Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Astrid Ley
Personal Data
Born on 30. December 1974 in Cologne, Germany
Current positions: half-time Post-Doc research position at Habitat Research Unit (Prof. Dr. em.
Peter Herrle) and half-time teaching position at Habitat Unit (Prof. Dr. Philipp Misselwitz), TU
Berlin (both until mid of March 2014)
Education
01/2005-02/2009
Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing. in Architecture), Technische Universität Berlin
Dissertation on “Housing as Governance. Interfaces between Local
Government and Civil Society Organisations in Cape Town, South
Africa”, submitted and presented “with distinction”
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Peter Herrle and Prof. Dr. Volker Kreibich
09/98 – 07/01
10/94 – 08/97
Graduate Engineer (Dipl.-Ing. in Architecture and Urban Design),
Rheinisch-Westfälisch Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen
Thesis on „Strategies for sustainable urban development in South
African townships“, completed with “sehr gut” (very good)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Klaus Selle and Prof. Dr. Christian Krause
09/97 – 08/98
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy (Erasmus year)
Teaching Experience
since 06/2012
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Status as visiting senior lecturer
since 09/2009
Habitat Unit, TU Berlin
Senior lecturer in the Master of Urban Design and the Urban Design Dual
Master Program (with the Tongji University in Shanghai), Master of
Architecture and Master of City and Regional Planning
since 2006
Supervision of master thesis in the postgraduate programme Urban
Management Studies and Urban Design Master programme, TU Berlin
08/2011 –
09/2012
Parenting time (Elternzeit)
2005 - 2011
Urban Management Studies, TU Berlin
Lecturer for international postgraduate programme, module “Local
government and local governance” (2005 together with Prof. Dr. UweJens Walther and Simon Güntner, 2007-2011 together with Dr. Dirk
Heinrichs)
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01/10 – 07/2010
School of Architecture and Planning, University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
DAAD short term lectureship teaching in postgraduate programme MSc
Housing (housing theory) and Master of Urban Design (design studio)
2009 and 2010
German University of Technology (GUtech), Muscat, Oman
Short-courses on Environmental Basics, BSc Urban Planning and
Architectural Design
2007
UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
Short-course on „Mexico City 2050“ as part of the DAAD summer school
10/2003 -07/2009 Habitat Unit, TU Berlin
Teaching in the Master of Urban Design and the Urban Design Dual
Master Program (with the Tongji University in Shanghai), Master of
Architecture and Master of City and Regional Planning
Research Experience
since 07/2011
Habitat Research Unit, Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)
Post-Doc research position within the DFG-funded research project
“Housing for the Urban Poor: From Local Action to Global Networks”
(research director: Prof. Dr. em. Peter Herrle)
since 2010
German University of Technology (GUtech), Muscat, Oman
Consultant for urban governance in the research project “Towards
Sustainable Patterns of Urbanisation in Oman”, funded by Omani
Research Council (research director: Prof. Dr. Sonja Nebel)
08/2011 –
09/2012
Parenting time (Erziehungsjahr)
01/2005 -02/2009 Habitat Unit, Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)
Ph.D. research on “Housing as Governance. Interfaces between Local
Government and Civil Society Organisations in Cape Town, South Africa”
Additional Professional Experience: Consultancy and Training
since 2013
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Member of panel of service providers to Urban Transformation Project,
South African Research Chairs initiative in Development Planning and
Modelling (Prof. Dr. Philip Harrison)
2012
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Fundraising and conceptualizing the relaunch of the Centre of Built
Environment Studies (CUBES)
2011
Urban Management Studies, TU Berlin (on behalf of GIZ)
Conceptualization, coordination and moderation of course on “Social
Inclusive Cities” for experts and decision-makers from Nepal
2011
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Conceptualizing housing policy roundtables at the Centre of Built
Environment Studies (CUBES)
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2011
oikos human settlements research group (on behalf of GIZ)
Evaluation of periodic planning in Nepal
2010
oikos human settlements research group (on behalf of the Urban
Poor Fund International)
Desktop study on the role of new urban associations in Africa
2009
Urban Management Studies, TU Berlin (on behalf of GTZ)
Conceptualization, coordination and moderation of course on “Local
Governance Improvement Strategies” for experts and decision-makers
from Bangladesh
2009
Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
Consultant/ coordination of young experts in GTZ Good Urban
Governance Project with focus on secondary cities, Bangladesh
2008
oikos human settlements research group (on behalf of GTZ)
Study on khans of the old town of Damascus, Syria
2008
oikos human settlements research group (on behalf of GTZ)
Development of governance indicators for GTZ urban development
projects
2007
oikos human settlements research group (on behalf of IIED)
Evaluation of land strategies by federation groups of Shack/Slum
Dwellers International in South Africa and Malawi
2006
ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability and City of Cape Town
Assistance during ICLEI World Congress 2006 “Out of Africa: Local
Solutions for Challenges”, Cape Town, South Africa
2005
oikos human settlements research group (on behalf of GTZ)
Strategy paper on urban development in the development context
2004 and 2005
Technische Fachhochschule Berlin (on behalf of InWent)
Conceptualization and coordination of compact courses on
Decentralisation/LA21 and GIS for planning experts from African
countries
03/02 – 10/2003
Bundesweite Servicestelle Lokale Agenda 21, Agenda-Transfer
(Agency for Sustainable Development), Bonn
Project coordinator, advisory service, project conception, coordination of
committees and workshops, public relation, organisation of conferences,
lectures, research and publication on LA21
2002
ASA-Programme, InWent
Conceptualization and coordination of Rio+10 Campaign
2001
City of Cape Town/ Konkreter Friedensdienst (CDG)
Transfer, adaptation and implementation of Local Agenda 21 project “21
households”
2000
City of Cape Town, ASA-Programme (CDG)
LA 21 project documentation in Aachen and Cape Town
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Membership of Professional Bodies
since 2005
N-AERUS Network Association of European Researchers on
Urbanization in the South
since 2002
TRIALOG – Association for Scientific Research into Planning and
Building in the Developing World (from 2007 to 2010 member of
executive board, since 2010 member of extended executive board)
since 2011
Research Committee 21 (RC21) on Sociology of Urban and Regional
Development of the International Sociological Association
Scholarships, Grants and Fellowships
2012
DAAD grant for lecture tour to Bangkok, Thailand, to present “Urban
Poor and their Network-Building around Housing“ at Thammasat
University
2010
DAAD grant for lecture tour to Muscat, Oman, to present “Participatory
planning for sustainability – the role of enumerations” at GUtech
symposium “Towards sustainable urbanisation patterns in Oman”, 8.
November 2010
2010
DAAD scholarship for 6-months lectureship at School of Architecture
and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South
Africa
2009
DAAD grant for lecture tour to Johannesburg, South Africa, to present
final outcomes of PhD research to South African Cities Conference,
University of the Witwatersrand
2008
Shortlisted for the Irmgard Coninx Research Grant (WZB Berlin) in the
course of an international essay competition on “Urban Planet:
Collective Identities, Governance and Empowerment in Megacities”
DFG grant for lecture tour to Johannesburg, South Africa, to discuss first
outcomes of PhD research to Cities Seminar at University of the
Witwatersrand
2008
2006
DAAD fellowship for 6-month field research in South Africa with regards
to PhD study on civil society organisations involved in housing
processes
2004
Grant by Konrad Adenauer Foundation for a lecture tour to
Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa, to present the outcomes of
the seminar “Uluntu Plaza – public spaces in Cape Town townships”
2001
Grant by Konkreter Friedensdienst (CDG) for a 3-months feasibility
study to transfer and implement the Aachen Agenda 21 project “21
Households” to Cape Town, South Africa
2000
ASA-programme scholarship for a 3-months internship at the Local
Agenda 21 office in Cape Town, South Africa
1997/98
Erasmus /Sokrates scholarship for studying Architecture and Urban
Design at Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy
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Further skills and training
Languages
Very good English, good Italian, beginner skills in Spanish and French
Management
Project development and management, time management, moderation,
Capacity WORKS (Sustainability management of GIZ), research
networks, fundraising
Didactics
Seminars and lectures for English-speaking audience
Moderation of workshops
Problem-based learning
Planning simulations
Online tools for teaching
Berlin, 03 June 2013
Astrid Ley
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Selected Publications
Dr. Astrid Ley
Monograph
2010
Housing as Governance. Interfaces between Local Government and
Civil Society Organisations in Cape Town, South Africa, Ph.D.
dissertation, Münster/Berlin.
Also online available:
(2009): Housing as Governance. Interfaces between Local Government
and Civil Society Organisations in Cape Town, South Africa, Ph.D.
dissertation, online publication
(http://opus.kobv.de/tuberlin/frontdoor.php?source_opus=2238)
Chapters in peer reviewed journals
2011
(together with Steinbrink, M. and Haferburg, C.): Festivalisierung und
Stadterneuerung im globalen Süden, in: Jahrbuch Stadterneurung 2011
Festivalisierung und Stadterneuerung. Arbeitskreis Stadterneuerung an
deutschsprachigen Hochschulen, Berlin, p.213-230.
2011
(together with Steinbrink, M. and Haferburg, C.): Festivalisation and
Urban Renewal in the Global South. Socio-spatial consequences of the
2010 FIFA World Cup, in: South African Geographical Journal, 93:1, p.
15-28.
2006
(together with Herrle, Peter; Jachnow, Alexander) The Metropolises of
the South: Laboratory for Innovations? Towards better urban
management with new alliances, Development and Peace Foundation,
Policy Paper 25, May 2006.
Peer reviewed book chapters
forthcoming
CBOs and NGOs engaging housing and human settlements as
governance , in: Haferburg, C. and Huchzermeyer, M. (eds.): Urban
Governance in Postapartheid Cities: Modes of Engagement in South
Africa’s Metropolis.
2012
(together with Herrle, P. and Fokdal, J.): New Urban Players in Africa
and Asia. The Role of Grassroots Organizations, in: Töpfer, K. and
Mieg, H. (eds.) Institutional and social innovation for sustainable urban
development. Routledge, p. 146-161.
2012
Juggling with Formality and Informality in Housing: Some Lessons from
the New South Africa, Berking, S./McFarlane, C./ Waibel, M. (eds.):
Urban Informalities: Reflections on the Formal and Informal. Ashgate:
Farnham and Burlington, p. 13-28.
2010
Friede den Stadien, Krieg den Hütten? Strategische
Stadtinszenierungen versus soziale Wohnungsbaupolitik in Südafrika,
in: Haferburg, C./ Steinbrink, M.: Mega-Event und Stadtentwicklung im
globalen Süden, Frankfurt am Main, p.208-229.
2010
(together with Teschner, K., Haferburg, C., Steinbrink, M.): Mega-Events
und Stadtentwicklung unter den Bedingungen starker sozialer
Ungleichheit, in: Haferburg, C./ Steinbrink, M. (eds.): Mega-Event und
Stadtentwicklung im globalen Süden, Frankfurt am Main, p. 243-254.
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2008
Bürgerbeteiligung für eine Nachhaltige (Stadt-) Entwicklung. Das 21Haushalte-Projekt in Deutschland und Südafrika, in: Studentische
Initiative für Nachhaltige Entwicklung am Institut für
Sozialwissenschaften Humboldt Universität zu Berlin: Einstieg in
Nachhaltige Entwicklung, Peter Lang Verlag, Berlin, p. 249-258.
Non-peer reviewed publications
2012
(together with Steinbrink, M. and Haferburg, C.): Globalisierung der
Festivalisierung. Stadträumliche Folgen eines weltweiten Trends am
Beispiel der FIFA-WM 2010. In: Schafenrot, N. (ed): Geographien der
Globalisierung, Mainzer Kontaktstudium Geographie, Vol. 13, Mainz, p.
29-38.
2010
“If you want to play the game, play the game.” Housing as Governance in
Cape Town, South Africa, in: TRIALOG No. 102/103, p. 58-63.
2006
People’s Places Call for Collective Activity. Some lessons from public
space upgrading in Cape Town, South Africa, TRIALOG No. 90, p.14-19.
Edited books and journals
2010
(together with Teschner, K., Duyar-Kienast, U. and Kienast, G.):
Perspectives on Urban South Africa, TRIALOG No.104.
2009
(together with Zehner, C.): Improving Governance in Secondary Cities in
Bangladesh, TU Berlin/ GTZ, Berlin, 2009.
2009
(together with Golda-Pongratz, K.): Borders and Migration, TRIALOG
No. 101.
2009
(together with Teschner, K.): Forced Evictions, TRIALOG No.98.
2006
(together with Teschner, Klaus; Jachnow, A.): Urban Coalitions,
TRIALOG No. 90.
2003
(together with Weitz, L.) (eds.): Praxis Bürgerbeteiligung. Ein
Methodenhandbuch. Arbeitshilfen für Selbsthilfe- und Bürgerinitiativen
No. 30, Bonn.
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Conference and Panel Contributions
Dr. Astrid Ley
2013
Member of panel discussion, 2nd Foreign Trade Day
(Außenwirtschaftstag Architektur, Planen und Bauen “Urbane
Herausforderungen”), Workshop III on city and quality of life (“Stadt und
Lebensqualität), Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Auswärtiges Amt), Berlin, 19.
February 2013.
‘Cities as Incubators for Transformation – the Role of Governance”, GIZ
Fachtage „Transformation – Veränderungsprozesse als Herausforderung
für Good Governance im 21. Jahrhundert Department Governance and
Human Rights, Workshop II.2 “Urban Transitions – Learning from
Transforming Cities”, Berlin, 09. April 2013.
‘Urban Poor and their Network-Building around Housing’, Faculty of
Architecture, Thammasat University, Bangkok, 09. January 2013.
2011
‘Nachhaltige Siedlungsentwicklung im Oman’, presentation during the
long night of sciences/ Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, TU Berlin,
28.May 2011.
2010
‘Housing as Governance’, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Santiago,
Chile, 10.December 2010
‘Participatory Planning for Sustainability.The Role of Enumerations’,
GUTECH Symposium „Towards Sustainable Urbanisation Patterns“,
Muscat, 06.November 2010
‘Abandon the Dichotomy! The Meaning of Juggling with Informality and
Formality in Urban Development’, School Talk Lecture, University oft he
Witwatersrand, 19. April 2010.
Member of panel discussion “Mega-Events & Urban Legacy”, GoetheInstitute, Johannesburg, 20. May 2010
(together with Christoph Haferburg) ‘Event Driven Urban Development:
Planning for the 2010 Football World Cup’, Cities Seminar Series,
University of the Witwatersrand, 8. June 2010.
2009
‘Towards oscillating structures and informal interfaces in urban
governance’, South African Cities Conference, Johannesburg, 24.-25.
June 2009.
‘Juggling with Formality and Informality in Housing. Towards Informal
Governance’, contribution to the workshop on “Urban Development in a
Globalising World. Overcoming the Formal-Informal Divide” organised by
the Irmgard Coninx Stiftung and Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für
Sozialforschung (WZB), 12-13 June 2009.
‘If you want to play the game, play the game. Housing as Governance in
Cape Town, South Africa’, TRIALOG spring conference on “Redefining
the urban”, Berlin, 01. May 2009
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2008
‘Breaking New Ground? Wohnungsbaupolitik in South Africa’,
Ringvorlesung “Stadt und Globalisierung”, Hamburg, 3. December 2008.
Member of expert discussion on improving bindingness and effectiveness
of governance („Governance – Wie lässt sich Verbindlichkeit und
Wirksamkeit von Nachhaltigkeitsstrategien verbessern?“), German
Council for Sustainable Development (Rat für Nachhaltige Entwicklung),
Berlin, 9. April 2008
‘Moving Targets as a Coping Strategy: Re-thinking emergent patterns and
relations of organized urban poor groups“ at the 8th Berlin Roundtables on
Transnationality on “Urban Planet: Collective Identities, Governance and
Empowerment in Megacities”, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für
Sozialforschung (WZB), June 2008.
‘Moving Targets: Dynamics of Urban Poor – Local Government
Relationships in Cape Town’, Cities Seminar, University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 01. April 2008.
2007
‘Kick-off or Kick-out? Megaevents and urban development – the case of
the FIFA Soccer World Cup in South Africa’, TRIALOG Symposium, BTU
Cottbus, November 2007.
2005
‘Participation in Local Agenda 21 projects in Germany and South Africa’,
Initiative für Nachhaltige Entwicklung, Humboldt Universität, Berlin, May
2005.
2004
‘Upgrading Public Spaces in Nyanga, Cape Town’, presentations at
German-South African cultural weeks within event on “Urban 21Stadtentwicklung im 21. Jahrhundert” at Museum Africa in Johannesburg
on 25. October and at workshop on “Greener Governance Western Cape”
for local authorities, Centre for Environmental Management (CEM) and
Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Cape Town, 27. October 2004.
2001
‘Strategien für eine zukunftsfähige Quartiersentwicklung in Südafrikas
Townships – das Beispiel Khayelitsha’, TRIALOG annual conference, TU
Braunschweig, 27. October 2001
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