Council member
Jörg Schröder is full professor of urbanism and Chair for Territorial Design and Urban Planning at Leibniz University Hannover LUH and Dean for Research of the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape. He is a member of the German Academy of Urbanism and Planning DASL. He teaches at LUH in the BSc in Architecture and MSc in Architecture and Urban Design, with a track in Urban Planning, and is directing the doctoral college in Architecture of Territories and a double degree doctoral programme with Mackenzie University São Paulo. Currently, he is a member of a working group on research evaluation from Architecture Units in the TU9 German Technical Universities. He graduated in 1998 with Technische Universität München and has been assistant professor at TUM, as a guest lecturer and for teaching and research projects he cooperates with several universities in Europe and Latin America.
As an architect and urban planner his focus is on urbanism and architecture for sustainable transition and territorial innovation, with a focus on design research, emerging creative habitats, and circular dynamics. In a territorial perspective, his interest is in an extended metropolitan dimension as well as in a broad range of peripheries. Current research projects address innovative dynamics of space-society interactions for innovation processes towards sustainability and climate-neutrality, social and economic innovation, and cultural change.
He is coordinator of CiD Circular Design Innovation Alliance, funded 2023–26 by the European Union, and has been coordinator of the research projects Creative Food Cycles (EU Creative Europe Programme), Cosmopolitan Habitat (DAAD German Academic Exchange Service), Creative Heritage (Volkswagen Foundation), and contributed to several national and European research projects, e. g. Alpine Building Culture (EU Alpine Space Programme) and Regiobranding (BMBF German Ministry of Education and Research. He is regularly directing and organising international conferences, workshops and summer schools. Publications include the books Circular Design (2023, with Jovis, Berlin), Cosmopolitan Habitat (2021), Creative Food Cycles (2020), Territories (2017).