The highly interdisciplinary and international study and research programme enables multi-perspective work that deals with the field of tension between architectural production and social processes. How do built or planned structures shape (public) spaces and social dynamics? How do social processes and discourses materialize in architecture? And how does this affect society? Topics based on a broad understanding of the concept of architecture, which includes not only individual buildings, but also urban complexes and infrastructures.

The joint initiative of Goethe University Frankfurt, the Technical University of Darmstadt, the University of Kassel and the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (Frankfurt am Main) has accepted twelve doctoral students and two postdocs in the first cohort. With a supervisory structure in which architecture and urban planning, art history, sociology, media and history studies, law, political science and human geography perspectives are represented, regular colloquia for intensive exchange and a varied workshop programme, the fellows are supported in their research.

The central aim of “Organizing Architectures” is to allow a broader public to participate in the research discussions, which is why regular public lectures and publications are planned from the research training group.

The Research Training Group is initially funded for 5 years. A second cohort of doctoral students will start in 2026.