Dr.
Hilke Marit Berger

Hilke Marit Berger is an urban researcher working at the interface of cultural studies and urban planning on the connection between technical issues and social as well as cultural developments. Her research interests include practices of participation, co-creation and collective urban design in the field of artistic practice and politics. In her current transdisciplinary research, she investigates the collaborative potential of mixed reality applications (especially VR and AR) for participation processes in urban planning. She serves as a juror in various contexts and advisory boards, developed, coordinated and worked for several artistic and scientific projects, for festivals, theaters, universities and authorities in Leipzig, Berlin and Hamburg. She lectures and publishes internationally. Currently she is a researcher at the CityScienceLab of the HafenCity University Hamburg (a cooperation with the Media Lab of MIT Cambridge / USA) and is responsible for the research program.