Post-Doc Profile: Dr. Friederike Landau

I grew up in a small town at Germany's former border between East and West. After studying a variety of subjects ranging from public administration to political philosophy, I moved to Berlin and worked as a strategy consultant. During this job, I got to know Berlin as a fascinating city that is not only filled with cultural offers, but also people who get organized to maintain cultural infrastructures. Out of these experiences, I sculpted my Ph.D. project (2015-2017), in which I examined the emergence and political mobilization of an action platform of transdisciplinary Berlin-based artists.  I consider myself an interdisciplinary urban scholar interested in the connections between the arts and politics in cities.