resilienz im Reallabor Gängeviertel in Hamburg. Raumforschung und Raumordnung/Spatial Research and Planning, 79(4), 396-410. https://doi.org/10.14512/rur.69

Click here for a complete list of the CSL Hamburg publications.

Activities

Training | Ziehl, M. Just Sustainability Transitions. The Dutch Research Institute For Transitions. Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Lecture | Ziehl, M. (20.09.2023). Transformative experimentelle Stadtforschung im Projekt Connected Urban Twins. The 62nd German Congress of Geography (DKG). Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Contact

michael.ziehl@hcu-hamburg.de

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