Katrin Hagen
Dipl.-Ing.in Dr.in
Senior Scientist
+43 1 58801 26116
Office hours by arrangement / Mon, Tue + Thu
Katrin Hagen graduated in Landscape Architecture from TU Hannover. From 1998 to 2004, she worked as a freelance collaborator in various landscape architecture offices in Vienna. Her projects covered diverse aspects, ranging from object planning and landscape planning concepts to garden conservation work. In the years 2004 to 2006, she engaged in freelance activities in Andalusia, Spain.
Since 2006, Katrin Hagen has been employed as a university assistant, involved in teaching and research activities at the Research Unit Landscape at TU Wien. In 2011, she completed her Ph.D. with a dissertation titled "Freiraum im Freiraum. Mikroklimatische Ansätze für die städtische Landschaftsarchitektur" (Open Space within Open Space: Microclimatic Approaches for Urban Landscape Architecture). Since 2019, she holds the position of Senior Scientist, with her primary focuses on climate change adaptation, green-blue infrastructure, and implementation processes.
- Current courses
- Research projects
- Publications
- Courage for Change. Tactical Urbanism as an Impulse for the Transformation of Public Spaces (2024)
- Good luck! What comes after coal? (2024)
- Podcast: Über die Hitze in der Stadt (2023)
- How to Make Existing Urban Structures Climate-Resilient? (2021)
- "Green-Blue infrastructure in a densifying city (2021)
- Fostering the implementation of green solutions through a Living Lab approach (2019)
- More green in the city - But how? (2019)
- Las políticas del espacio público icónico - Seestadt Aspern, la orilla urbana de Viena (2015)
- Improving open space design to cope better with urban heat island effects (2014)
- Understanding the whole city as landscape (2014)
- The potential of multiple methods in strengthening the landscape aspects of urban climate research (2012)
- Mit Sinnen und Verstand. Gestaltungsprinzipien maurischer Gärten als Inspiration für eine klima-sensitive Stadtgestaltung (2012)
- Freiraum und Mikroklima - Mikroklimatische Ansätze für die städtische Landschaftsarchitektur (2011)
- Freiraum und Mikroklima - Grundlagen für klimasensitive Planung in der Seestadt Aspern (2010)
- El agua y los bosques de la Alhambra (2010)
- Contribution of landscape design to changing urban climate conditions (2010)
- Urban fabric types and microclimate response - assessment and design improvement