Zum Navigationspfad Unterseiten von „Arbeitsbereiche“ Zur Navigation Zum Schnellzugriff Zum Fuß der Seite mit weiteren Services
Zum Inhalt
Logo: Institut für Sprache, Literatur und Kultur
Fakultät Kulturwissenschaften
© Aliona Kardash​/​TU Dortmund

Katharina Wood

In her dissertation “Conserving Whose World? Green Building Standards in the U.S. and Germany,” she will dissect transatlantic scripts used to build a greener future as brought forth through visionary approaches towards the creations of sustainable cities. The project aims to analyze the underlying cultural scripts and visions of a ‘green’ future through transatlantic comparisons of green building projects.

  • Urban Studies
  • Cultural Studies
  • Narrative and Space

Dissertation

  • "Conserving Whose World? Green Building Standards in the U.S. and Germany"

Journal Articles:

  • Wood, Katharina. “Tiny Living in Dortmund an Experiment in Sustainable Living and Sufficiency” Conference “Cities in a Changing World: Questions of Culture Climate and Design” ArchitectureMediaPoliticsSociety Proceedings (AMPS) New York vol. 24.2 (2021).

  • Wood, Katharina. “People, Planet, Profit: LEEDing the Way to Sustainability? The Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta GA as a Case Study” PhD Forum, Ruhr-University Alliance, 03 February 2023.

  • Wood, Katharina. “Solving More than one Crisis through Going Tiny?” Guest Lecture in “American Houses – American Homes” Jun.-Prof. Dr Heike Steinhoff, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 11 January 2023.

  • Wood, Katharina. “Becoming Green: Resilient and Green Building as Risk Mitigation in Atlanta, Georgia.” Conference “Natural Catastrophes in the United States – Making Sense of Risks and Vulnerability” Heidelberg Center for American Studies HCA, Universität Heidelberg, 16 July 2022.

  • Wood, Katharina. “Resilience, Equity, and Ecology: Narrating the Future through the Kendeda Living Building.” PhD Forum Ruhr-University Alliance, 05 February 2022.

  • Wood, Katharina. “Scripting the Tiny House in the Degrowth City," Forschungskolloquium Raumplanung TU Dortmund Vortragsreihe mit dem Oberthema "Die Zukunft des (urbanen) Wohnens", Technical University Dortmund, 11 January 2022.

  • Wood, Katharina. “Tracing Sustainability through the Triple Bottom Line.” PhD Forum, Ruhr-University Alliance, 13 Feb 2021.

  • Wood, Katharina. “Tiny Living in Dortmund an Experiment in Sustainable Living and Sufficiency” Conference “Cities in a Changing World: Questions of Culture Climate and Design” ArchitectureMediaPoliticsSociety (AMPS) New York, 18 June 2021.

  • Wood, Katharina. “Scripting the Tiny House: Gentrification and the Degrowth City" im Rahmen der Vorlesungsreihe “Hipsters and Gentrifiers: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Urban Culture" Ruhr-Universität Bochum und Universität Duisburg-Essen, November 2021.

  • Prof. Dr. Barbara Buchenau, Juliane Borosch, Johannes Maria Krickl, Katharina Wood. “Skripte für das transatlantische Industrieerbe.“ Digitale Fachkonferenz Zukunftsnarrative für Metropolregionen. 2. KoMet-Tag Ruhr University Alliance, 14 December 2020.

  • ALUS – Association for Literary Urban Studies
Zum Seitenanfang