Biography

• Andi BRUCK is the managing director of K LAB – a laboratory for communication at the Department of Urban- & Regional Planning at TU Berlin. His research interests range from utopias, scenarios, and visions of urban tomorrows, to methods and tools of urban analysis and design, as well as incremental urbanism and co-design strategies. Before establishing KLAB, he held the Professorship for Urban Planning at the Dessau Institute of Architecture (DIA) in 2018/19 and worked as a Senior Researcher (Post-Doc) at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS) – Dept. Regeneration of Cities (2017), and was a researcher and lecturer at TU-Berlin’s Chair of Urban Design & Urban Development (Prof. Million) between 2011 and 2016, when he finished his doctoral dissertation URBAN TOMORROWS 2030 - Visions and Counter-Visions for Future Cities. After initially being trained in geography, anthropology, and urban planning (Diplom Univ. Bonn), he finished two master’s degrees in architecture from TU-Darmstadt and UPC ETSA Barcelona, where he pursued a postgraduate training with renowned Spanish architect Carlos Ferrater (OAB). Currently, he is the Coordinator of the Dual-Degree Master’s Program in Urban Design between Tongji CAUP and TU-Berlin.