Lena Unger

Academic Experience

Since 12/2019

Research associate at the Department of European Planning Cultures, Faculty of Spatial Planning of the Technical University of Dortmund

Since 10/2018

Project management at tetraeder.com gmbh, online participation, geo-information, software development, Dortmund

2015 – 2018

Research assistant at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy gGmbh and project management assistance for the “WISIONS of Sustainability” Initiative

Education

07/2018

Summer School “Urban Analytics” at IST Lisbon, Centre for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research (IN+)

2015 – 2018

TU Dortmund University, MSc Raumplanung

2011 – 2015

TU Dortmund University, BSc Spatial Planning

Books and Edited Volumes

Lee, D., Feiertag, P., & Unger, L. (2024).  Co-production, co-creation or co-design of public space? A systematic review. Cities 154, 105372. DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2024.105372

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Lee, D., Feiertag, P., & Unger, L. (Eds.) (2024). Co-production in the urban setting: Fostering definitional and conceptual clarity through comparative research. Urban Planning 9. DOI: 10.17645/up.i313

Lee, D., Feiertag, P., & Unger, L. (2024). Defining co-production: A review of the planning literature. Journal of Planning Literature 39(2), 227-240. DOI: 10.1177/08854122231219919

Article in Edited Volumes

Unger, L., & Lee, D. (2023). Participation during and after the pandemic: Lessons learned from an urban revitalisation project in Dortmund, Germany. In E. Lissandrello, J. Sorensen, K. Olesen, & R.N. Steffansen (Eds.), The 'new normal' in planning, governance and participation (pp. 151-164). The Urban Book Series. Cham: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-32664-6_12

Others

Zimmermann, K., Lee, D., Quentin, P., Wächter, L., Unger, L., & Feiertag, P. (2020) COVID-19 and its impact on city-regions in Germany. General, IGLUS on COVID

2022 (soon)
Lee, D., Unger, L., Beteiligung während und nach der Pandemie: Lessons learned from an Urban Revitalization Project in Dortmund, Deutschland.
Vortrag auf dem AESOP-Jahreskongress 2022. Tartu, Estland.

Unger, L., Conceptualizing Digital/Technological and Data Sovereignty Within the European Context. Vortrag auf der Veranstaltung Beyond Smart Cities Today -
Macht, Gerechtigkeit und Widerstand 2022. Malmö, Schweden

Practicing Sovereignty Konferenz, Weizenbaum Institut, Berlin (participation)

2022
Unger, L., Conceptualizing Digital/Technological and Data Sovereignty Within the European Context. Vortrag auf der 6. Internationalen Konferenz
'Urban e-Planning'. Online.

Lee, D., Chang, R., Feiertag, P., Unger, L., Symposium über Ko-Produktion (organisation and moderation)

2021 (participation)
Workshop über intelligente Städte und digitale Souveränität, Universität Linköping, Schweden. Online
(Re)Thinking Smart, (Re)Building Scale in a Digital Urban Age. Learning from Small Cities Project. London. Online
STS - CH Multiple Matters - von vernachlässigten Dingen zur Kunst, Zerbrechlichkeit wahrzunehmen, Lausanne, Schweiz. Online .

2018 (participation)
Smart Cities and Planning: New Urban Agenda, New Urban Analytics am UCL, Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, London, UK

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