Urbanism | Rosa Thoneick

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…

Dissertation published

Digital Innovation Urbanism

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…

Facilitating a Digital Urban Twin Knowledge Community

Digital Innovation Facilitation Urbanism

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…

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

Facilitation Urbanism

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…

PHD Scholarship by Heinrich Böll Stiftung

Digital Innovation Urbanism

Funded 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 …

Podcast Production for kntxtr

Digital Innovation Storytelling Urbanism

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…

FairCare Verkehr – Mapping the mobilities of unpaid Care Workers

Digital Innovation Facilitation Urbanism

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 …

Digitalization in rural areas

Digital Innovation Urbanism

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 …

Interviews and talks on Feminist Mobilities

Digital Innovation Urbanism

Participation in panels of Die Grüne Hamburg and Böll Stiftung Hamburg on Feminist Mobilities. Several interviews on the topic with Deutsche Bauzeitschrift, …

Papers published on Co-Creating Urban Technologies

Digital Innovation Urbanism

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). …

Our DIPAS platform goes open source

Digital Innovation Facilitation Urbanism

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

Digital Innovation Urbanism

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 …

Portrait in kntxtr

Urbanism

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 …

Portrait in Tagesspiegel Background Digitalisierung & KI

Digital Innovation Urbanism

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…

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

Digital Innovation Urbanism

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.…

CityScienceSummit

Digital Innovation Urbanism

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. …

Lectures & Presentations

Digital Innovation Urbanism

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…

Research Associate at CityScienceLab

Digital Innovation Urbanism

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…

Urban Innovation with JES

Urbanism

Communication and Documentation with JES Julia Erdmann Socialtecture. Urban Research and Design, Social Architecture and Co-Creation. …

Urban Design Master Thesis

Urbanism

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. …

Research Stay in Chongqing

Urbanism

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…