Ulf Strohmayer

Ulf Strohmayer is the Established Professor in Geography at the University of Galway. He has worked at universities in Germany, France, Sweden, the US and in Wales (UK) prior to settling in the West of Ireland, where he teaches and works on Urban Geography and Planning, Social Theories and Public Engagement.

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The project

Title: Vacant Urbanism: Supplementing Urban Spaces

Keywords: Urban and Social History; Deliberative Democracy; Urban Planning; Cities and Public Art; Jacques Derrida

Selection of publications

‘Reframing development in Ireland: Making the case for an urban lab approach’ (with Pat Collins and Mark Rainey). in: European Planning Studies,2021, 29, 10, 1758-1776

‘Urban renewal and the actuality of absence: the ‘hole’ (‘trou’) of Paris, 1973.’ in A Place More Void, edited by P. Kingsbury and A. Secor, Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 2021, 29–47

‘Assembling a Co-produced urban lab: the case of Nuns’ Island Galway’ (with Pat Collins and Mark Rainey). in: City, Culture and Society, 2022, 30, 100463

‘Beyond the Flâneur. Urban Walking as Peripatetic Phenomenological Pedagogy’. In: Geohumanities, 2023 (available online prior to appearing in print)

‘It’s less the destination and more the getting there: Urban development, emergence and co-creation in Galway, Ireland’ (with Pat Collins and Mark Rainey). In: Town Planning Review, 2023