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.

26. September 2025

Looking back with PhD Candidate Joanna Jurkiewicz

Joanna Jurkiewicz

LolMyThesis. To summarize the main idea of my thesis in one sentence is really hard:/! Here is my attempt: I wrote a whole dissertation to say that cross-cultural encounters aren’t […]

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12. September 2025

Looking back with PhD Candidate Simon C. Pohl

Simon Pohl

LolMyThesis. If I had to summarize the main idea of my dissertation in one or two sentences, I would say: Somehow capital always finds new ways to undermine public control. […]

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5. September 2025

Looking back with PhD Candidate Zozan Baran

Zozan Baran

LolMyThesis. If I had tosummarize my dissertation’s main idea in a sentence, I would say: Places and connections have always been crucial for activists and social movements. What I want […]

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29. August 2025

Looking back with Postdoc Jochen Kibel

Dr. Jochen Kibel

LolMyPaper. I’d summarize my latest paper like this:When people change, adapt or rebuild the spaces in which they live, they also develop a different sense of themselves. Interacting with spaces […]

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22. August 2025

Looking back with PhD Candidate Jae-Young Lee

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 CRC concepts that […]

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15. August 2025

Looking back with PhD Candidate Carl-Jan Dihlmann

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 in rural areas […]

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8. August 2025

Looking back with PhD Candidate Francesca Ceola

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 displacing the poor […]

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1. August 2025

Looking back with Postdoc Indrawan Prabaharyaka

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 writing instead make […]

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