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Participatory redesign of Berezovyi Hai Park in Chernihiv, Ukraine
A collaborative redesign process for Berezovyi Hai Park in Chernihiv.
Urban research · Urban development
Urban gardens are infrastructure.
Toni Karge works at the intersection of open-space planning, urban development and urban agriculture—for a productive, equitable city shaped through collaboration.
Current role
Policy officer for urban gardens and the productive city
Since 2019 at the Berlin Senate Department for Mobility, Transport, Climate Action and the Environment, in the Open Space Planning and Urban Greenery unit.
Previously a research associate at the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning at Technische Universität Berlin.
Education & professional development
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Urban and regional planning studies in Berlin and Oxford, specialising in urban design, urban sociology and urban renewal; graduated as Diplom-Ingenieur.
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Certified programme in “Gender Studies in Engineering” at ZIFG, TU Berlin (2013–2015).
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Certified programme in “Higher Education Teaching” at the HIT Academic Staff Development Centre, University of Erfurt (2015–2017).
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Certified programme in “Research Management”, specialising in project management, at ZEWK, TU Berlin (2016–2019).
Awards
- 2014 Balg-Mächler Research Award from the Ilse Balg Foundation for Urban Research.
- Award for an outstanding thesis from the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning.
- Award for outstanding academic achievement from the VDI Berlin-Brandenburg district association.
- Nominated for the TU Berlin Teaching Award.
Work
Selected projects
Research, teaching and practice around urban agriculture, public space and collaborative urban development.
All projects
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Urban gardening: multiple uses, competition for land and environmental justice in central Wedding
Studio project involving participatory workshops and concept development (2017–2018).
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New urban agriculture
A theoretical framework and stakeholder analysis of the Himmelbeet initiative in Berlin-Wedding. Monograph, 2015.
Engagement
Knowledge is made together.
For many years I have contributed to COLLOC, a transdisciplinary project on the collaborative production of transformation knowledge in self-organised occupations in Rio de Janeiro.
COLLOC at TU BerlinReading
Publications
Writing on urban gardening, placemaking, gender and the transformation of industrial heritage.
All publications