Assistant Professor for Urban & Regional Transformations

Transformative Governance | Strategic Planning | Urban Experimentation | Social Innovation | Planning Theory & Planning History

Johannes Suitner works on local sustainability transformations. He studies how ubiquitous transformation objectives (e.g., energy transition) are being negotiated locally and translated into specific spatial and political projects of urban and regional change. He is particularly interested in non-technological and non-market explanations of the success and failure of transformations, specifically political and cultural factors such as dominant framings of the history and future imaginaries of places, established social practices and social innovations, specific planning configurations and planning cultures.

His current research focuses on the transformation of planning, imaginaries of eco-social futures and metropolitan resilience.

Guest Researcher at the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University (2024)
Guest Professor at the Int. Chair of Humanities & Social Sciences at Université Rennes 2, France (2023)
Guest Professor at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Research, University of Graz (2017-2018)
Lecturer at University of Economics, Vienna (from 2016)
Rudolf-Wurzer-Prize for Spatial Planning 2014
 

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