W2 – Professorship of “Urban Transformations” (m/f/d)

W2 - Professorship of “Urban Transformations” (m/f/d)
Application deadline:
28.01.2025
Date of hire:
as soon as possible
Vacancy number:
38010
to be filled as soon as possible.
The professorship concentrates on practice-oriented research and teaching of urban transformation in the areas of architecture, urban planning and landscape planning from an interdisciplinary perspective.
The professorship is based at the Kassel Institute of Sustainability. 50% of the teaching will be provided in the newly developed sustainability degree programmes (also in the Bachelor's area), the other 50% in the department's degree programmes.
Applicants will have research experience in the field of urban planning and urban governance with a focus on sustainability with particular attention to the resilience of urban systems and their ability to transform. They have a scientific background in urban design, urban planning, landscape architecture, political economy, geography, governance research or sustainability studies. Lectures and seminars will have sustainability-related content at all study levels of the different degree courses, including the B.Sc. program “Sustainability Studies“. In addition to the tasks of academic management, it is expected that interdisciplinary co-operations between the Institute for Sustainability and the various departments of the Faculty of Architecture, Urban Planning and Landscape Planning will be arranged.
The successful applicant will have inter- and transdisciplinary research priorities with spatial concepts. It is expected that s/he has acquired in-depth knowledge in at least two of the following research areas and demonstrated the ability to combine them:

• living labs in urban development
• methods for the future/urban futures
• climate-resistant restructuring of cities
• open space planning
• nature-based solutions
• urban social and green infrastructure
• social justice
• climate justice
• participatory transformation processes
• multifunctional urban spaces

Applicants should also have experience of international and transdisciplinary transformation processes in terms of scientific analysis and reflection as well as implementation of them using the instruments of urban development and urban planning.
The successful applicant will have relevant academic publications as well as a significant project portfolio. The references should reflect the co-production of knowledge on various levels at the interface between science and society, including the co-production of knowledge with various actors at the local level.
Please note:
The Kassel Institute of Sustainability and Faculty of Architecture, Urban Planning and Landscape Planning are striving to increase the proportion of women professors and urge women scholars to apply for the position.
The conditions of employment and performance requirements are in accordance with §§ 67 and 68 of the Hessian Institute of Higher Education Law (Hessisches Hochschulgesetz), in particular a completed university degree, the necessary suitability for academic work and pedagogical suitability.
Please send the following documents with the application; CV, publications list, evidence of teaching experience as well experience of acquiring and executing third party funded projects, (indicating your own contribution), project portfolio as well copies of certificates and documents.
In the event of any differences between the German and English versions of this call for application, the German wording is legally binding.
For further information please contact Prof. Stefan Rettich, Rettich(at)asl.uni-kassel.de Phone: +49 561 804-3217