Team ISP - Head of the ISP: Prof. Dr. Heidi Sinning
Short Profile
since 07.2008
Director of ISP - Institute of Urban Research, Planning and Communication
at Erfurt University of Applied Sciences, Erfurt/ Germany
WiSe 2017/18
Visiting Scholarship at
- Wohnforum der ETH Zürich (Centre of Research on Architecture, Society & the Built Environment)
- Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne
10.2012 - 02.2003
Visiting Scholarship at
- OTB - Research Institute for the Built Environment, TU Delft,
- Wohnforum der ETH Zürich (Centre for Research on Architecture, Society & the Built Environment)
- Bartlett School of Planning, University College London (UCL)
2008
Visiting Scholar at the University of Washington, Department of Urban Design and Planning, Seattle/ USA
09.2007
Visiting Scholar at Temple University, Department of Community and Regional Planning, Philadelphia/ USA
since 2003
Professor of City Planning and Communication at Erfurt University of Applied Sciences (till 2009: Planning and Communication)
2002 - 2003
Visiting Professor of “City Management”, Brandenburg Technical University of Cottbus
2000 - 2003
Project Director, Bertelsmann Foundation: Project management and consulting at the local, federal state and federal level
since 2000
Partner of the private agency “KoRiS - Communicative City and Regional Planning” (Planning - Research - Consulting), Hanover/Germany
1994 - 2000
Director of the private planning agency Koris - Communicative Urban and Regional Development (planning - research - consulting), Hanover/ Germany (since then partner of KoRiS)
1994
Researcher in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Hanover
1999 - 2002
Dissertation at Technical University RWTH Aachen (Dr.-Ing.):
Communikative Spatial Planning. Potentials and Restrictions
Priority areas in research and practice
- housing and portfolio development
- integrated urban planning and develpment
- sustainable settlement and open space development
- communicative Planning / governance / civic participation
Project references
For an overview of current and completed projects see ISP und KoRiS.
Prices
2003
Scientific price of the "Foundation of German Cities, Communes and Counties"
1994 - 2000
Several prices for urban and regional planning projects: Bertelsmann Foundation, German Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning, German Ministry of Research and Education, Ministry of Regional Planning of Lower Saxony etc.
1998
Dr. Friedrich Lehner-Price of the Friedrich Lehner-Foundation, Hanover
Memberships
In professional organisations:
- American Planning Association - APA, Chicago
- Association for Spatial Planning - IfR, Dortmund
- Academy for Spatial Research and Regional Planning - ARL, Hannover (corresponding member)
- Federation for Housing and Urban Development Association (vhw) – (member of advisory board / „Kuratorium“)
- German Association for Housing, Urban and Spatial Development - DV, Berlin
- Institute of Housing and Environment (IWU – Institut für Wohnen und Umwelt), Darmstadt – (member of scientific advisory board)
- Association for Urban and Regional Planning – SRL, Berlin
In university committees:
- Member of the commission on "Research and Technology Transfer" of Erfurt University of Applied Sciences
- Vice Dean of Research and Transfer of Faculty of Architectur and City Planning
- Director of the study programme Urban and Regional Planning (2007-2017)
- Member of Faculty Council
More
- numerous publications, lectures and presentations
- member of the editorial board of the journal RaumPlanung
