Laurin Baumgardt
EPFL ENAC IA THEMA
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Formation
2018 – 2025 Rice University
2013 – 2017 Leipzig University
2018 – 2021 Rice University
Prix et distinctions
Critical Urban Anthropology Association
2024
Rice University
2024
US National Science Foundation
2022
Wenner-Gren Foundation
2021
Rice University
2020
Publications représentatives
Occupied Futures: Co-Design, Repair, and the Struggle for Housing in Cape Town
Laurin Baumgardt
Published in City & Society in 2025
Opening the Black Box of Urban Development: Cultural Heritage Activism at the Amazon Megaproject in Cape Town
Steven Robins and Laurin Baumgardt
Published in Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory in 2023
Slow crises – South Africa’s governmental responses to COVID-19 in times of ‘crisis within crisis’
Laurin Baumgardt and Steven Robins
Published in The South African Response to COVID-19. The Early Years, Routledge in 2023
Urban Acupuncture Design Theory: Researching New Development Practices in South Africa
Laurin Baumgardt
Published in Platypus, The Castac Blog in 2021
Broken Promises: Examining Berlin’s Material Histories in an Age of Rubbling
Laurin Baumgardt
Published in Berlin Journal of Critical Theory in 2019
Unfinished Futures: Ethnographic Reflections on Infrastructure and Aspirations in an Informal Settlement in South Africa
Laurin Baumgardt
Published in Moment, Journal of Cultural Studies, in 2017