Gabu Heindl is Head of the Department of Building Economy and Project Development “Architecture Cities Economies” at the University of Kassel.

The team of ARCHITECTURE CITIES ECONOMIES has experience within research fields of housing relations and land ownership, feminist and practices of care in architecture, diasporic studies of space relations and curbing climate footprint of construction industry. We are particularly dedicated to the question of supply and demand in housing in so far as it intersects with the issue of vacancy and just climate transition i.e. redistribution of ownership rights. Our team welcomes research collaborations, especially those that intersect different research fields and experiences.

Current research projects:

LEERstand: RELEARN, RETHINK, REDESIGN, REUSE | Innovation in Teaching

Investigative Housing Research – The Productivity of Common Ownership Models

Building Together & Otherwise – Housing strategies of feminist movements

A Room of Her* Own – Gender Wealth Gap and (Home)Ownership

Vacant City? Detection of vacancy and planning tools for its activation

Setting new starting points

KOWOHÄUSER Collective housing, financing and operating models for more socially and environmentally friendly single-family housing developments