Mentor at Creative Future Academy
The Creative Future Academy supports solo entrepreneurs in the arts and cultural sector with digitizing their businesses through extensive mentorships. More on the program here.
Podcast Production for kntxtr
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 the kntxtr podcast, and I support the project with editing and post-production. One episode has been published so far, more to … Podcast Production for kntxtr
Project Management for SPECIAL OLYMPICS WORLD GAMES 2023 Online Shop
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 webshop and manage their fulfilment and warehousing. As a project manager, I helped organize workflows and communication.
Editor and Project Coordinator at THE INTERNET SHOP
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.
FairCare Verkehr – Mapping the mobilities of unpaid Care Workers
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 part of the Connected Urban Twins project, currently the largest smart city research project in Germany, we wanted to make visible to challenges and barriers … FairCare Verkehr – Mapping the mobilities of unpaid Care Workers
Digitalization in rural areas
As 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 project here. A podcast on our workshop can be found here.
Interviews and talks on Feminist Mobilities
Participation in panels of Die Grüne Hamburg and Böll Stiftung Hamburg on Feminist Mobilities. Several interviews on the topic with Deutsche Bauzeitschrift, DER SPIEGEL, taz.
Papers published on Co-Creating Urban Technologies
Within my phd project, I published several papers on Co-Creating Urban Technologies. Thoneick, R.; Degkwitz, T.; Lieven, C. (2021). Advancing Participatory Democracy through Collaborative Data Platforms. In: Schwegmann, R.; Ziemer, G.; Noennig, J. (ed). Digital City Science. Researching New Technologies in Urban Environments. Berlin: Jovis. Thoneick, R.; Malchow, M.; Breckner; I.; Noennig, J. (2021). Complex … Papers published on Co-Creating Urban Technologies
Our DIPAS platform goes open source
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.
Digital Innovations in the Post-Corona City
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 video interview.
Portrait in kntxtr
A 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 working together.
Facilitation and Organisational Development at Faktor3 Communication Agency
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.
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 … Article on bias in automated systems for DIE ZEIT
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 … Portrait in Tagesspiegel Background Digitalisierung & KI
Mentor at the Next Media Incubator
Mentor at the Next Media Tech Incubator. More about the program here.
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 … Panel discussion: Networked City at Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft
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 … CityScienceSummit
Facilitation Certificate
Between 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 kinds, to plan action that is supported by … Facilitation Certificate
Co-Creation Workshops for Tech Development
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 together with stakeholder groups such … Co-Creation Workshops for Tech Development
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
Visual Storytelling 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 … Visual Storytelling at DER SPIEGEL
Research Associate at CityScienceLab
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 … Research Associate at CityScienceLab
Urban Innovation with JES
Communication and Documentation with JES Julia Erdmann Socialtecture. Urban Research and Design, Social Architecture and Co-Creation.
Urban Design Master Thesis
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.
Editorial Consulting for ALLE magazine
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.
Visual Campaign for Deichtorhallen
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.
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 … Research Stay in Chongqing
