Intro

Gesa's bio: Gesa Ziemer (Prof. Dr. phil.) is a Professor of Digital Urban Cultures at the HafenCity University Hamburg. She heads the CityScienceLab, a cooperation with the MIT Media Lab (Cambridge, MA, USA), which researches the future of cities (with a special focus on digitalization). She is also the academic director of UNITAC, a United Nations Innovation and Technology Lab (UN-Habitat, OICT) that conducts global research on the use of technology in informal settlements. She was a fellow of the Humboldt Foundation (Feodor-Lynen Program) at the Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA, USA. Her research foci are the digital city, new forms of collaboration, and urban spaces. She is a member of the Accreditation Committee of the Scientific Council of Germany and holds a Guest Lectureship at Lucerne School of Art and Design in Switzerland.

Link to the City Science Lab: https://www.hcu-hamburg.de/en/research/csl

More about the UNITAC project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65BpmUCsRb4&feature=youtu.be

Gesa's homepage: https://www.gesa-ziemer.com/english/home/

Gesa on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gesa-ziemer/