Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Civil Engineering · Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
Research Interests
urban planning, (social) learning, innovation critique, governance, mobility, futuring, values, water governance, degrowth economics, third cultures, TCKs, ATCKs, imaginaries
Biography
Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Post-Doctoral Fellow at HVL (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences) and Collaborating Member at CITTA (University of Porto). She holds a PhD from Wageningen University. Her dissertation is entitled 'Planning with Roots and Wings. Critical and constructive reflections on social learning in planning', (2021). Kim is passionate about social and environmental justice and sustainability, and seeks to address the related challenges through critical and constructive research, interdisciplinary and multi-cultural perspectives, creativity, and public engagement. She has published widely on the subjects of participatory governance, streets as public spaces of mobility, social learning in co-creative planning, critical innovation studies, degrowth and post-growth. She is looking to engage more with Arts and Humanities. She runs the MobileWorlds project and the Planetary Planning Podcast.
Education
Research Master Urban Studies 2013-2015 University of Amsterdam. Master-level study of urban issues, with a focus on transportation and land use planning, governance and sociology, culminating in the thesis on the acceptability of cycling in Mexico City and London. Courses in Spanish Philology and Latin American Studies 2012-2013 Lateinamerika-Institut (LAI) Berlin and the Freie Universität Berlin. Bachelor Human Geography and Planning 2009-2012 University of Amsterdam. Study of spatial and geographical influences on humans and vice-versa, and urban and regional planning. Focus on urban issue...
Recent Scopus Publications
- Questioning streets. On plural origins, plural uses, and plural futures
- Interweaving environment, heritage, and society through Cultures of Water. An introduction
- Exploring the Potentials of Rural Tactical Action for Co-Creating Heritage: The Case of the “Minante” Project
- Shrinking Cities for Economic Growth? Insights From the Housing Sector
- On the 'impertinence of impermanence' and three other critiques: Reflections on the relationship between experimentation and lasting – or significant? – change
Links
- ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1166-0616
- Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dyQs2BEAAAAJ
- Scopus https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=56418710700
- Personal Weblink https://www.hvl.no/en/employee/?user=Kim.Carlotta.Von.Schoenfeld