2026 Presentation „Caring for the Existing“, mit S. Knierbein, ECLAS Conference

2026 Presentation „Wider der Natur? Zwischen Vision und Konstruktion“ Campus Conference Osnabrück, University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück

2025 Guest Crit „Shifting Grounds“, hosted by T. Folkers, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

2025 Panel Discussion „Urban Future Talk. Grüne Infrastruktur – zwischen Parks, Grünanlagen und Gstettn“, UIV Urban Innovation Vienna

2024 Guest Crit „Westbahnpark: climate-friendly urban [re]pair“, hosted by E. Schwab, TU Graz

2023 Guest Crit „Rathausplatz Rust“, hosted by L. Lička, BOKU Vienna

2023 Lecture, "Urban cohabitation strategies. Visions and approaches" with Thomas E. Hauck, Circular Strategies Symposium 2023, University of Applied Arts Vienna

2023 Lecture, "Natürlich klimagerecht und vielfältig - Warum Partizipation und soziale Teilhabe", with Andreas Rockinger, Bavarian chamber of architects

2023 Talk and panel discussion, "Cultural Laboratory Seoul", Opening of exhibition "San Su In Mul: Mountain Water Human Building", Seoul Hall of Architecture and Urbanims, funded by Swiss Embassy and Seoul Metropolitan Government

2022 Panel discussion, "How many rights may (must) nature have?", Klimaseismograph für Natur und Gesellschaft, Symposion Dürnstein

2021 Lecture "Greening Seoul", EPFL Lausanne

2021 Lecture "Mediating Landscape", TU Munich

2021 Guest Crit "Oberbuerg", Nuremberg Institute of Technology

2020 Talk "The urban park caught between recreational space and colonial instrument of power", with Damaris Baumann, 2. Schweizer Landschaftskongress

2020 Lecture "Cultural Laboratory Seoul: The park as a global remedy?", TU Munich, APHIN e.V.

2018 Lecture "Zum Einfluss kultureller Codes. Kulturlabor Seoul", University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf

2018 Lecture "Participation", University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf

2017 Talk "Cultural Laboratory Seoul", gta Werkstattgespraeche, Colloquium for Architecture, Art- and Art History, ETH Zurich

...and others...

2026 Moderation „Bürgerdialog zum Quartier Heltauer Straße“, for adribo GbR, Client: City of Munich, BGSM

2026 Moderation „Erweiterung Steinbruch Gundelsheim“, für adribo GbR, Client: BWS Baden-Württembergerische Steinbruchsbetriebe GmbH Co KG

2026 Moderation Workshop „What is more? Exploring Design Strategies and Methods based on Theories of Interconnectedness between Humans and Non-Humans“, mit A. Markuske, A. van der Kam, B. Hackenberger, B. Browne, C. Prego, L. Baretaud, ECLAS Conference 2026 Delft

2025 Participation „Bürgerdialog 2.0: Haindlfing“, for adribo GbR, Client: City of Freising

2025 Participation „Bürgerdialog 2.0: Haindlfing“, for adribo GbR, Client: City of Freising

2025 Participation „Bürgerdialog 2.0: Tüntenhausen“, for adribo GbR, Client: City of Freising

2025 Participation „Bürgerdialog 2.0: Sünzhausen“, for adribo GbR, Client: City of Freising

2025 Moderation Panel Discussion „GO wagnisWEST! Gendergerechte Planung – wie lässt sich ein besserer Freiraum für alle verwirklichen?”, Women in Architecture Festival, bdla Bayern, Munich

2025 Moderation Panel Discussion „What Women?! – Feministische Perspektiven auf Architektur, Stadt und Gesellschaft“ Women in Architecture Festival, TUM

2025 Participation „Perspektive Stadt: Freising What´s Next?“ for adribo GbR, Client: City of Freising

2024 Moderation Panel Discussion „Beyond Asphalt“, future.lab, TU Wien

2023 Moderation and Concept „Workshop: Co-creativity on Crossroads“ with Prof. Sonja Hörster, Prof. Dr. Henrik Schultz
ECLAS Conference 2023, Brno

2022 Participation, Walk, Online-Participation „Open Space Concept Hamburg Bergedorf-West“ Collaboration with PolinnaHauck, Steg Hamburg, amedida group, Client: City of Hamburg

2021 Moderation "Prinzenpost", with S. Wolff
Client: GeQo

2021 Mediation B, Munich, with N. Disko, SteG

2020 Participation "Holcim Sommerdialog - Dialoginsel Umwelt" Collaboration with Adribo Stuttgart, Dr. P. Selke and M. Weinkopf, Client: Holcim Germany

...and others...

Communication Trainings

2026 Seminar „Umgang mit Konfliktsituationen“, with M. Weinkopf, Client: Diakonie München und Oberbayern

2025 Seminar „Kommunikation zur Energiewende: Erfolgreiche Dialoge für eine nachhaltige Transformation“, with M. Weinkopf, Client: LENK - Landesagentur für Energie und Klimaschutz

2024 Seminar „Konfliktmanagement“, Client: Münchner Wohnen GmbH

2024 Seminar „Kommunikation und Umgang mit Konflikten“, with M. Weinkopf, Client: Wohnungsverein

2023 Seminar „Communication Training GWG“, with N. Disko Client: GWG municipal housing company, City of Munich SteG

2021 Seminar "Resolving Conflicts Constructively", Client: didactica, ETH Zürich, Uni Zürich

2020 Seminar "Integrated Discipline: Stakeholder Analysis", Client: Technical University of Munich

2020 Seminar "Team building", with S. Wolff
Client: Ingolstadt

2019 Seminar "Resolving Conflicts Constructively", with C. Guter
Client: AVETH ETH Zürich

2019 Seminar "Team building", with S. Wolff
Client: Ingolstadt

...and others...

Qualification

Certification as Mediator, 1.5-year extra occupational study program

Various professional development courses and training programs, including: "Dynamic Facilitation", "Organizational Development and Conflict Resolution“, "Conflict Management from a Neuroscientific Perspective", "Shuttle and Telephone Mediation", "Systemic Constellations in Mediation", "Intercultural Communication", "Facial Expression Recognition (Mimikresonanz)", "Futures Literacy", "Democracy Monitor 2026", and "Conflicts of Tomorrow: Raw Materials and CO₂ Infrastructure", among others.

2026 Ahn, Susann/Hauck, Thomas E./Jakoby, Christine (2026). Ko-kreatives Prototyping. In: Johanna Schoppengerd/Henrik Schultz (Eds.), Planen. Entwerfen. Umsetzen! (292-301). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839431184-292 Book DOI:https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839431184

2026 Jakoby, Christine / Hauck, Thomas E. / Ahn, Susann / Weisser, Wolfgang W.: “Ko-Habitation gestalten: Animal-Aided Design und partizipative Biodiversitätsförderung in München-Neuperlach”, In: Jahrbuch StadtRegion 2025/2026, Schwerpunkt: Naturen – Kulturen in Stadtregionen, edited by Güntner, S., Nuissl, H., Mölders, T., Othengrafen, F., Publisher: Springer Nature, Berlin. ISBN: 978-3-658-51483-9

2026 Haas, Mara / Ahn, Susann / Damjanovic, Dragana / Schneider, Ute / Damböck, Charlotte (eds.), Urban Bestandstransformationen. Prozesse des Lernens und Verlernens, Publisher: TU Wien Academic Press, Vienna, https://doi.org/10.34727/2026/

2026 Ahn, Susann: “Palimpsest of Heights”, In: State Fictions. Beyond Blossoms and Borders, edited by Bertschi, D., Curated by Hoffmann, C.; Tadeo, K. for the Swiss Pavillion at 16th Gwangju Biennale 2026, Korea, Publisher: Pro Helvetia

2026 Ahn, Susann / Grandel, Gunnar: “From Asphalt to Living Spaces: Learning Processes within Streetscape Transformations – Interview with Zala Velkavrh, Lisa Müller-Schober and Leon Legeland”, In: Urbane Bestandstransformationen. Prozesse des Lernens und Verlernens, edited by Haas, M.; Ahn, S.; Damjanovic, D.; Schneider, U.; Damböck, C., Publisher: TU Wien Academic Press, Vienna, pp. 159–171, https://doi.org/10.34727/2026/

2026 Urech, Philipp RW / Ahn, Susann / Lee, Yumi: “Accessing Idiosyncratic Modeling under Constraints in Landscape Architecture”, Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture 11-2026, pp.1041–1050, Wichmann Verlag, ISBN: 9783879077717

2025 Ahn, Susann / Knierbein, Sabine: “Sorge um und für ´den Bestand´”, In: Transformation des Bestandes, edited by D. Damjanovic, L. De Chiffre, M. Miessgang, H. Oevermann, J. Suitner, TU Wien Academic Press, Vienna, pp. 59–73, https://doi.org/10.34727/2025/isbn.978-3-85448-073-0_3

2024 Ahn, Susann / Hauck, Thomas E.: “Mediation. Kohabitation mediativ verhandeln”, In: Urbane Transformation durch Soziale Innovation, edited by Peer, C.; Semlitsch, E.; Güntner, S.; Haas, M.; Bernögger, A., TU Wien Academic Press, Vienna, pp. 161–167, https://doi.org/10.34727/2024/isbn.978-3-85448-064-8_20

2024 Bulawa, Bartlomiej / Ahn, Susann: “Landscape understanding and values in extended public consultations on spatial planning in rural communes in Poland”, Landscape Online, 99, 1124, https://doi.org/10.3097/LO.2024.1124

2024 Fricker, Pia / Wissen Hayek, Ulrike / Monacella, Rosalea / Ahn, Susann / Ervin, Stephen / Hensel, Michael / Rekittke, Jörg / Schroth, Olaf / Urech, Philipp R.W. / Vollmer, Matthias: “Inclusions – Landscape Narratives for Enhancing Landscape Architecture Pedagogy”, Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture 9-2024, pp. 948–957, https://doi:10.14627/537752089

2023 Catalano, Chiara / Hauck, Thomas E. / Ahn, Susann / Pasta, Salvatore: “Landscapes without landscape architects. The ecological beauty of informal urban landscapes”, AGATHÓN – International Journal of Architecture, Art and Design, DEMETRA, pp. 57–66, https://doi.org/10.19229/2464-9309/1342023

2023 Knierbein, Sabine / Ahn, Susann: “Urbane Alltagsräume zwischen Klima, Krise und Transformation”, Collage – Zeitschrift für Raumentwicklung 5/23, FSU, pp. 4–6.

2023 Drlik, Stephanie/ Ahn, Susann / Hauck, Thomas: "Das Extreme rüttelt auf! Interview von Stephanie Drlik mit Susann Ahn und Thomas E. Hauck", In: Zoll+ 42/2023

2023 "Podcast: A Palaver im Gespräch mit Susann Ahn und Thomas Hauck", Radiosendung und Podcast zu Themen der Architektur

2022 Ahn, Susann: "Divergent horizons",
In: Nodium 2023, TU München

2021 Raith, Erik / Ahn, Susann / Hauer, Friedrich / Madlyn, Miesgang: “Zwischen den Zeilen. Eine stadtmorphologische Untersuchung”, Study Report, City of Vienna, Magistratsabteilung 19, Architektur und Stadtgestaltung, Wien.

2019 Ahn, Susann: Cultural Laboratory Seoul. Emergence, Narrative and Impact of Culturally Related Landscape Meanings, Dissertation, ETH Research Collections, https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000415748

2019 Ahn, Susann: „Namsan and Yongsan - Landscape restoration as motor for urban change“, In: DOMUS KOREA 1/19,
ONE O ONE Verlag

2018 Ahn, Susann: „Aufgedeckte Geschichte“, in: Garten + Landschaft 11/18, Callwey Verlag

2017 Ahn, Susann: „Backflip - New Oerlikon Zurich“, in: Topos 100/2017,
Callwey Verlag

2017 Ahn, Susann / Lüdicke, Felix: “Von Freiraumintenanten und -aktivisten”, In: Aneignung urbaner Freiräume. Ein Diskurs über städtischen Raum, edited by Hauck, T. E.; Hennecke, S.; Körner, S., Publisher: Transcript, pp. 151–170. ISBN: 978-3-8376-3686-4

2017 Girot, Christophe / Ahn, Susann / Fehlmann, Isabelle / Mehling, Lara (Hgs.): Pamphlet 20 - Delta Dialogues, gta Verlag, ISBN 978-3-85676-368-8

...and others...

The aim of the research project is to explore thoroughly,
how cultural patterns and historical knowledge influence contemporary landscape design in Korea.

The dissertation Cultural Laboratory Seoul examines landscape restoration projects in the South Korean capital Seoul, which have influenced the urban fabric of the Korean capital since the 1980s. The landscape restoration projects have been supported by a paradigm shift from growth-oriented to environment-oriented approaches in Korean urban planning. In this context, the Seoul Metropolitan Government has sought means to convey traditional, historical and natural values through landscape restoration. In consequence, Seoul’s landscape elements—mountains, rivers, and valleys—have been cleared of apartment buildings and urban infrastructure, and afterwards have been greened. The challenge in many of these landscape restoration projects, however, has been to convey the traditional landscape meaning of these sites while meeting today’s landscape architectural standards and requirements as well as the needs of citizens. In order to gain a deeper understanding of how to deal with these challenges, the dissertation examines existing landscape restoration projects such as the restoration of Namsan (1990–2000), the restoration of Naksan (1997–2002), and the restoration of Inwangsan’s Suseongdong Valley (2007–2012). As a result, the dissertation first outlines the social, political, and cultural contexts from which the trend towards landscape restoration has emerged and answers the question of why restoration has become a popular landscape approach in Korean urban planning and landscape architecture. Second, the dissertation analyzes how culturally rooted landscape concepts are translated into the present. By comparing the intertextuality of the landscape—related exhibitions, planning documents, and information brochures—with interviews of municipal officials, practitioners, artists, and citizens affected by the projects, the thesis identifies the transmission, erasure and the reinterpretation of distinct landscape meanings and concepts. The tensions between national and local narratives imbedded in the sites are revealed, especially as related to power structures and prevalent ideologies. Third, the dissertation clarifies the relationship between the narrative, the built space, and the visitor’s perception. It explains how the acceptance and appropriation of these projects is influenced by a complex web of meanings, resources, and conflicts grounded upon different cultural and historical interpretations. On this basis, this dissertation argues for a mediating approach in landscape architecture that includes culturally related landscape understandings in the design for the creation of a spatial identity.

Supervisor: Prof. Christophe Girot, ETH Zürich
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Sung Hong Kim, University of Seoul
Project Funding/Scholarship: Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF and DARCH ETH, 2016–2019
Academic Publication: ETH Research Collection, 2019