Constanze von Wrangel is conducting research on the evolution of a bottom-up process at a former industrial site as part of the CONSIDER project. She is examining both the opportunities and challenges that have arisen over the past decades, as well as the conflicting developments, using the WUK in Vienna as a case study.

About the researcher: Constanze von Wrangel studied geography and political science at the University of Münster and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in geography. Her final thesis dealt with the plannability of creative milieus in urban neighborhoods using the example of the Dortmund U and the surrounding districts. She then moved to the University of Bremen and graduated with an M.A. in Urban and Regional Development at the Institute of Geography. Her research interests during this time were cluster and innovation policy, European regional policy and municipal economic development to promote structurally weak neighborhoods and regions. She was a student assistant at the Centre for Regional and Innovation Economics at the University of Bremen. Her methodological interest focused very early on qualitative social research. For both, her bachelor and master theses she worked with narrative interviews and was involved in a comprehensive qualitative research project on the significance of cultural events in disadvantaged urban districts. As a PhD student at the Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr University in Bochum, she is currently engaged in a dissertation on the significance of industrial heritage for regional identity formation in the Ruhr region. On the one hand, her research is based on the official narratives about the Ruhr that are communicated at the sites of industrial heritage. On the other hand, she deals with the narratives “from below”, as they appear in oral interviews with residents from the Ruhr region. The different narratives can be interdependent, complementary, or even contradictory.