Kim Carlotta Von Schönfeld
Field of work
I have recently finalised the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Post-Doctoral Fellowship, leading the MobileWorlds (EU website here - project website here). I developed the project with Prof. Wendy Tan. Fieldwork was carried out in Bergen, Norway, and Porto, Portugal.
MobileWorlds explored how we as people might be able to break out of unhelpful boxes 📦 (or even identify the boxes we tend to use) and think anew about individual, group and systemic pathways for our joint futures, and those of generations to come. To do so, we combined insights from various areas, connecting planning with geography, art, post-growth, economics, history, psychology, children, literature and more. I connect the research in particular in the area of mobility, proximity and transport, but also reflect on their relevance beyond this field.
I also work in the area of Participation and Co-Creation more broadly, (participatory) Cultures of Water (see e.g. the New European Bauhaus Project Minante and the Special Issue on Cultures of Water), and in the field of post-growth, collaborative and alternative planning, with applications in the areas of:
- Tactical Urbanism
- Street Experiments
- Third Cultures
- Alternative Mobility Values
and more.
Courses taught
I lecture in the MOA256 course on Scientific Theory and Methods, which I have previously helped coordinate, and (co-) supervise theses in MOA300. I also act as guest lecturer in other courses, such as MOA270 on Urban Design for Sustainable Mobility, alongside Wendy Tan.
Research areas
- Urban and Regional Planning
- Sustainable Mobility
- Post-growth Planning
- Third Cultures
- Transdisciplinarity
- Governance / Participation
- Arts-based methods
- Planning with children
Publications
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From Riverbank to Ocean: Involving Young Generations With Their Territory Through Artistic Practices
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Questioning streets. On plural origins, plural uses, and plural futures
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Interweaving environment, heritage, and society through Cultures of Water. An introduction
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Beyond Car‐Centred Adultism? Exploring Parental Influences on Children’s Mobility
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Shrinking Cities for Economic Growth? Insights From the Housing Sector