People

Sophie Mélix

Research Associate

Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung (IRS)
Flakenstr. 29-31
15537 Erkner

+49 (0)3362 793-236

since 04/2018
Research Associate at Leibniz-Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS), Research Department „Dynamics of Communication, Knowledge and Spatial Development“, Erkner (near Berlin, Germany)
Research project „Digital Urban Planning: Planning Practices and Physical Arrangements“
since 11/2013
UmbauStadt GbR – urban concepts. urban planning . architecture, Berlin (Germany)
07/2013- 09/2013
Research Associate at the University of Karlsruhe (KIT), Department of Regional Planning and Building in Rural Areas, Karlsruhe (Germany)
Research project: Urban Voids – chances for a sustainable development (German-Korean cooperation funded by BMBF)
04/2010- 04/2012
Student position at Wenzel+Wenzel Architects, Karlsruhe (Germany)
03/2009- 09/2009
Student position at the architecture office of Ateliers 234, Paris (France)
10/2006- 06/2013
Architecture Studies with a specialization on urban design, University of Karlsruhe / KIT (Germany)
01/2011- 08/2011
Studies of Urban Design and Planning, TU Eindhoven (The Netherlands)

Visions of urban futures. Renderings of urban development projects in Lagos and New York.

Publication
- Mélix, Sophie; Singh, Ajit (2021): Die visuelle Refiguration urbaner Zukünfte. Zur Prozessualität von digitalen Architekturvisualisierungen am Beispiel von Hudson Yards in New York. In: Martina Löw, Volkan Sayman, Jona Schwerer und Hannah Wolf (Hg.): Am Ende der Globalisierung. Über die Refiguration von Räumen: transcript Verlag (Re-Figuration von Räumen), S. 231–256.
Keynotes
- (2020) “Digitale Bilder von Stadtentwicklungsprojekten” bei der NKG XVII: Technocultures & Technoscapes,31. Januar 2020, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Deutschland
- (2019) “Digital Urban Planning: Planning-Oriented Actions and Physical-Material Arrangements” (mit Martin Schinagl und Gabriela Christmann), Conference Re-Figuration of Spaces: Mediatization, Mobility, Globalization and Social Dislocation, 21. Februar 2019, Technische Universität Berlin, Deutschland
- (2018) „Digital urban planning: change of practices and built environments“ bei der Konferenz „Alternatives to the Present. A Conference on Architecture, Urbanism, Sociology, Development & Planning“, Kent State University Cleveland (USA), 1./2.11.2018.