Anne Kockelkorn
Anne Kockelkorn is Assistant Professor for the History and Theory of Housing and Urbanism at Ghent University. Her research focuses on the political economy of housing and its impact on social relations and social space. She conceptualizes housing as urban infrastructure, utilizing architectural knowledge to explore how this infrastructure affects people’s livelihoods, labor routines, and gender constructs, and how narratives of empowerment intersect with strategies of discipline and value extraction. She has worked on the histories of cooperative and social housing in Europe since the mid-19th century, on strategies of peripheralisation through mass housing urbanisation since the 1950s, and on the impact of financialisation on urban development since the 1990s.
Prior to her position in Ghent, Anne worked as a research assistant at ETH Zurich (2009–2015), taught as guest professor at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia (2018), co-directed the post-graduate program for history and theory of architecture and the city (MAS ETH GTA, 2019–2020) and held a position as assistant professor at TU Delft thanks to a Delft Technology Fellowship (2021–2022). Between 2006 and 2012, she worked as an architecture critic for the periodicals Bauwelt, Archplus, Baunetz, TEC21 and archithese. Between 2013–2015, she co-edited the theory journal Candide, with Susanne Schindler, Axel Sowa and Andres Lepik. She studied Architecture at École d’architecture de Paris-Belleville and Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee and graduated in 2003