Lorenza Manfredi joined DIMAS from february 2025 to september 2026 as part of Prof. Anna Steigemann’s team, working as a researcher for Fairville, a Horizon Europe project that brings together eight labs testing urban co-production in diverse locations across Europe and Africa.
If you have any questions about her courses, certificates or grades, please contact the DIMAS Secretarial Team.
CV
Academic Positions
| 2025 - 2062 | Researcher and lecturer at DIMAS, Department for Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Area Studies, University of Regensburg |
| since 2025 | Lecturer at CUD, Chair for urban design and urbanization, TU Berlin |
| 2023 - 2024 | Researcher and lecturer at IAS Institut für Architektur und Städtebau, Hochschule Biberach. Drittmittel Forschungsprojekt BWIM (Project Leader) |
Academic Education
| 2022 | PhD Project, TU University Berlin (Habitat Unit) and IUAV University of Venice (Curriculum in Urbanism), Joint Project. Title: Disruptions. Spreeraum Ost, Berlin 1990 - 2020. |
| STIBET Degree-Completion Scholarship | |
| DAAD Scolarship | |
| Master Graduation in Architecture, Politecnico di Milano | |
| Bachelor Graduation in Environmental Architecture, Politecnico di Milano |
Research
- Fairville www.fairville-eu.org
- Interests:
Interscalarity: urban production as an overarching result of everyday practices and global flows.
Interdisciplinarity: understanding urban and landscape planning also through sociological and economic theories, as well as artistic positions and practical experimentations. - Topics: Public space, plurality and multipublics, bodies and spaces, spatial practices, appropriations and temporary uses, autonomous and self-managed spaces, forms of participation and inclusion, neoliberal processes, radicality, urban as well as marginal contemporary territories.
Publications
(Selection)
“Disruptions. Self-managed Spaces under Reconfiguration in Berlin’s Spreeraum Ost in the Years 1990 - 2020.” In: Radical Plurality and Design - special issue for the Journal of Urbanism, foreseen 2025. double peer reviewed.
“Autonomous spaces in Berlin. Cynical resistance tactics in the neoliberal city.” In: Boano, Bianchetti (eds.), Lifelines. Politics, Ethics, and the Affective Economy of Inhabiting. Jovis 2022.
With Schiefer and Veronese, “Through Berlin: urban natures.” In: Boschiero, Folkerts, Latini, eds., Natur Park Schöneberger Südgelände and Berlin’s Urban Nature – International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens 2022. Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche with Antiga, 2022.
With Kvitkova, Limongi and Marfella, “Back to the microscale.” In: Scopacasa, ed., The social city. Urban development and housing projects in Berlin and Naples in the post-war era - a comparison. Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin 2021.
With Kvitkova, “Reconfiguring the Neoliberal City: Three Stories of Urban Pioneers in Berlin.” In: Vassallo & others, eds., Spatial Tensions in urban design. Understanding Contemporary Urban Phenomena. Springer 2021.
„Azioni immediate.“ In: Llevat Soy and Martin, eds., Mass Production makes a better World! Che fine ha fatto l’utopia fordista nella Torino contemporanea? Lettera Ventidue 2020.
With Martin, “Produzione addomesticata.” In: Bianchetti, ed., Territorio e Produzione. Quodlibet Studio 2019.
With Colombo, “Where context meets content(s).” In: Mameli & others, eds., Urban Appropriation Strategies. Exploring Space-making Practices in Contemporary European Cityscapes. Transcript Verlag 2018.
Teaching
Sommersemester 2026
Winter Semester 2025/26
Summer Semester 2025
A brochure about this excursion in Berlin and workshop insights can be found at the following links:
Broschüre “Urbane Koproduktion am Beispiel Berlin” (external link, opens in a new window)
Workshop Insights “Urbane Koproduktion am Beispiel Berlin” (external link, opens in a new window)
Teaching (selection)
- "Terra Mare. Urban Design Studio” at CUD / TU Berlin SoSe 2025 – with Jeanne Lacour and Veljko Marković
- “Walklab. Ein Ansatz für ein interskalares und interdisziplinäres Entwerfen, unterwegs.” at IAS / Hochschule Biberach WiSe 2024
- “Die Emanzipation des Stadtmobiliars” at IAS / Hochschule Biberach SoSe 2024
- “We are fucked, and now? Aquatic construction sites”, WAVES / IUAV Venice SoSe 2023 – with raumlabor and latitude
- “Mapping workshop” at the Design Studio Spaces of Solidarity. Practices and Infrastructures for a solidary Berlin / TU Berlin WiSe 2022 - with Mari Paz Agundez
Projects and networking
- Co-founder, project manager and curator of Officina Neukölln project space 2016 - 2022
- Architect at 100Landschaftsarchitektur - Thilo Folkerts, Berlin 2014 - 2021
- PhD shortlisted for the Ferraro Award 2023
- Schinkel competition recognition price with the project “Stadt Ouverture” - with Grünewald and Schiefer 2021