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Participation | Experimental and emancipatory planning approaches | Self-organisation | Urban governance

Anna Aigner studied spatial and regional planning at the Vienna University of Technology (2014 - 2023 Dipl. Ing.) and environmental management and planning at the University of Manchester (2017). Her previous practical and academic work has focused on participatory urban planning and development. Particular emphasis has been placed on researching open, experimental and emancipatory planning approaches, as well as issues of self-organisation. On this topic, she worked with Urban Equipe and Kollektiv Raumstation on the handbook "Organisiert Euch! Zusammen die Stadt verändern, opens an external URL in a new window", published in 2020. 

Through her work at Urbanista, Hamburg (2016) and Superwien Urbanism (2020-2021), she has gained practical experience in participatory urban planning, placemaking and activating civil society engagement. From 2021 to 2023 she worked as a project assistant on research projects focusing on socially innovative climate and sustainability experiments at the Research Department for Urban and Regional Research and the Research Department for Sociology at the Institute for Spatial Planning at the Vienna University of Technology.

Since February 2023, Anna Aigner is working as a University Assistant (PraeDoc) at the Department of Sociology, researching the transformative potential of urban experiments and their relation to planning practice.