Sophie Mélix
B01: Peripheralized Rural AreasResearch Associate
Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung (IRS)
Flakenstr. 29-31
15537 Erkner
CV
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)
Research Focus
urban planning and design
Dissertation
Visions of urban futures. Renderings of urban development projects in Lagos and New York.
Publications
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.