Blog | Looking Back

In this blog series, we give our early career researchers the opportunity to look back on the past four years. The doctoral and postdoctoral researchers provide individual insights into their everyday life at the CRC, their research work and the spatial arrangements they need for creative and productive work. In addition, they report on the insights they have gained during their studies.

22. August 2025

Looking back with PhD Candidate Jae-Young Lee

By Jae-Young Lee LolMyThesis. My thesis in a tagline: So you think the remote rural mountain cabin you booked on AirBnB is so edgy? It’s all about that space. The […]

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15. August 2025

Looking back with PhD Candidate Carl-Jan Dihlmann

By Carl-Jan Dihlmann LolMyThesis. If I had to summarize my PhD in one sentence: People feel more at ease in peripheral areas due to beautiful landscapes and quiet neighborhoods. People […]

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8. August 2025

Looking back with PhD Candidate Francesca Ceola

By Francesca Ceola LolMyThesis. If I had to summarize my thesis in one sentence, I would say that urban development is, unsurprisingly, being carried out as business as usual, aka […]

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1. August 2025

Looking back with Postdoc Indrawan Prabaharyaka

By Indrawan Prabaharyaka LolMyPaper While existing studies primarily celebrate Stuttgart as a successful case study of the application of climatology in urban planning, the papers I have written and am […]

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25. July 2025

Looking back with PhD Candidate Zoé Perko

By Zoé Perko LolMyThesis. The themes of my thesis in a nutshell: Even when countries agree to open their borders, not everyone gets the same access—many barriers remain, but people […]

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18. July 2025

Looking back with Postdoc Sezgin Sönmez

By Sezgin Sönmez Postdoc’ing at the CRC. If I had to summarise my current research interest, I would say: India is now really getting going with digitalization, including banking, biometric […]

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11. July 2025

Looking back with PhD Candidate Christina Hecht

By Christina Hecht LolMyThesis. The working title of my thesis is “Of Figures and Fictions. The Strategic Action Field around Airbnb in Cape Town and Berlin”. In a nutshell, one […]

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4. July 2025

Looking back with PhD Candidate Daddy Dibinga

By Daddy Dibinga LolMyThesis. I analyze the links between filming locations, the spaces captured within the television series, and the social imaginaries conveyed to understand the refiguration of Francophone West […]

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