Hannah Strothmann

Hannah Strothmann is an architect, urban historian, researcher and writer. She is a doctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Centre Intervening Arts / Berlin University of the Arts, where she is also a guest lecturer. Hannah's doctoral research examines the rise and fall of planning theory in architecture and design from the 1950s until the 1980s along notions of scientification, democratization and computerization, and considers the implications of this theoretical intervention for contemporary architectural discourse and practice. Hannah's broader research interests include the social implications of architecture, ideas of designing (for different futures), contested urban spaces and water environments. She also works as independent writer and architectural journalist. Her journalistic work has been published by Baunetz, Bauwelt and CARTHA, amongst others. Previously, she has been a curatorial researcher at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, a museum and research center in Montréal that operates on the premise that architecture is a public concern. There, she was the content producer for a documentary trilogy that examined the ways in which changing societies and economic pressures affect the homes of various communities. The series was screened at international film festivals and the UN Commission for Social Development. Hannah was also part of the CCA's curatorial team for the exhibition »A Section of Now: Social Norms and Rituals as Sites for Architectural Intervention«. Recently, she was awarded the Alice Ross Carey Fellowship by Berkeley's Environmental Design Archive to continue her research on »minimal interventions« as critical tools for contemporary design practice.