"W2-Professorship of Design with a focus on urban and regional strategies"

Your responsibilities

You will teach in the Bachelor's and Master's programs at the Detmold School of Design with a focus on urban planning, as well as in the cooperative Master's program Urban development NRW.

You develop innovative design and planning strategies at the intersection of city and region across various scales. You understand urban and regional development as a cross-disciplinary task and work at the interfaces of architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture.

Your focus lies on shaping spatial development frameworks, transformation strategies, and planning concepts with an emphasis on sustainable spatial development, socio-spatial justice, functional diversity, and climate resilience.

In doing so, you combine analytical and design-based methods and tools, and convey the legal foundations of land-use planning. You explore new, collaborative forms of citizen science in real-world laboratories, planning processes, or regional networks.

You have a strong desire to be on campus and present for your students. Up to 25% of your teaching can be provided as digital teaching, if required, to enable cross-location lectures.

You are prepared to conduct courses in German as well as in English.

You will promote interdisciplinary study formats, e.g., through practical student projects.

You will conduct research in urban and regional development with the aim of developing innovative strategies and design approaches for sustainable, just, and resilient spaces.

In this context, you bring expertise in one or more of the following areas: integrative and transformative spatial concepts, development processes in the Global South, socio-ecological land policy, and urban-rural conflicts.

You have strong interest in innovative communication formats which encourage the dialog between science and society.

You will shape the expansion of collaborations with practice partners and you contribute to the further development of the department.

You will contribute to the university’s internal committee work in a collegial manner and participate actively in expanding cooperation relationships with domestic and foreign universities.

Your Profile

You have the ability to represent the subject area in research and teaching at the required level of detail and depth, and the ability to teach in English.

In addition, you fulfil the requirements of § 36 Hochschulgesetz NRW and have: a completed university degree in urban planning, spatial planning, architecture or a comparable field; a successfully completed doctorate degree, achievements equivalent to a doctorate or a special aptitude for artistic work and additional artistic achievements; relevant professional experience (at least five years, at least three of which gained outside the university sector) in addressing urban planning tasks.

Furthermore, you should also have an open-minded personality, proven teaching and research experience, relevant publications, and expertise in acquiring third-party funding, and the willingness to actively participate in the development of interdisciplinary and intercultural exchange and practice formats.

We Offer

a lively, interdisciplinary and future-oriented environment for your ideas in teaching, research and transfer; supportive balance between your career and your personal life; personalised onboarding and support for new appointees at the start of their university career; ongoing comprehensive further training opportunities – professional, didactic and personal; a strong network of external partners in the down-to-earth and economically strong region of East Westphalia-Lippe; a high quality of life thanks to a wide range of cultural, sporting and recreational activities in the region of Teutoburg Forest.

OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts represents the principle of quality through diversity and wishes to increase the proportion of women among its scientific staff. In case of equal qualification, severely handicapped applicants will be given priority.