Partners
The Project Team
- Ralf Brand, Principal Investigator.
- Jon Coaffee, Co-Investigator.
Contact
Dr. Ralf Brand,
The University of Manchester,
Humanities Bridgeford Street Building,
Oxford Road,
Manchester, M13 9PL,
United Kingdom.
Email: ralf.brand@manchester.ac.uk.
Telephone: +44 (0) 161 2750317.
Telefax: +44 (0)161 2756893.
Advisory Council
- Prof. Simon Guy (Sociologist, University of Manchester), director of the Manchester Architecture Research Centre.
- Dr. Wendy Pullan (Architecture, University of Cambridge), PI of Conflict in Cities – Architecture and Urban Order in Divided Jerusalem.
- Prof. Rachid Chamoun (Urban Design, Lebanese American University), Director of the Lebanese Urban Planning Institute.
- Thomas Bürk (Ethnologist, Humboldt University Berlin), Expert on right-wing extremism in large residential blocks.
- Prof. Frank Gaffikin (Spatial Planning), Reader at Queen's University Belfast, expertise in spatio-political implications of contestation.
- Prof. Maarten Hajer (Public Policy, University of Amsterdam), Co-initiator of the Amsterdam Centrum for Conflict Studies.
Academic Partners
- Lebanese American University: Rachid Chamoun, Urban Planning Institute (Urban Studies).
- Queen's University Belfast: Frank Gaffikin; Ken Sterrett; Brendan Murtagh
- Humboldt University Berlin: Thomas Bürk (Ethnology); Dirk Gebhardt (Geography); Andrej Holm (Urban Sociology); Volker Eick (Politics, Free University); Katharina Fleischmann (Planning, Brandenburg Technical University).
- University of Amsterdam: Sally Wyatt (Communication Studies); Maarten Hajer (Centrum for Conflict Studies); Jan Simons (Media & Culture Studies).
- Berlin Section of the International Network for Urban Research and Action.
- Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning near Berlin: Timothy Moss.
Non-academic partners
- Louise McNeill: Conflict Transformation Project, Belfast City Council.
- Pi de Bruijn: De Architekten Cie, Amsterdam.
- Esther Charlesworth: Architects Without Frontiers.
- Renee Crawford, Jean Brown, John Hoey: Stewartstown Road Regeneration Project, Belfast.
- Andrea Börner, Wolfgang Obermair: Exhibition curators.
- Hermann Gabler: Curator in Amsterdam and lecturer in Fine Arts.