Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin - Publikationen

Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zur Bildungsforschung 2026

Isensee, Fanny;Kapp, Felix;Meyer-Jenßen, Lars;Zunker, Nicky;Mayer, Tanja — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Originating from the former Interdisciplinary Centre for Educational Research (IZBF), the working group 'Entwicklungsperspektiven für Bildungsforschende' is situated at the Professional School of Education (PSE) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The group offers various formats designed primarily, but not uniquely, for early-career researchers. Key activities include an annual conference, peer-to-peer advising between doctoral students and postdocs, a writing week, and various networking opportunities that have gained a following beyond the HU Berlin itself. Participants also have the chance to contribute to this volume. In selecting contributions, we prioritize a wide range of sub-disciplines and interdisciplinary approaches to showcase the full diversity and cross-disciplinary nature of educational research.

Empowering Ghana’s Engineering Future: A Model for Professional Education in Renewable Energy—and beyond

Longmuss, Joerg;Akowuah, Joseph;Gyamfi, Samuel;Wolf, Stefan;Oduro, William — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Across the globe, the transition to renewable energy is redefining how we live, work, and think about development. Yet, one urgent question persists: how do we prepare the next generation of engineers not just to participate in, but to lead this transformation? The answers lie not only in laboratories or power grids, but in the classrooms, workshops, and collaborative spaces where young minds are shaped In Ghana, the ProREG project (Professional Education for Renewable Energy in Ghana) emerged as an ambitious response to this challenge. Anchored in a strategic partnership between the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Kumasi) and the University of Energy and Natural Resources (Sunyani)—working closely with the Technische Universität Berlin and leading companies from both Ghana and Germany—ProREG set out to bridge the persistent gap between academic training and professional practice in the renewable energy sector. Funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and implemented between late 2022 and 2025, the project embraced a bold vision: to co-create and institutionalise a practice-oriented, industry-relevant, and scalable model for engineering education that could help future-proof Ghana’s energy workforce—while offering a model for the wider world. This book is a record of that journey. It tells the story of an innovative collaboration across borders, sectors, and disciplines. It captures the hopes and questions we started with, the methods we tested, the obstacles we encountered, and the impact we achieved. More than a project report, this publication offers insights, frameworks, and inspiration for anyone seeking to modernise engineering education in service of sustainable development.

Global Food Stories. Eating Cultures in Times of Transformation

Brombach, Christine;Müller, Heike;Bartsch, Silke — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Food cultures have rarely been considered for a sustainable transformation of current food systems. How can we start this conversation in an action-oriented way in our diverse contexts? Answers were compiled with alumni from 30 countries in the DAAD-funded SUSTAINABLE FOOD CULTURES project and are presented in this book.
This book is an extension to the SUSTAINABLE FOOD CULTURES project, which explores meanings of sustainable food cultures. The book provides a research basis on sustainable food cultures, a collection of recipes and food stories from the project participants, and reflections on the complexities of food culture and sustainability.

Die bodenlose Stadt

Million, Angela;Molter, Christian;Bentlin, Felix;Calbet Elias, Laura — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Volumes 1–6 of the series have been published by Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin:

https://verlag.tu-berlin.de/en/reihe/schriftenreihe-staedtebau-und-kommunikation-von-planung/

Soil is a key motif for the socio-ecological transformation in order to harmonise climate and environmental concerns with the need for affordable housing and other building blocks of urban development oriented towards the common good. The new remodelling culture that is currently being called for sends out important signals in this direction. Nevertheless, many aspects of current urban development are bottomless. Local authorities can hardly implement a land policy orientated towards the common good, as they sell the land to pay for their meagre financial budgets; valuable existing buildings are left to decay and demolition because new construction promises higher profits; land consumption is far above the target that was declared sustainable more than 20 years ago; living space per capita is increasing because moving to more suitable housing is usually associated with higher housing costs. The scarcity of land is a recurring motif in numerous urban policy discourses.

Architektur Design Kunst. Berliner Utopien der 1950er Jahre

Gleiter, Jörg H.;Győrffy, R. Gyöngyvér — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The anthology explores the modern architecture of the immediate post-war period in Berlin's City West, whose cityscape was significantly influenced by the collaboration between the architects Hans Schoszberger and Paul Schwebes. The architectural and cultural concepts of modernism, which marked a cultural turning point in direct connection with the future euphoria of the post-war period, form hereby the framework for the analyses. The 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in May 2025 provides the topicality of the publication.

Standortbestimmungen

Bausch, Barbara;Weber, Julia — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In what ways can literary texts express a stance in response to current socio-political developments? This volume focuses on contemporary works that explore possibilities for engagement and participation through personal, political, and aesthetic acts of self-positioning. Particular attention is given to formal strategies that, in the face of destabilised or marginalised positions, generate new modes of writing and aesthetic forms.

Paratexte der Theorie

Gamper, Michael;Hottner, Wolfgang — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Theory-historical reflection seems to begin in prefaces and epilogues. The aim is often to introduce one's own or another work into new contexts, to prevent misunderstandings or 'misinterpretations' and to undertake self-historicization. The same applies to other paratexts such as titles, blurbs, dedications and mottos, as well as accompanying and supplementary texts such as interviews, reviews and the like. They, too, are intended to guide reception and develop different effects in new contexts. The peculiarities of such pre- and post-imposed texts have not yet been systematically examined by researchers, but they play a decisive role in understanding the transfer, circulation, global effectiveness and 'connectivity' of theory. This volume examines these paratexts of theory, their general affordances and concrete effects on the circulation of theory on the basis of exemplary questions, constellations, authors, genres and texts, and always asks about the various ways in which theory is transferred and unfolds significance for literature and the humanities.

Blickwinkel KOSMOS – Perspektiven auf Alexander von Humboldts Werk und das Anthropozän

Schneider, Christoph — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Paperback. The hardcover version is available in the HumboldtStore.

In his KOSMOS lectures at the Berlin University in 1828, Alexander von Humboldt described the world holistically and introduced new scientific perspectives. The here presented collection includes selected topics from the KOSMOS lectures at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2019 in the editorial, five academic contributions and a lecture manuscript. The contributions follow the thesis that Humboldt's way of thinking represents a template for science in the Anthropocene.

Messunsicherheiten im Physikunterricht

Priemer, Burkhard;Kok, Karel — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This anthology brings together 27 contributions that address the topic of measurement uncertainties in physics lessons and propose concepts and recommendations for teaching practice, based on physics education research. A wide range of physics topics in secondary education are addressed and digital applications are presented. The book thus aims to provide comprehensive support in teaching how to deal with uncertainties in physics lessons. The contributions are aimed at physics teachers, trainers in all three phases of physics teacher training (university, traineeship and teacher training) as well as physics education researchers.

The digitalization of healthcare for older adults

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Demographic change poses substantial challenges for our healthcare system and its ability to sustain good healthcare for older adults. Digitalization is one answer to this challenge. In this collection, we present different projects and approaches tackling the digitalization of healthcare for older adults based on a workshop conducted in Berlin in July 2023.

Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zur Bildungsforschung 2025

Töpper, Daniel;Isensee, Fanny;Pohle, Lara;Mayer, Tanja — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

As documentation of the Early Career Researchers' Day 2023 of the newly founded working group Development Perspectives for Education Researchers, which is now based at the Professional School of Education (PSE), this anthology makes innovative, tentative and interdisciplinary contributions to educational research by young researchers from Berlin universities accessible to a broader public. In addition, the volume provides contributions on issues and formats that affect early and mid-career researchers as well as interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary topics.

The Role of Theory

Morris, Dave;Mieg, Harald A. — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

According to Aristotle, theory is the highest, rational form of knowledge. But do we need theories at all, given the new capabilities of AI to machine integrate massive amounts of data? The book is based on a two-day symposium co-hosted by the Robert K. Merton Center for Science Studies and the Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsforschung Berlin. The symposium had three thematic strands:

1) Theorizing and its new media, with a discussion of the question: What kind of theorizing do science podcasts enable?

2) Epistemology and the metaphysics of theory, with some comments on the philosophy of science, including the role of theory in university teaching

3) AI and theory, with the final question of theory and the transparency of knowledge organization.

The book begins with a reflection by Andrew Abbott on the role of theory in the social sciences.

The Jahrbücher Wissenschaftsforschung have been published since 1995, all volumes up to and including 2022 can be accessed free of charge via the HU Berlin repository: https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/handle/18452/90

Matters of Urgency – Herausforderungen der Gegenwart in Theater und Wissenschaft

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The multitude of virulent and urgent conflicts of a present experienced as crisis-ridden not only shakes the theatre and the entire art and cultural life, but also affects the future of the discipline of theatre studies. Against this background, an awareness has grown that urgent social challenges must be placed in relation to theatre, dance and performance and examined analytically, theoretically and historically. This volume documents contributions from the 15th Congress of the Gesellschaft für Theaterwissenschaft and offers an overview of the topics currently perceived and discussed as urgent by theatre scholars from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The title of the volume is to be understood in a double sense: 'Matters' as topics and fields of research that are brought to the attention of theatre studies due to their social relevance, but also as an indication of the materiality and mediality of the confrontation with these topics.

Open source hardware development – A handbook for collaborative product creation

Villum, Christian;Dekoninck, Elies;Bonvoisin, Jérémy;Mies, Robert;Jochem, Roland — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Open source hardware (OSH) involves freely sharing designs online, permitting their use through free/open licences and opening up the product development process to external collaboration. OSH development offers enormous potential for restructuring the social organisation of product creation and reforming traditional industrial practice. At first glance, it seems that these values and practices threaten conventional value-creation models. A company may ask how it can make money while working ‘in the open’; a solo entrepreneur may ask what they stand to gain from opening up their products. However, this mode of participation can harbour benefits to both companies and consumers. To this end, this handbook gives highly practical information on what OSH and OSH development is, how to get started, develop a strategic approach, document systematically, identify the right licence and collaborate with online communities and makerspaces. It taps into several dozen case studies to draw rich insights into best practice and dos and don’ts of OSH development. The book addresses a practitioners’ audience of managers, engineers, business owners, makers and researchers who want to know more about the book’s subject which is at the forefront of societal needs and trends.

Biomaterialien, medizinische Implantate, Tissue Engineering

Glasmacher, Birgit;Urban, Gerald A.;Kraft, Marc;Müller, Marc;Bergmann, Michael — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Printed version available at:

http://www.eMedTech.de

Biomedical Engineering – Biomaterials, Medical Implants, Tissue Engineering: Volume 3 of the Biomedical Engineering textbook series initially provides a basic understanding of the fundamental term biocompatibility and adresses all essential classes of materials with tissue contact. It then proceeds to examine implants and implantable systems for various fields of application in the human body. While these approaches typically aim only to restore the function of the damaged tissue or organ, the methods discussed in the final section on tissue engineering focus on creating fully functional tissue replacements.

Die blau-grüne Stadt

Million, Angela;Schmidt, Anke;Wagner, Carina;Bentlin, Felix — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Volumes 1-6 published by Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin
https://verlag.tu-berlin.de/en/reihe/schriftenreihe-staedtebau-und-kommunikation-von-planung/

Water is essential for our ecosystems and habitats. Against the backdrop of climate change, blue-green infrastructures (BGI) are becoming increasingly important in urbanised areas. The publication on the blue-green city presents the results of the winter school under the same heading, in which students, researchers and designers from various planning faculties in Germany spent a year exploring this fundamental topic. The publication uses current designs and projects from research and practice to show how nature-based elements can be integrated into urban planning in order to make cities more liveable, climate-resilient and sustainable. Innovative solutions for water-sensitive urban development, climate adaptation strategies and risk management, biodiversity and health care are presented.

Operate with Fungi

Meyer, Vera;Schäffner, Wolfgang — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Here’s to a new one! Following “Mind the Fungi” (2020) and “Engage with Fungi” (2022), “Operate with Fungi” is the final book in a trilogy dedicated to the world of fungi and their possibilities. In all three projects, various scientific, artistic and civil society actors from the Berlin area worked together in different constellations to learn from the life of Funga, to be inspired by the possibilities of fungal biotechnology and, building on this, to jointly develop new fungal-based biomaterials that can form the basis of a circular and bio-based economy and architecture. While the first two books focused more on the why and how of transdisciplinary collaboration, this book reports on how working with fungi can bridge divides and build strong connections. Between highly specialised scientific and artistic disciplines, and between closed university laboratories and open social spaces. “Operate with Fungi” invites us to reflect on the world of Funga, which is so closely intertwined with the world of Flora and Fauna. It offers options as to how we can create a sustainable future for our species that respects planetary boundaries and offers constructive solutions to climate change.

50 Jahre Institut für Stadt- und Regionalplanung

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

To mark the 50th anniversary of the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning (ISR) at the Technical University of Berlin, this publication takes a close look at the history, present and future of the institute. The book documents milestones in the development of the ISR, introduces the key people and departments and reflects on the challenges and successes of the past five decades. The publication offers insights into the ISR's research and teaching and shows how the institute contributes to the sustainable development of urban and regional areas by integrating perspectives from different disciplines. Interviews with department heads and contributions from staff and students complete the complex picture of the ISR.

Einrichten in der Normalität – Wie Kinder und Jugendliche in Großsiedlungen wohnen

Akyildiz, Aylin;Stollmann, Jörg;Fahl, Karoline;Wellner, Kristin;Klotz, Steffen — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Please note that the online version is the second, revised edition of the title. This does not apply to the print edition.

This book, titled Dwelling in Normality, explores the complex realities of large housing estates of the post-war era, challenging prevailing negative perceptions while addressing their renewed relevance in the current housing crisis. It focuses on the often overlooked experiences of children and young people in these estates, highlighting the disconnect between their actual dwelling practices and how they are considered in housing planning and design. The anthology brings together various text and image formats by children and young people, academics from the fields of architecture, urban research, economics, education, and social sciences, as well as former residents of the housing estate, an illustrator, and a photographer. Together, they explore the spatial and structural conditions, as well as the social (im)possibilities of dwelling as a practice.
By focusing on Neu-Hohenschönhausen as a case study and incorporating external perspectives, the book offers a comprehensive examination of the housing conditions in large housing estates. Combining academic research, personal accounts, and visual representations, the anthology aims to contextualize project-specific findings within wider discussions of large housing estates and research involving young people. This approach facilitates dialogue across disciplines, places, times, scales, origins, and generations, revealing the complexity of housing and dwelling experiences. The unique format makes the content relevant and engaging for both academic and non-academic readers with a personal or professional interest in housing issues.

Impact Problems in Physics, Technology, and Medicine: Fundamentals and Applications

Willert, Emanuel — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The book is devoted to the mechanics of the collision of two macroscopic bodies. First, the fundamentals of contact mechanics (elasticity, adhesion, etc.) are presented and then applied to the collision problem. With the method of dimensionality reduction, a tool has been available for a few years which allows the very efficient analytical and numerical treatment of contact-impact problems. The book concludes with application cases from various fields.