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
Enseignement et PhD
Cours
Architectural anthropology
AR-405
Ce cours propose une introduction aux principaux débats anthropologiques et aux approches méthodologiques portant sur les questions et thématiques architecturales, les savoirs et les pratiques de conception.