My dissertation on digital technologies, data driven tools and collaboration in cities has been published! Download the open access document here. This research investigates the transformative potential of co-creation and participatory methodologies in the development of urban technologies, with a particular focus on the role of open data. Through comprehensi…
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As a moderator for the new format strg+c[ut], I facilitate knowledge transfer within the German Digital Urban Twins Community. Each yearly quarter, experts come together to discuss learnings and challenges in building their digital urban twins. More informat…
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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…
How to make creative interim use of an empty downtown department store? Read more
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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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…
Facilitating political multi stakeholder workshops Read moreFunded by a scholarship of Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, I am pursuing my phd project “Co-creating the Digital City”. Several papers have been published, and one is currently under review. You can read and follow my updates on ResearchGate. If you have questions regarding the …
PHD Scholarship by Heinrich Böll Stiftung Read moreThe Creative Future Academy supports solo entrepreneurs in the arts and cultural sector with digitizing their businesses through extensive mentorships. More on the program here. …
Mentor at Creative Future Academy Read more
Towards the end of 2022, I started collaborating with the critical architecture magazine kntxtr, whom I knew since their start, and who have featured me in a portrait in 2020. Their new project is th…
Podcast Production for kntxtr Read more
In 2023, the Special Olympics World Games will take place in Berlin. It is the third largest sport event worldwide. Together with partners from THE INTERNET SHOP, we won the public tender to develop the event webs…
Project Management for SPECIAL OLYMPICS WORLD GAMES 2023 Online Shop Read more
THE INTERNET SHOP is a creative studio pushing the boundaries of e-commerce and digital culture with their meme-worthy products and artist collaborations. For their website, I create content and consult the team in their agile project management. …
Editor and Project Coordinator at THE INTERNET SHOP Read more
Urban infrastructures are oftenimes unsuitable to the needs of care workers, such as people caring for children or elderly people, because their needs are oftentimes overlooked in planning processes. As …
FairCare Verkehr – Mapping the mobilities of unpaid Care Workers Read moreAs a coach for Digitalization & Innovation, I was part of the participatory design process for the development of a regional strategy in East Belgium. The process was designed and implemented by HJP Planer who trusted me to accompany their process. More on the …
Digitalization in rural areas Read more
Participation in panels of Die Grüne Hamburg and Böll Stiftung Hamburg on Feminist Mobilities. Several interviews on the topic with Deutsche Bauzeitschrift, …
Interviews and talks on Feminist Mobilities Read more
Within my phd project, I published several papers on Co-Creating Urban Technologies. Follow me on ResearchGate if you want to receive updates on my academic writings. Thoneick, R. (2023). …
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And we celebrated the launch with a conference. I moderated the online event for our Digital Participation System community. A video recording of the panel discussion is available on dipas.org. …
Our DIPAS platform goes open source Read more
A panel of four discussed on digital innovations that were sparked during the Corona pandemia during the MACH AG Innovatives Management 2020 conference. Which transformations, innovations and new ways of collaboration have been established, and which ones will last? More information on the conference on the MACH AG website, and a …
Digital Innovations in the Post-Corona City Read moreA feature on my work was published by the architecture and urbanism website kntxtr. I talked about the background to my urban research, my thesis about migration policies in Brussels and female leadership. Two years later, we are …
Portrait in kntxtr Read more
Freelance consulting on co-creative strategies and sustainable digitalization for PR agency Faktor3 AG. Workshop design and moderation, facilitation and consulting for clients such as CarSoftware (Volkswagen), Porsche Digital, Next conference, Microsoft, Trilux. …
Facilitation and Organisational Development at Faktor3 Communication Agency Read more
(…) 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…
Article on bias in automated systems for DIE ZEIT Read more
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…
Portrait in Tagesspiegel Background Digitalisierung & KI Read more
Mentor at the Next Media Tech Incubator. More about the program here. …
Mentor at the Next Media Incubator Read more
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.…
Panel discussion: Networked City at Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft Read more
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. …
CityScienceSummit Read moreBetween 2020 and 2021, I completed a one-year certificate course at the Facilitation Academy Berlin. Facilitation is the professional accompaniment of groups in transformation processes. The facilitator enables teams to jointly identify and use potentials, find solutions for seemingly unsolvable challenges in companies or groups of all ki…
Facilitation Certificate Read more
Within the European H2020 MICADO project I was involved with designing and facilitating a variety of co-creative workshops with interdisciplinary teams and external stakeholder groups. The goal of the research and design project was to develop a digital solution to facilitate migration management in European cities. We co-created these solutions toge…
Co-Creation Workshops for Tech Development Read more
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…
Lectures & Presentations Read more
From 2018 until 2021, I was part of the CityScienceLab, a research collaboration with MIT Media Lab. My research with the CSL focussed on Digital City Science, specifically participatory and co-creative practices in the development of urban tech. I quit my position in 2021 to pursue a phd in the field, but am still connected with the t…
Research Associate at CityScienceLab Read more
Communication and Documentation with JES Julia Erdmann Socialtecture. Urban Research and Design, Social Architecture and Co-Creation. …
Urban Innovation with JES Read more
Research and Design Proposal on Migration Policies in Brussels. Graduation from HafenCity University, Urban Design programme, with distinction (1.0). The thesis is available online. …
Urban Design Master Thesis Read more
We produced our own magazine – and it was shelved in newspaper stands next to Dummy! Still hard to believe. Our ALLE – Naives Gesellschaftsmagazin lived for one edition in 2018. …
Editorial Consulting for ALLE magazine Read more
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…
Research Stay in Chongqing Read more
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…
Documentary filming at DER SPIEGEL Read more
Together with my partner Agata Szymanska-Medina, we produced two videos for Deichtorhallen Freundeskreis des Hauses der Photographie. The videos were part of their visual campaign and have since been used for PR purposes. …
Visual Campaign for Deichtorhallen Read more