ANN RADAR Startup

With the startup ANN RADAR, our team of four has won the pitch for the Gateway49 Accelerator. Over the course of 9 months, we work closely with mentors and investors on our business model, technological solution and value proposition. Our goal is to develop a machine learning system that uses LLMs (large language models) to build agents that analyze GIS data as well as large text documents to simplify the creation of neighbourhood profiles. This enables partners to take customised measures for

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How to make creative interim use of an empty downtown department store?

We discussed this question in Germany’s largest creative interim use. In the former Karstadt Sport building next to Hamburg’s main train station, artists and other creatives make use of 8000sqm on 6 floors. For 1,5 years, the “Jupiter” project examined architectural and procedural requirements to make an interim use of this size work. During the Architektursommer, I was able to discuss the project and its capability for sustainable transformation of our city centers toge

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Arctic Documentary

Polarstern has arrived in the Arctic ice. Credits: Ufa Documentary Earning a Grierson Award, “Expedition Arktis – Arctic Drift” is one of the most successful science documentations. It followed the German icebreaker Polarstern to the northern-most expedition of mankind, MOSAIC. On the year-long field campaign, the world’s most renown scientists spent one year in the arctic ice, capturing a vanishing ecosystem. In preparation for the succeeding documentation, “ArcWatch&#

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Facilitating political multi stakeholder workshops

For a project aiming at finding suitable locations for wind power plants, I collaborated with CityScienceLab and Senatskanzlei der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg. As a product owner and facilitator I oversaw the development of a GIS based digital location finder tool. With a diverse group of stakeholders from politics and administration, we collaborated over the course of four months. Being the product owner, I monitored the development of the tool and oversaw communication with the tech team an

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Article on bias in automated systems for DIE ZEIT

(…) Bei dem Algorithmus von Cognitec wird die Datenbank seit 1995 kontinuierlich mit Bildern gefüllt, mittlerweile sind es Millionen. »Wir haben inzwischen einen guten Querschnitt. Am Anfang, als wir losgelegt haben, war das nicht der Fall«, sagt Pampus. Eine geringe Fehlerrate bleibe, die im Übrigen kleiner sei als bei der Verarbeitung durch den Menschen. Im internationalen Vergleich schneide sein Algorithmus hervorragend ab, sagt Pampus. Es könne immer mal wieder zu Abweichungen kom

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Portrait in Tagesspiegel Background Digitalisierung & KI

Wie finden wir Lösungen für die Digitalisierung der öffentlichen Verwaltung? Agil, legitim und elegant sollen sie sein, diesen Anspruch stellt der Kongress Digitaler Staat, der heute in Berlin stattfindet. Rosa Thoneick erhofft sich von der Veranstaltung einen konstruktiven Austausch, vor allem über die Entwicklung einer neuen Fehlerkultur, die im Widerspruch mit den Verwaltungsstrukturen stehe. Sie diskutiert mit vier anderen Expertinnen und Experten in einem Panel zum Thema „Agile Org

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Panel discussion: Networked City at Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft

What are the social models and city concepts shaping urban tech? Visions, Concepts and Narratives for the Networked City discusses the dynamic dialogue between city visions and urban concepts from the past and todays’ Smart City narratives. The panel discussion was organized by Hybrid Space Lab and hosted by Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft in Berlin.

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CityScienceSummit

Each year, the MIT Media Lab’s CityScience Network comes together for a two-day conference to network and exchange ideas in digital city science. In 2019, the Hamburg CityScienceLab hosted the event. The first day saw keynote speeches by Lord Norman Foster, Dr. Maja Göpel and others in Elbphilharmonie. The second day invited researchers and practitioners to a hands-on conference in the HafenCity University.

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Lectures & Presentations

I presented my research on Digital City Science in lectures, key notes and paper presentations at international Fora, Conferences and Symposia. Those include 2022 Regional Studies Association Winter Conference – London 2022 Mind the Progress: Merging Realities – Hamburg 2022 Hans Böckler Stiftung: Die Post-Corona Stadt Summer School – Schliersee (online) 2022 Die Grüne Hamburg: Aufbruch Kongress – Hamburg 2021 solutions: Kongress für digitale Transformation – Hambur

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Research Stay in Chongqing

As part of the Learning Cities workshops conducted by Mercator Foundation, Wuppertal Institure and Chora Lab Berlin, I spent a month in 2016 in China, three weeks in Chongqing, and one in Beijing. In international student project groups, we conducted research on urban historical neighborhoods in Chongqing and developed an urban design proposal for a sustainable and social waterfront in the Shan’Cheng’Xiang neighborhood of Chongqing. This was the result from a three-week resear

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Documentary filming at DER SPIEGEL

Between 2013-2017 I was part of the multimedia desk of DER SPIEGEL. We experimented with multimedia storytelling to accompany the print magazine for screens. My responsibilities were the supervision and production of visual stories – video and photo essays and short documentaries that would be featured in DER SPIEGEL Weitwinkel. I wrote concepts, conducted the filming and editing of video documentaries and oversaw post-production, both alone and in larger teams. Part of my assignment w

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