Let’s Talk Wild! 12 perspectives on the power and paradox of wildness in expanding urban design

Dorothee Rummel is Junior Professor of Urban and Regional Design (Stadt Raum Entwerfen) at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Previously, she spent over ten years teaching and researching as a research assistant at the Chair of Sustainable Urbanism at the Technical University of Munich and the Institute for Urban Design and Urban Theory at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. DorotheeRummel studied Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, the Universität der Künste Berlin, and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, where she also completed her dissertation on urban space reserves (Der Wert des Restraums). Dorothee Rummel is a member of the international and interdisciplinary research community Urban Environments Initiative. Her research and publications focus on urban spatial reserves, inclusion in public spaces, principles and models of coexistence in urban and rural areas, and the interactions between urban space and the human psyche. As a co-founder of XOstudio for architecture and urban planning in Munich, she has been working as a planner and consultant in urban and local development since 2007, alongside her teaching and research activities..Hanna Hemberger is a research assistant at the Chair of Urban and Regional Design at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Previously trained in Translation with a focus on Spanish and English, Hanna went on to study Architecture in Weimar. In March 2024, she completed her master’s degree with her thesis Gewerbe + Gebiet, focusing on the social and ecological entanglements between an urban riverscape and existing commercial areas. Her research is informed by diverse experiences in architectural studios across Weimar, Santiago de Compostela, and Zurich, where she engaged with (landscape) architecture and urban design.