Multiple Encapsulations: Gated Communities, Artistic Enclaves and Child-free Spaces (B03)

• Subject Area: Empirical Social Research ; City Planning, Spatial Planning, Transportation and Infrastructure Planning, Landscape Planning
• Term: since 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 290045248

This subproject investigates the spatial figuration of encapsulation. The central research question is how built-spatial and social structures of encapsulation contribute to both managing processes of refiguration and advancing them in the form of social polarization (social inequality, conflicts between different lifestyles). Using the example of child-free spaces, gated communities, artists’ villages as well as cross-sectional and secondary analyses, the project examines what kind of power structures are reproduced in encapsulations and what kind of imaginations they contain.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1265: Re-Figuration of Spaces
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Berlin
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Martina Löw; Professor Dr. Jörg Stollmann