Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Ulrike Sturm
Head of Institute for Sociocultural Community Development

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Ulrike Sturm has been a lecturer and researcher at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (LUASA) since 2010. From 2013–2018 she was head of the Interdisciplinary Research Focus “Cooperation in Building and Planning”. In 2018 she became head of the Institute of Sociocultural Development at the Department of Social Work and started the International Thematic Cluster “Spatial Development & Social Cohesion” at LUASA. Since 2020 Ulrike Sturm is head of LUASA´s newly founded “Smart Region Lab”. After a Master’s degree in Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the Free University of Berlin in 1992, Ulrike Sturm received her diploma as an architect at the Technical University of Berlin in 1998. She received her PhD in the Theory and History of Urbanism in 2011. For over ten years she gained practical experience as a freelance architect working for various offices of architecture and urbanism as well as in her own practice. From 2000 on Ulrike Sturm worked as a teaching assistant in urbanism at the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus. From 2008–2010 she was Assistant Professor at Université de Quebec à Montreal and Leibniz Universität Hannover. Her research focuses on questions of urban development, social interaction and participatory processes, including digital tools.

Zibell, Barbara; Damyanovic, Doris & Sturm, Ulrike (2019). Gendered Approaches to Spatial Development in Europe: Perspectives, Similarities, Differences. London: Routledge (Taylor & Francis).
Sturm, Ulrike; Bürgin, Matthias & Schubert, Axel (2019). Stadtklang - Wege zu einer hörenswerten Stadt. 2 Klangraumgestaltung von Aussenräumen. Zürich: VDF Hochschulverlag.
Sturm, Ulrike & Lienhard, Melanie (Hrsg.). (2018). Kooperation Bau und Raum: Neue interdisziplinäre Wege in Forschung und Praxis. Zürich: VDF Hochschulverlag.
Sturm, Ulrike; Bürgin, Matthias & Schubert, Axel (2019). Stadtklang - Wege zu einer hörenswerten Stadt. 2 Klangraumgestaltung von Aussenräumen. Zürich: VDF Hochschulverlag.

Zibell, Barbara; Damyanovic, Doris & Sturm, Ulrike (2019). Gendered Approaches to Spatial Development in Europe: Perspectives, Similarities, Differences. London: Routledge (Taylor & Francis).

Sturm, Ulrike & Lienhard, Melanie (Hrsg.). (2018). Kooperation Bau und Raum: Neue interdisziplinäre Wege in Forschung und Praxis. Zürich: VDF Hochschulverlag.

Sturm, Ulrike; Schumacher, Jörg; Schwehr, Peter; Rey, Emmanuel; Dind, Aleksis; Ehrbar, Doris; Lütolf, Tanja; Schmickl, Raphaela; Brombacher, Simon; Jung, Jasmin; Hömke, Maik & Peter, Colette (2017). Das modulare Bausystem Living Shell: Qualitätsvolle Verdichtung durch Ausbau und Sanierung von Dächern und Fassaden. Zürich: VDF Hochschulverlag.

Geier, Sonja; Herres, Uli Matthias & Sturm, Ulrike (Hrsg.). (2017). Holzbausanierung zwischen Ortsbildschutz und Energieeffizienz: Ein roter Faden für Bauherrschaften. Zürich: Lignum, Holzwirtschaft Schweiz.

Geier, Sonja; Herres, Uli Matthias & Sturm, Ulrike (2017). Réhabilitation des bâtiments en bois - protection du site et efficacité énergétique: Un fil rouge pour maîtres d’ouvrages. Zürich: Lignum, Holzwirtschaft Schweiz.

Sturm, Ulrike & Bürgin, Matthias (2016). Stadtklang - Wege zu einer hörenswerten Stadt. Zürich: VDF Hochschulverlag.
Barsuglia, Myriam; Sturm, Ulrike & Schumacher, Jörg (2014). Qualitätsvolle Innenentwicklung von Städten und Gemeinden – durch Dialog und Kooperation: Argumentarium und Wegweiser. Zürich: vdf-Verlag.
Sturm, Ulrike (2013). Städtebau als kulturelle Praxis: Reformkonzepte in Deutschland 1910-1930. Tübingen: Ernst Wasmuth Verlag.

Member International Working Group Gender and Spatial Development (2014-18)
Member of LAG Baden-Württemberg since 2019
Lead International Working Group Gender- and Climate-just Cities and Urban Regions

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