Larissa Benk

Larissa Benk studied Urban Planning and Architecture at Erfurt University of Applied Sciences from 2019 to 2023 and began her Master's degree in Spatial Planning and Development at the TU Wien in October 2023. She gained professional experience during several student assistantships in Erfurt and an internship in Munich. Her main areas of interest are the adaptation and further development of historical and theoretical approaches and their integration into current urban development as well as debates on building culture. In addition, she deals with questions of social transformation possibilities against a socio-ecological background. She has been working at the Research Unit of Local Planning since 2024 and supports the team in teaching and administration.

Larissa is part of the production team for the regularly published ZUKUNFT STADT podcast, which addresses current issues, discourses, trends and topics in architecture and spatial planning.