Isabel Herrle joins SPUR as an external doctoral candidate
Isabel Herrle has been an external doctoral candidate at SPUR since autumn 2024 and is employed in a research project at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, within the Institute for Sociocultural Community Development.
Isabel is particularly interested in forms of cooperative and collective spatial development. As part of the SNF-funded research project "Urban Development: Participation 'from Above' and 'from Below'," she examines the practices and logics of participation, co-creation, and co-production from the perspective of participants in site developments in German-speaking Switzerland. Her research also focuses on the governance, organization, and administration of cooperative urban development processes.
In 2024, Isabel completed her M.Sc. in Urban Design at HafenCity University Hamburg. Previously, she earned a B.A. in Cultural and Spatial Studies from Leuphana University Lüneburg. During her undergraduate studies, she spent a semester abroad at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina.
Alongside her academic career, Isabel has worked on various projects in public and private sector organizations, focusing on (participatory) urban development. Additionally, before starting her studies, she completed a vocational training as an educator and worked in different social institutions for children, youth, and adults.
