Opening of the exhibition, Ecologies of the Machine at Pavillon 333, October 2025
Sustainable Urban Environments
Prof. Anne Rademacher
Welcome to the Chair for Sustainable Urban Environments at TUM.
We understand urban environments as vital landscapes of relations -- they encompass processes, systems, and scales that weave together cities and more-than-city spaces. Our research often de-centers cities in order to better understand the social dynamics that create, reproduce, and foster change within them.
We affirm the plurality of knowledge forms that combine to foster creative and inclusive urban landscapes. Our research works to integrate pluralistic approaches to the natural and social sciences, creating new perspectives on key processes that drive urban social-ecological change.
Our interdisciplinary research group is committed to practices that affirm the centrality of relations across multispecies worlds, ecological vitality, and mutual care for the human and more-than-human world. We aim to learn together in a spirit of cooperation, collegiality, trust, fairness, and accountability.
Our focal research interests include: Urban waterscapes, from the cryosphere to rivers and coastlines; plural ecologies and diverse forms of scientific knowledge; biodiversity and the variety of lifeforms and lifeways; and circulations of energy, food, and waste across urban and agrarian landscapes.
The group constitutes an integral part of TUM’s Public Science Lab.