{"id":1255,"date":"2021-10-06T11:48:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T09:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b9yfmxx.myraidbox.de\/?post_type=fellow&p=1255"},"modified":"2025-08-13T11:14:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:14:26","slug":"matthew-gandy","status":"publish","type":"fellow","link":"https:\/\/hias-hamburg.de\/en\/fellow\/matthew-gandy\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Gandy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Matthew Gandy joined the University of Cambridge in 2015, having previously worked at University College London and the University of Sussex. From 2005 till 2011 he was founder and director of the UCL Urban Laboratory and has been a visiting professor at a number of universities including the Technical University Berlin, the University of the Arts Berlin, and UCLA. His interests span biodiversity, infrastructure, landscape, urban epidemiology and visual methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His books include The fabric of space: water, modernity, and the urban imagination<\/em> (MIT Press, 2014), Moth<\/em> (Reaktion, 2016), and Natura urbana: ecological constellations in urban space<\/em> (MIT Press, 2022). He has published essays in a range of journals including New Left Review<\/em> and is an award-winning documentary filmmaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During his fellowship at HIAS he will be exploring the idea of \u201curban refugia\u201d in relation to three main facets of urban biodiversity: mass invertebrate decline, including the evaluation of different forms of endangerment in urban settings; the significance of migratory pathways for urban birds and the impact of displaced temporalities and landscape change over different geographical scales; and the presence of relic floras within metropolitan areas that form part of an ecological palimpsest that can enrich public cultures of urban nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His collaboration partner is J\u00fcrgen O\u00dfenbr\u00fcgge, professor of urban and economic geography at the University of Hamburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew Gandy\u2019s HIAS Fellowship is provided by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and the federal and state funds acquired by the University of Hamburg in the framework of its Excellence Strategy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Matthew Gandy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The University of Hamburg<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Prof. Dr. J\u00fcrgen O\u00dfenbr\u00fcgge<\/a>, Professor for Economy Geography at the University of Hamburg and chairman at the Geographische Gesellschaft in Hamburg<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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F\u00f6rderung durch das Bundesministerium f\u00fcr Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) sowie der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg im Rahmen der Exzellenzstrategie von Bund und L\u00e4ndern der Universit\u00e4t Hamburg<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fu\u00dfg\u00e4ngerweg in der N\u00e4he des \u201cRiver Lea\u201d, East London, 25 August 2021.  Photo: Matthew Gandy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Lectures and Events (excerpt)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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06\/15\/2023, Panel: Globalized Nature, Ecology, and the Future City: Learning from Berlin<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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05\/16\/2022, Urban Roundtable<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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04\/18\/2023, Winner, John Brickerhoff Jackson Book Prize, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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04\/07\/2022, Book Launch: \u201cNatura Urbana\u201d by Matthew Gandy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Publications in the Fellows Library<\/h2>\n\n\n\n