Doctoral Candidate
Olivia Kummel
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Curriculum Vitae
Since December 2014, Olivia Kummel has been enrolled as a doctoral student at the Habitat Unit. Her doctoral dissertation is supervised jointly by the department of architecture at the Mongolian University of Science and Technology. She initially studied landscape architecture at the University of Applied Science in Erfurt as well as urban planning at the University of Kassel.
Olivia Kummel's work and research focuses on urban development and social urban planning with an emphasis on actors' constellation, communication and empowerment processes in underdeveloped settlements on one side and development cooperation and its support programmes on the other side.
Olivia Kummel taught in Ulaanbaatar at MUST as part of the bachelor and masters degrees of architecture and modernised the curricula for the urban planning course. Prior to her work as a senior lecturer at MUST, she worked as an advisor for urban and landscape planning for two municipalities in Nepal with an emphasis on land-use planning, heritage conservation, citizen participation and community development to promote grassroots democracy. In Berlin, she gained broad experience in neighborhood management and as a freelance urban planner, elaborated urban analysis and surveys, development frameworks and urban development concepts.
Since 2014
Doctoral candidate, TU Berlin
(Working Title) Emerging and Influence of Local Governances within so-called 'Informal settlements': Comparative Investigation in underdeveloped neighbourhoods in Cairo, Kathmandu and Ulaanbaatar. (Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Philipp Misselwitz, Prof. PhD. Gonchigbat Ishjamts).
1997 – 2006
Diploma II in Urban Planning, Urban development Planning (Dipl.-Ing.), University Kassel. (Thesis) Cycles of revaluation and devaluation of regions – challenges for the regional planning. (Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Detlev Ipsen; Prof. Dr. Iris Reuther).
2001
Diploma I in Urban Planning (Dipl.-Ing.) University Kassel
(Thesis) Replanning concept and urban design draft for the redevelopment area Teutoburger Platz in Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg. (Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Christian Kopetzki, Dipl.-Ing. Hans-Peter Rohler).
1994 – 1997
Diploma in Landscape Architecture, Open Space Planning (Dipl.-Ing.), Erfurt University of Applied Science.
2012-2014
Senior lecturer
Department of Architecture at MUST
Since 2014
Doctoral Thesis
(Working Title) Emerging and Influence of Local Governances within so-called „Informal settlements": Comparative Investigation in underdeveloped neighbourhoods in Cairo, Kathmandu and Ulaanbaatar. (Supervisors: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Philipp Misselwitz, Prof. PhD. Gonchigbat Ishjamts).
2004
Spatial pioneers in Brandenburg
Research department 3, Prof. Dr. Ulf Matthiesen, Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning.
WS 2014
Seminar: Urban Design Studio III
Bachelor degree, Department of Architecture, MUST
SS 2014
Seminar: Urban Design Studio II
Bachelor degree, Department of Architecture, MUST
Lecture: Urban Planning II
Bachelor degree, Department of Architecture, MUST
WS 2013
Seminar: Urban Design Studio V
Masters degree, Department of Architecture, MUST
Seminar: Urban Design Studio I
Bachelor degree, Department of Architecture, MUST
Lecture: Urban Composition
Bachelor degree, Department of Architecture, MUST
Lecture: Landscape Architecture
Bachelor degree, Department of Architecture, MUST
SS 2013
Seminar: Urban Design Studio V
Masters degree, Department of Architecture, MUST
Lecture: Urban Planning II
Bachelor degree, Department of Architecture, MUST
Lecture: Landscape Architecture
Bachelor degree, Department of Architecture, MUST
WS 2012
Seminar: Architectural Design Studio III (Urban Design)
Bachelor degree, Department of Architecture, MUST
Lecture: Research Methodology II
Masters degree, Department of Architecture, MUST
Refereed articles
with Oelun Altangerel (2013) Citizen Participation in Urban Planning Processes. MUST, Proceedings, (1), International Forum on Strategic Technology (IFOST).
Other articles and publications
with S.M.N. Uddin et al. (2014) Exposure to WASH-borne hazards: A scoping study on peri-urban Ger areas. Mongolia. Habitat International, (44).
(2014) with Renato D'Alencon, Leona Lynen, Philipp Misselwitz, eds. NOMAD CITY-Ger settlements in Ulaanbaatar. Weltstadt, (8).
(2008) Dwelling in the old city of Kirtipur. Zoll+ (12).
Conference Papers
(2013) Citizen's Participation in Urban Planning Processes, 8th International Forum on Strategic Technology (IFOST), MUST, Ulaanbaatar.
(2013) Neighbourhood Development in Ger Areas in Ulaanbaatar: The Case of Amgalanbaatar, 17th conference of UIFA (United International Female Architects), Ulaanbaatar and: "WaSH up!" Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Forum, Ulaanbaatar, Action Contre la Faim.
(2015) Ulaanbaatar Urban Development, Studio Urban Design Project, Habitat Unit, TU Berlin.
(2014) Actors in Urban Planning Processes, United Young Mongolian Architects, Ulaanbaatar.
(2013) Contemporary Urban Elements, United Mongolian Architects, Ulaanbaatar.
(2013) Right to the City! Social movements in Cities, 40th anniversary of the Department of Architecture, MUST, Ulaanbaatar.
(2012) The State of Urban Planning in Europe and Germany: History, Trends and Future, Municipality Ulaanbaatar.
(2012) Contemporary Urban Planning, United Mongolian Architects, Ulaanbaatar.
2005
(Diploma Thesis) Cycles of revaluation and devaluation of regions – challenges for the regional planning, University Kassel
Awarded for best theoretic - conceptional Diploma Thesis
Association for urban, regional and country planning (SRL)
Member since 2005