Professor Katrin Bohn

Short CV

Katrin Bohn is an architect and urban practitioner who's work on productive urban landscapes stretches from research and design research to design projets and their physical implementation. She has 15 years of academic experience and is currently a senior lecturer in architecture at the University of Brighton. Between 2010 and 2014, she held a guest professorship at the Technical University in Berlin where she set up and headed the Department City & Nutrition.
Together with André Viljoen, Katrin has taught, lectured, published and exhibited widely on the design concept of CPUL City (Continuous Productive Urban Landscape) which they contributed to the international urban design discourse in 2004.

Katrin is the co-author and co-editor of four books, as well as of numerous peer-reviewed book chapters, articles and papers on planning and design strategies for integrating urban agriculture into contemporary cities. Her research work has won several awards, such as the UNESCO's 'Contribution to the UN World Decade of Education for Sustainable Development' Award and the ' Environment Prize' of the Berlin borough of Marzahn-Hellersdorf (both 2014). Her co-edited/-authored book Second Nature Urban Agriculture (Routledge 2014) has been shortlisted for the Royal Institute of British Architects' (RIBA) 'President's Medal for outstanding university-located research', as had her co-authored book Continuous Productive Urban Landscape (Architectural Press 2005) in 2005. Katrin's practice-based research has attracted external funding since 2005 and resulted in more than 20 live projects and exhibitions in the UK, mainland Europe and America.

Since 2010, Katrin is part of the steering committee for the annual international AESOP Sustainable Food Planning conferences. She has acted as adviser or consultant to several public institutions and authorities on questions of sustainable urban space production in relation to food and has been the evaluator of 5 large-scale European urban agriculture research projects.